THE DARK SIDE OF ANTIDEPRESSANTS
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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launches a sweeping new push targeting antidepressant dependency, informed consent, and the growing fallout surrounding SSRIs. Jefferey Jaxen investigates the alarming questions regulators ignored for decades and why one of the most controversial conversations in medicine is suddenly exploding into the mainstream.
AIRDATE: May 14, 2026
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My mom wanted me to go on SSRIs at a very young age. My parents divorced and I developed OCD. My dad wouldn’t let her put me on the medications. Fast forward 30 years later and she lived on these meds for decades. She went off them in her late 60s cold turkey. She didn’t sleep for years. She generally would not get one minute of sleep every other night for 5-7 years. She now has lewy body dementia/parkinson’s and although she had other environmental exposures like herbicides and many solvents I think this for sure played a role. I am so thankful I never took this poison. As I grew up and went from an all processed food diet my parents fed me to a whole organic food diet and very low dose lithium orotate my OCD has pretty much disappeared.
I was put on Ativan and after a few Months asked how to get off them. I was told to take 1/2 of one, It did not work as I was not able to sleep for days and had anxiety and heart palpitations for days. She had me go to a Psych pharma doctor who just wanted to put me on more drugs, I sent her the Ashton Protocol and she of course never heard of that! Had to figure it out on my own!
I want to add that the Spring 2026 issue of Homeopathy Today contains an article about weaning a client off of SSRIs successfully with homeopathy. Check it out!