How much testing has been done for SSRIs with long-term use?

The average length of a trial is about six to eight weeks that tests the safety and efficacy.

One of the ambient trials that the drug was approved on the basis of was one night.

Whatever the drug class is, whether it's SSRI, SNRI, M-A-O-I, tricyclic, antipsychotic, benzodiazepine, Z drug, stimulant.

They are all approved on the basis of

short-term trials. It is literally an experiment to take these drugs long term. Imagine if Taylor Swift

would have been put on an SSRI as a teenager. If she would have been numbed out by Lexapro,

we would not have this level of art that we have from her.

Angry teenage girls aren't meant to be sitting in front of their screens in a dark room.

On the internet, they're meant to be experimenting with fashion and painting and music.

They're meant to be channeling their emotions into art. Laura Dellen Laura Delano spent 14 years inside the psychiatric system, diagnosed, medicated, hospitalized, told her brain was fundamentally broken before realizing the symptoms that she thought proved she was mentally ill might actually

have been caused by the drugs themselves. And once you hear what happened to Laura after trying

to get off antidepressants, you start looking at America's so-called mental health crisis very

differently. Laura Delano is a speaker, founder of Intercompass Initiative, and author of Unshrunk.

But this conversation goes way beyond,

are antidepressants bad? What Laura is really challenging is the entire modern identity framework

around suffering. You know, this idea that every painful emotion, every season of despair,

every uncomfortable human experience must automatically be labeled a disorder and

medically managed forever. We talk about what happens when children are taught their brains

are defective, why getting off SSRIs can sometimes take years, whether withdrawal is being

mistaken for relapse, and how an entire generation may have built identities around diagnoses

that they were never meant to carry

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