Psychiatric medication
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Sep 18, 2026
Ashley IaconettiADVERTISER
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Janet VarneyHOST
Yeah, this is kind of talking about, again, the big questions around and the issues around medications and how that plays into birth defects and the worry of the concern of that.
Janet VarneyHOST
And, you know, psychiatric medications for women of any age or stage, but especially in the postpartum period, even more if breastfeeding was continued fairly recently, all these things can cause hormonal shifts.
Janet VarneyHOST
And that is... every single person and mind and body is different.
Janet VarneyHOST
Now I am sort of paraphrasing.
Bob RuffHOST
Part of that is I've never personally experienced any of that.
Bob RuffHOST
I've been lucky in that regard.
Bob RuffHOST
But I have people very close to me that have had to deal with, you know, different psychiatric medications.
David WayneGUEST
I forget exactly what it's called.
David WayneGUEST
It's like the Citizen Review Board for Psychotropic Meds at the FDA for the last couple decades because of what happened to her husband.
David WayneGUEST
It was so egregious.
David WayneGUEST
Actually, a lot of the information that we have about how bastardly Pfizer was regarding Zaloft is because of her lawsuit against them.
Josef Witt-DoerringGUEST
Sure.
Josef Witt-DoerringGUEST
So starting with the chemical imbalance, it is the most overstated cause of depression and anxiety and so let's just start there because that's what 80% of psychiatric drugs are being prescribed for depression and anxiety and now most people may be a little shocked to hear that genetic factors really don't account for that much depression even though that's what we've been hearing for the last 30 years and the reason you've been hearing that is overstating the role of genetics has been a goal of the pharmaceutical industry.
Josef Witt-DoerringGUEST
Just bear with me now.
Josef Witt-DoerringGUEST
If it sounds like I'm wearing a bit of a tin hat here, the logic is essentially if you are selling drugs that help this condition, it behooves you to sort of present the condition in a very medical way, in a very biological and genetic way, because it positions your cure essentially as the one that's more logical.
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Mike VeraHOST
I can't imagine that there's that much research funding into something like exercise with regard to depression, at least compared to the pharmaceuticals, as you highlighted there.
Mike VeraHOST
So I guess, is
Josef Witt-DoerringGUEST
psychiatry redeemable? Well, for the audience, I would say the first thing to realize is that it's a rotten situation and that you should be looking at the pharmaceutical industry and psychiatric drugs with a lot of skepticism.
Josef Witt-DoerringGUEST
That's the first step to doing well.
Sasha Altman DeBruleGUEST
I mean, you know, I'm a good person to ask about it just because we started the Icarus Project in 2002 and that just happened to coincide with like, oh my God, the drastic rise in bipolar diagnoses, you know? And for me, I think one of the things that I...
Sasha Altman DeBruleGUEST
I bring to the table you know in these conversations it's just that I spent so many years talking to so many people about their different like people who came to the Icarus project as they were looking for support and it became so clear that my experience with psych drugs that I've talked about to you today is just so different than a lot of other people and that there's like a lot of people that fucking shouldn't be on the drugs that they're on, you know, obviously.
Sasha Altman DeBruleGUEST
And I don't know, that's like kind of the spirit of the harm reduction guide to coming off of psych drugs.
Sasha Altman DeBruleGUEST
I mean, I think that there's a lot of people who end up on these drugs and then have a hard time getting off of them, you know? And
Early BrunnerHOST
yeah, I think it's like...