Your Doctor Prescribes SSRIs. He Has No Idea What They Actually Do.
In a Nutshell
SSRIs, prescribed based on short 12-week trials ignoring long-term use (average 5 years), cause severe protracted withdrawal in many—lasting years, destroying lives—due to pharma's failure to study off-target effects and the drug's disruption of serotonin's true role in coordinating mitochondrial oxygen adaptations across lungs, gut, and breathing. Serotonin primarily manages hypoxia responses (e.g., directing blood flow, boosting respiration during exercise or waking), not mood, making initial SSRI benefits (like easier breathing) deceptive before chronic harm. Long-term users face catastrophically harder discontinuation after years, with 38% of 1-year users unable to quit, exposing conventional medicine's flawed reliance on inadequate RCTs.
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Speaker expresses concern that dad's symptoms resemble previous neurological damage that flared up without a medication trigger. Dad is careful with health except for heavy work. People on SSRIs or benzodiazepines report symptoms returning from original neurological injury. Questions why some experience severe protracted withdrawal, getting very sick when stopping, lasting years for some, while others do not.
Average doctor prescribing SSRIs relies on randomized controlled trials showing withdrawal problems are rare, benign, and quickly self-resolving. Average person on SSRIs for 5 years, but almost all trials are 12 weeks or shorter. Only one placebo-controlled trial is 1 year long; no trials at 5 years.
Observational literature surveying withdrawal problems shows worse outcomes at 1 year than 12 weeks. Getting off harder after 2 years; catastrophically harder after 5, 8, 11, or 12 years. Among people on SSRIs for at least 1 year, 38% tried to get off and went back on because they couldn't.
Conventional medicine's description of the problem is a scam: trials not long enough, but designed that way. Cannot generalize 12-week trial to 5-year experience, similar to high-dose fish oil looking great at 12 weeks but not at 4-6 years. Many never go off; those who do not taken seriously. Comments from people whose lives were destroyed (lost marriage, job, everything), but no one believes them. Principal problem is long-term use.
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