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Kelly Brogan
three times more likely than the untreated individuals to suffer a “cessation” of their “principal social role,” meaning that they function less optimally.
“Wholesale imperial medicalization of normality that will trivialize mental disorder and lead to a deluge of unneeded medication treatment—a
that more serotonin—not less—is released and used during depressive episodes.
This natural surge of serotonin helps the brain adapt to depression; it forces the body to spend more energy on conscious thought than to areas such as growth, development, reproduction, immune function, and the stress response.
most forms of depression are normal adaptations to stress.
when patients on SSRI medication improve, it appears that their brains are actually overcoming the effects of antidepressants, rather than being helped by them.
in the first twelve years after its initial marketing blitz, Prozac was named in more than 40,000 reports of adverse effects submitted to the FDA.25 No other drug comes close to such a history.
Even if we accepted the proposition that these drugs are helpful for some people, extrapolating a medical cause from this observation would be akin to saying that shyness is caused by a deficiency of alcohol, or that headaches are caused by a lack of codeine.
“What physicians and the public are reading about mental illness is by no means a neutral reflection of all the information that is available.”
I look for problems like nutrient deficiencies, endocrine disruption, and autoimmunity.
dietary modification, thyroid treatment, and addressing their sleep habits during this period
including complicated withdrawal routinely dismissed by their prescribing clinicians.
But now we’ve identified microglia—billions of cells that play a specific role in managing inflammatory responses in the brain based on perceived threats from the rest of the body.56
Paroxetine (Paxil) was found to be the worst, but all the SSRI antidepressants were documented as causing a wide range of withdrawal symptoms from dizziness, electrical shock sensations,
disparate expressions of a body struggling to adapt to a stressor.
There are times in our evolution as a cultural species that we need to unlearn what we know and change what we think is true.
For this reason, honoring our coevolution with the natural world and sending the body a signal of safety through movement, diet, meditation, and environmental detoxification represents our most primal and most powerful
