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\nThere Are Ways to Get Through the Jungle of Depression
\n(Photo by Joyce Thiel)<\/em><\/p>\n

COGwriter<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is an article about antidepressant medications:<\/p>\n

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What Everyone Needs to Know About Antidepressants<\/h2>\n

January 4, 2026<\/p>\n

\u2022SSRI antidepressants are one of the most harmful medications on the market, and because of just how many people they are given to (often for no good reason as only a minority of patients benefit from SSRIs) they have had a profound effect on the consciousness of our entire society.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022This article will review some of the more common side effects of SSRIs (and SNRIs), such as becoming numb to life, becoming severely agitated and imbalanced (sometimes to the point one becomes violently psychotic), losing your mind, losing the ability to have sex, and the development of birth defects.<\/p>\n

\u2022Unfortunately, due to widespread denial in psychiatry about the issues with their drugs the common SSRI side effects are often misinterpreted as a sign the individual had a pre-existing mental illness and needs more of the drug\u2014which all too often then leads to catastrophic events for the over-medicated patient.<\/p>\n

\u2022Like many other stimulant drugs (e.g., cocaine) SSRIs can be highly addictive. Because of this, patients frequently get severely ill when they attempt to stop them (withdrawals affect roughly half of SSRI users) and it is often extremely difficult to withdraw from them and very few doctors know how to safely facilitate this. …<\/p>\n

One of the lesser known facts about the pharmaceutical industry is that more money is spent marketing drugs than developing them (this was even the case during COVID<\/a> when the industry had been given a virtual monopoly because the government suppressed every off-patent medication).<\/p>\n

In turn, you will frequently observe the industry concoct elaborate ways to make a useless (or worse) drug appear to be worth selling to all of America … https:\/\/www.midwesterndoctor.com\/p\/what-everyone-needs-to-know-about<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, antidepressant medications have issues. The BBC<\/em> posted the following this past Fall:<\/p>\n

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Effects of antidepressants on physical health ranked for first time<\/h2>\n

22 October 2025<\/p>\n

Side effects of different antidepressants have been ranked for the first time, revealing huge differences between drugs.<\/p>\n

Academics looked at the impact medications had on patients in the first eight weeks after starting treatment, with some causing patients to gain up to 2kg in weight or vary heart rate by as much as 21 beats every minute.<\/p>\n

Around eight million people in the UK take antidepressants.<\/p>\n

Researchers warned the gulf in side effects could affect people’s health and whether they could stick to their prescription. …<\/p>\n

The team analysed 151 studies of 30 drugs commonly used in depression, involving more than 58,500 patients.<\/p>\n

Not everybody develops side effects but, on average, the results published in the Lancet medical journal<\/a> showed:<\/p>\n