Anti-Depressants: Euphoria, Sorrow & Science.

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antidepressants I was completely wholeheartedly against them but then I learned that they're actually wonderful and saved my life I mean it's ironic when you think about it isn't it that a drug that's marketed as an antidepressant has a side effect of suicide to take the irony further now the FDA's new label warnings and the Canadian we'd like my books view 10 years ago that these drugs produce anxiety insomnia over stimulation impulsivity aggressivity hostility and Oh general worsening of their condition 15 years ago I warned the FDA and I warned the country and toxic psychiatry that antidepressants were causing a stimulant amphetamine like syndrome that was resulting in violence and murder in 1994 and talking back to prozac I warned the country in the FDA again this time with tons now scientific data on the same issues during that period of time I was asked to be and this is very relevant to deliberations the scientific investigator for all of the combined Prozac suits almost 200 of them so I got to look at all the sealed data that Eli Lilly Lilly didn't want anybody else to see so about 20 books later now and a few dozen scientific studies and innumerable innumerable product liability suits where I've looked at sealed data I've come to tell you that you're evaluating junk you're evaluating carefully edited expurgated data that I've seen and you haven't this is a most remarkable circumstance the first few weeks I was on antidepressants I spent every car I just like laughing by myself so I was like oh my god I spent my whole life not knowing what this feels like and what we find is that it's that initial few weeks when the drug has the most impact but once I went on antidepressants and it worked instantaneously I felt happiness for the first time and I was so and I was like wow I really needed this I do actually have an imbalance in my brain we don't have any evidence that any routine psychiatric problem from anxiety to depression and even schizophrenia has anything to do with a biochemical imbalance stabilize your chemical imbalance so where did an idea like that come from we know the answer it was actually made up by the brilliant minds that the drug company Eli Lilly even before prozac was approved for depression by the FDA Lilly was sending its minions it's paid physicians and consultants out into the world to say that depression was caused by a biochemical imbalance and in particular a kind of sluggish serotonin neurotransmitter just not enough serotonin working but Lilly knew from the beginning that it wasn't very simple that this drug prozac wasn't exactly going to jack up your serotonin like it was supposed to the whole idea behind prozac was that it would block the removal of serotonin from those active places in your brain called the synapses so here's the other cell and it's picking up serotonin and then comes prozac and it blocks the removal of the serotonin from this space and that's supposed to mean you're going to puddle serotonin you're going to increase serotonin in the synapse well in fact and Lilly knew this knew this before the drug was approved the brain doesn't like to have the serotonin puddling in its synapses and the brain responds by stopping producing serotonin it responds by increasing its ability to remove serotonin it responds by becoming less sensitive to serotonin so from the beginning it was a flim-flam it was a PR claim that you got biochemical and back balances and pros X gonna fix it so what do you conclude from this people who have emotional problems you may we all have emotional problems we don't have anything wrong in our brains and if we do if someday some of these problems turn out to be caused by something going on in our brains rather than in our lives in our emotions in our hearts in our feelings if it turns out to be so then psychiatric drugs aren't fixing them because psychiatric drugs are causing biochemical imbalances in your brain yes I am on antidepressants I have been for about a month and a half and my life has absolutely changed like more than I ever expected when you're on them you don't appreciate their harmful effects anxiety insomnia over stimulation impulsivity aggressivity hostility and Oh general worsening of their condition if you do begin to become upset or disturbed on a drug let's say you're taking xanax or you're taking an antidepressant you start getting irritable and angry and you yell at your family you're not likely to think it's the drug you're likely to think it's my wife or my husband or the kids or the boss or the job you won't get straight that you've been changed by the drug when I went on antidepressants for the first time I felt for the first time what stability felt like antidepressants some actually do help with anxiety so that has been the most amazing improvement for me I barely have any anxiety anymore you might think you're feeling better than ever when you're doing worse than ever and this is common this is really common it's related somewhat to the feeling of you for you I'm so happy if you for you which is one gets from cocaine around and can't often also get from the antidepressants and that sense of feeling better than ever is as I mentioned in one of my earlier reports one of the most dangerous places you can get the psychoactive substance is by diminishing our capacity by impairing our frontal lobes prevent us from appreciating their harmful effects that's why somebody can feel like they can drive better than ever and you know if they get in the car they're likely to kill themselves or someone else I feel so called I know I feel like this psychoactive substances impair our judgement about their effects on us this video needs to be made especially if we want to reach the goal of releasing that social stigma about mental health and making it more normalized normalizing depression is not the same thing as normalizing the treatment of depression this word normalized is so slippery it's so misleading are you really trying to normalize the experience of human sorrow anxiety misery suffering which is indeed as you say normal is indeed part of the human condition or are you trying to normalize a drug-induced euphoria and then contrasting that to human suffering unhappiness and sorrow with the claim that any experience of that kind can be medicalised can be treated as abnormal can be treated as an illness an illness that has never been proven to exist by medical science on the basis of a chemical imbalance that is no noun to be fictitious that always was fictitious by mustering together already debunked and approved disproven junk science from the 1990s what is it really that you're trying to normalize I'm so happy it feels so-called so about twenty books later now and a few dozen scientific studies and innumerable innumerable product liability suits or I've looked at sealed data I've come to tell you that you are evaluating junk normalizing human misery suffering and sorrow is the opposite of medicalizing it treating it as a diagnosable condition that can be remedied with a pill that has been in the last 20 years more thoroughly debunked than anything else on the psychiatrist's shelf antidepressants are a debunked fad drug from the 1990s people like you think you're doing something morally positive in normalizing them but you're not what your normalizing is junk science but new gel