The government, RJK Jr. said, would “assess the prevalence of and threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, [and] mood stabilizers.”
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RFK may be half a moron, but not every move he makes threatens U.S. health. Overmedication and antidepressant addiction are real issues worth examining.
Most folks are on these antidepressants as a matter of life and death. The withdrawal symptoms alone can be debilitating. I doubt they feel as if they are abusing them!
As a psychotherapist I am very concerned that he is actually perpetuating the suffering of people living with depression and stigma around SSRI’s. There is so much misinformation about antidepressants already, when in reality SSRI’s are life saving medications and safe.
So true. The last thing vulnerable people need is their government to make problems worse than they already are. They need understanding and compassionate care, not shame and misinformation.
Next thing you know Kennedy will be calling for the creation of horrifying insane asylums complete with straight jackets as replacements for antidepressants and antipsychotics.
Epileptic here. I'm on lamotrigine. It's one of the most prescribed mood stabilizers. It's also an anti-seizure drug. I can guarantee you that if these morons restrict access to it, they won't care about the anti-seizure uses. In the same way that red states don't care about methotrexate.
Hmmm I wonder when the people who voted for trump will understand the error of their ways. First Medicaid gets severely cut, then they lose coverage for their meds. OOPS
I have a friend that gave up heroin. And she is my hero. Heroin is on of the most addictive drugs out there and most people don't successfully give it up.
Making fun of someone who is able to quit an addiction is petty and mean spirited.
If RFK,Jr were not such a mendacious, entitled dimwit, he could start by reading the medical literature, or perhaps speaking with physicians and scientists to learn something about which he knows nothing.
RFK Jr. is projecting. But if you want to see a bunch of violent addicts take everyone off their antipsychotics. This is incredibly dangerous. He is a menace to the health of Americans.
Because many people are violent or suicidal who aren’t on psych meds. I have worked in both state mental healthcare and prison healthcare and it’s true. If someone is having psychotic thoughts they can often lead to violence.
Or if someone such as severely autistic people that have duel diagnosis will lash out violently in fear, pushing, biting, etc. They can and do hurt people if not properly medicated.
Others with mental health issues use street drugs to “self medicate.” So taking psych meds from people can and will result in disastrous consequences for many people who need them.
I eat so well it’s almost embarrassing. Next to zero sugar. Tons of veggies, roasted chicken, bone marrow. The who deal. I also exercise on the regular. Still need adhd meds like everyone else in my family. God this is so dumb.
He's passed an Executive Order that will lead directly to the deaths of US citizens. His HHS Secretary has haulted coverage of SSRIs via Medicaid, which will, again, lead directly to the deaths of US citizens.
Many who utilize antidepressants will engage in what is referred to behaviorally as 1/5
. . . social dropout when they lose access to antidepressants. This is a group of behaviors. It could look like self-isolation, excessive sleeping, low levels of self-care (think not showering for days or weeks, wearing dirty laundry, etc), and culminate in suicide. 2/5
Individuals already prone to violence will be more likely to engage in acts of aggression towards others.
Officer involved shootings involving the disabled community will see a sharp increase as our police force is simply NOT equipped to handle mentally ill or disabled individuals. 3/5
. . .and more common among the global majority than white folk, these labor camps will be full of those deemed "undesirable" by the current administration.
WTF! It’s been a life line for my family! For those whose lives it has dramatically helped, do we need to go there & describe the crap before the meds?
Passing moral judgment against mental illness, like RFK does, is repulsive.
Withholding suitable medication is a direct incitement to violence, be it against oneself or against others. Every suicide by a depression sufferer is a direct result of this depravity.
Targeting and undercutting a major medication that has been a great deterrent against keeping folk from propaganda of the deeding elitists is, I'm sure, going to go really well.
This is not going to be any scientific study at all.
Bobby Brain Worm has already dictated what he wants the "findings" to be. Anyone who does any actual science will be fired.
The issue with this thought is that nearly all of the prescriptions are controlled substances. I am only allowed 30 days supply at a time of 4 different medications because they are controlled. There's no option to stockpile.
Not exactly. That’s your insurance. Insurance doesn’t want to pre-pay for any more medications than they have to. Most meds you can buy more than just 30 day supply, but have to pay out of pocket rate.
To my knowledge only ADHD drugs and opioids have laws regarding refill timeline.
Like if you’re going out of town and want to get more than 30 day supply, you can buy it, depending on drug, but you have to pay for it, not insurance.
I understand that. I'm on 7 daily prescriptions (not mentioning my prns). But 4 of them are controlled substances and are not allowed to be filled more than 30 days supply. Yeah, the others are insurance limit though.
He’s not a doctor so why is he running something he knows nothing about? Talk about dei hires when he puts unqualified people in. I don’t want to hear from another republican who said we had him before so we know what to expect. Yeah, one million dead.
How dare he dismiss the science and research about antidepressants; reading from Presidential Actions and subsequent Fact Sheet from The White House; the Make America Healthy Again Commission is pretty terrifying and is typical of this trump mess.
Yep, and fucking all of us over. Some of us are just trying to live. And without prescriptions that are helping us get to the next day, we will stop getting to the next day. They don’t care.
Some of these are used to treat other diseases like osteoarthritis because they occupy the receptor site, preventing the inflammation from occurring in the joint
I know several non-violent people who had a violent reaction to anti-spasticity drugs prescribed for a back injury.
People with different genes react in different ways. A heart drug that doesn't work at all for Europeans works well for Africans. Ignoring genetic differences is harmful.
RFKj is exploiting people who have been harmed when they stopped taking anti-depressants. If he was serious, he would be looking into research from 2020 forward coming out of the UK and NHS about the need for tapering support and physician education, not drug bans. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-65825012
There's issues with this, even. I stopped taking antidepressants for years, but because I had several episodes of depression over my life, it led to chronic depression.
I managed without a prescription for a bit, but living with chronic pain took its toll.
Additionally, SNRIs are used to treat pain. For those of us with chronic pain, they have far fewer side effects than other prescriptions we might be prescribed, and they help with any co-occurring depression we may experience. But they ARE a lifetime prescription. 2/2
I don't condone violence. If someone is pissed off let them take their grievances out on the person causing the problem. Better than them targeting school children. Just my thought.
My 30 year old autistic daughter has been on an SSRI for 23 years now. She's never experienced a problem with taking it, only with NOT taking it. SSRIs can be a life saver for some people. 💙
Stimulants. FYI, stimulants are also used to treat sleep disorders like Narcolepsy. Without them, we can not remain awake. We can't safely drive, work, or manage our lives.
They make ADHD manageable, sure, but they make the lives of Narcoleptics liveable.
Yes, but if TRUMP makes it illegal again, there won't be medial cards OR grower's licenses.
We'd be going back to the days where people grew it illegally.
I'm SURE it's not a leprosy or extermination camp model! it's just a happy place where you leave your job & family & stop taking your meds to live on a commune and eat happy corn.nothing to see here
I don’t know about you, but I take prescription meds for anxiety and depression. To remove my meds would make me a non-functioning member of society. For some, this would push them into ERs, hospitalization, prison, and acts of suicide.
I have two very close family members who could not function on a day to day basis and spent many many months in mental hospitals, each, before going on the right medications for them. They are both currently thriving. RFK Jr has no clue wtf he's doing!
Perhaps RFK Jr is confusing these psych meds with the heroin, cocaine, pot & various other psychedelic street drugs he was addicted to for years.. Drugs which likely destroyed whatever remaining brain cells his brain worm had not yet dined on..
Like everything about RFK Jr these claims are bullshit
He's right about corrupt pharm companies but the issue is they always have a goal of money on their mind with lawsuits as a reason why they'd hate and also best interest in who they're in stock market with. So they'll only call out for reasons to make money for them, it's never about helping
The pharmaceutical industry has been ridiculously quiet about RFK. Wondering when they will speak up? Pharma never lets anyone get in the way of record profits.
Generic drugs are a fantastic option, if they work for you in your disease state. Unfortunately the top selling drugs have a ridiculously long patent life cycle, therefore no generic option any time soon.
#NaziAmerica
People on Mental Health treatment plans are about to be rounded up by the US Nazi Regime and put into forced labor camps as so ordered by RFK Jr.-MotherJones.com
Measles!!!!!!!!!
blindness
encephalitis (an infection causing brain swelling)
severe diarrhoea and related dehydration
ear infections
severe breathing problems pneumonia.
pregnancy, this can be dangerous for the mother and can result in her baby being born prematurely with a low birth weight.
It's going to be for all of us disabled folk before he's done. Although, to be honest, depression is higher in the disabled community than in the abled community, so we're pretty much all going to be there anyway . . .
Oh, there won't be pay. Inmates will receive ever-decreasing portions of spoiled food, until they starve to death or die of a malnutrition-related illness.
These are going to be for-profit concentration camps, you see.
I am a clinical psychologist and I can tell you if he messes with those medications, the suicide rate will sky rocket. These medications allow people to live normal productive lives.
Now THAT is a far more valid concern than all these folks fear-mongering about us disabled folk going on killing sprees.
I don't know if SNRIs will be targeted, but that's what I take. It's not just for depression. It manages my pain as well. So I'll be really screwed if I lose it.
It is difficult for the federal government to investigate the “root causes” of anything without expert research, which they are defunding and de-staffing.
You're banking on the "research" being done to follow the accepted normal practices. Any research that comes out of this administration will need to be put under a microscope.
They'll likely have a few scientology "researchers" to help with mental disorder root causes.
Maybe they can unbind the study by giving the placebo ground the medication too. Just like was done for the Covid vaccines. You gotta know that was government efficiency at its finest.
Yes. There's already SCADS of research about this stuff. Nobody went to their houses and shouted it at them through a Joe Rogan podcast though so it isn't "reputable" or something.
There's a conspiracy theory among right-wing circles that antidepressants/SSRIs are responsible for mass shooting, but what they don't realize is that all of the spree shooters stopped taking their medication prior to it.
Antidepressants make it possible for me to live a relatively normal life. When I don’t take them, I become a raging maniac. If RFK jr makes it impossible for me to take the medication I need to function, I will likely do something drastic. F that guy.
It's the only thing I agree with this jerk about. Antidepressants are dangerous. They are prescribed for people with anxiety and they do bad things to these people. Take away libido. Reduce optimism. Inhibit joy and sensuality. These drugs may work for some people but they also damage others.
You clearly don’t have any personal relationships with people who suffer from depression. I agree that all meds have risks but you’re just asking for suicide rates to go up.
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"Oh, you have a mood disorder? You're going to get violent without your medication!!"
No. Actually, I'll probably just stop getting out of bed and eventually kill myself, but thanks.
This seems like they want more mass shootings.
She lives a normal happy everyday life..tgst woukd not be the case without…😔😢
And to have a heroin addict say this..is just abominable.
Making fun of someone who is able to quit an addiction is petty and mean spirited.
Why would anyone convince a bunch of poor folk prone to illness that vaccines are bad unless they wanted to "cull the herd"?
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title18/part1/chapter115&edition=prelim
Many who utilize antidepressants will engage in what is referred to behaviorally as 1/5
Officer involved shootings involving the disabled community will see a sharp increase as our police force is simply NOT equipped to handle mentally ill or disabled individuals. 3/5
As depression is far more common among the disabled community than the regular population, more common among women than men, LGBTQ, than not . . . 4/5
How long do you think we'll be permitted to live?
5/5
He is such a brain damaged wastoid.
Withholding suitable medication is a direct incitement to violence, be it against oneself or against others. Every suicide by a depression sufferer is a direct result of this depravity.
Might be a real alternative to his organic labour camps.
Bobby Brain Worm has already dictated what he wants the "findings" to be. Anyone who does any actual science will be fired.
Can't imagine how that could go wrong.
What did everyone do when they thought there might be a shortage of toilet paper?
Now do eggs.
Now do drugs.
RFK Jr is big pharma’s dream.
To my knowledge only ADHD drugs and opioids have laws regarding refill timeline.
Unrelated this video game character looks so cool
Tapering off is difficult because Citalopram is not available in tablets below 10 mg. This needs to be addressed.
People with different genes react in different ways. A heart drug that doesn't work at all for Europeans works well for Africans. Ignoring genetic differences is harmful.
I managed without a prescription for a bit, but living with chronic pain took its toll.
1/2
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They make ADHD manageable, sure, but they make the lives of Narcoleptics liveable.
We'd be going back to the days where people grew it illegally.
Like everything about RFK Jr these claims are bullshit
https://www.statista.com/statistics/973523/top-drugs-by-year-on-year-sales-increase/
People on Mental Health treatment plans are about to be rounded up by the US Nazi Regime and put into forced labor camps as so ordered by RFK Jr.-MotherJones.com
blindness
encephalitis (an infection causing brain swelling)
severe diarrhoea and related dehydration
ear infections
severe breathing problems pneumonia.
pregnancy, this can be dangerous for the mother and can result in her baby being born prematurely with a low birth weight.
Yours, on the other hand, can die.
They're going to kill us.😪
These are going to be for-profit concentration camps, you see.
You do not want millions of insufficiently medicated Americans coming for you. Trust me on this.
I don't know if SNRIs will be targeted, but that's what I take. It's not just for depression. It manages my pain as well. So I'll be really screwed if I lose it.
Research has proven time and again that we're not.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5260135/
https://bsky.app/profile/brooklynmarie.bsky.social/post/3li6wiapnr22o
They'll likely have a few scientology "researchers" to help with mental disorder root causes.
Aren't those forbidden now?
Radicalized, white, cis gendered, heterosexual, abled men have engaged in shootings with no indication of mental illness.