i’ve had a really bad time on all the brain pills i’ve been proscribed and we might literally be completely backwards wrong about how SSRIs work. RFK isn’t doing anything right but the status quo of prescribing stuff that we don’t know how it works to treat conditions we don’t understand very well is also bad and correcting the latter might look like not prescribing stuff as much.
I agree that certain antidepressants are downright dangerous (I tried Effexor once, never again)
But in saying that, making medication harder to access in general, even ones that could really help people is just going to lead to people being denied the ones that don’t suck too. You know what these institutions are like, they’ll tar every medication with the same brush and make important treatments too hard for most people to access
yeah you can’t have a blanket policy like he wants to do. stimulants are currently egregiously limited in the US and people can’t even get what they’ve been prescribed
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i’ve had a really bad time on all the brain pills i’ve been proscribed and we might literally be completely backwards wrong about how SSRIs work. RFK isn’t doing anything right but the status quo of prescribing stuff that we don’t know how it works to treat conditions we don’t understand very well is also bad and correcting the latter might look like not prescribing stuff as much.
I agree that certain antidepressants are downright dangerous (I tried Effexor once, never again)
But in saying that, making medication harder to access in general, even ones that could really help people is just going to lead to people being denied the ones that don’t suck too. You know what these institutions are like, they’ll tar every medication with the same brush and make important treatments too hard for most people to access
yeah you can’t have a blanket policy like he wants to do. stimulants are currently egregiously limited in the US and people can’t even get what they’ve been prescribed