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Antidepressants, Explained Clearly - Part 1
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Ever been told “antidepressants change your personality” or “you’ll be on them forever”? We’re cutting through the noise with a clear, grounded tour of how modern antidepressants work, why they were discovered by accident, and what real people should know before starting, switching, or stopping. We share the surprising roots of MAOIs and tricyclics, how SSRIs became mainstream, and where ECT fits today for treatment-resistant cases. No jargon, no scare tactics—just the essentials you can use to make smarter choices with your clinician.
We break down brain basics in plain English: neurons, synapses, and the roles of serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine in mood and motivation. You’ll hear why reuptake inhibition matters, what changes to expect first, and how to spot common side effects like sleep shifts, nausea, and sexual dysfunction. Just as important, we draw a bright line between dependence and addiction, and explain why tapering off—never quitting cold turkey—protects your body while you pivot your plan.
Along the way, we talk stigma, ask the questions your provider hopes you’ll bring, and explore how medication pairs with therapy, sleep, movement, and community to create lasting relief. Plus, a gripping “Winner of the Week” rescue, show updates from the Motor City Hypnotist studio, and a quick adoption spotlight for Minnie from Detroit Dog Rescue. If you’ve been curious, cautious, or confused about antidepressants, this conversation gives you the clarity to move forward with confidence.
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Antidepressants Revisited: Why It Matters
SPEAKER_05In this episode of the Motor City Hymnotus Podcast, we're going to talk about antidepressant medications. That's a bummer. Now, here's the thing. We did, I think we did an episode on this going way back. I mean, it's been years. Okay. But I thought it's worth revisiting because again, I get uh probably a majority of my clients are in some type of psychotropic medications. And a lot of times it's very confusing for people, especially with antidepressants, because they're different classes, they work in different ways. So we're gonna cover that today in case you you've maybe you take an antidepressant yourself, maybe you've considered it. But we're gonna go over what the types are, how they work, and why they work. All right. And we'll we'll let you get more comfortable if you happen to choose to take an antidepressant. Okay. And as usual, as we've done every episode, we're giving away free stuff. Hang in there, folks. We'll be right back.
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SPEAKER_02Get ready for the motor city hypnotist David R. Wright, originating from the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. He has hypnotized thousands of people from all over the United States. David R. Wright has been featured on news outlets all across the country and is the clinical director of an outpatient mental health and hypnosis clinic located just south of Detroit, where he helps people daily using the power of hypnosis. Welcome, the Motor City Hypnotist, David R. Wright.
SPEAKER_05What is going on, my friends? It is David Wright, the Motor City Hypnotist, and we are back with another episode of the Motor City Hypnotist Podcast. It's been way too week, man. I love it. Yeah, that's Matt Fox, the other voice you hear. Hello, David. We're hanging out here in the podcast Your Voice, the palatial studios in Southfield, Michigan.
Studio Banter And Show Setup
SPEAKER_03Doing a podcast, having a drink. I love that word.
SPEAKER_05Yes.
SPEAKER_03Drink.
SPEAKER_05Oh, palatial. I thought you have a palatial drink. I don't know if there is such a thing, but I let's do it. So big shout out to Podcast Your Voice, by the way. Uh if you're interested in doing a podcast, I'm telling you, they're podcasts for everything. I just started Matt and I don't know. So I go on a sidebar here real quickly because I just got hooked into watching YouTube videos of Dungeons and Dragons. YouTube videos? Deborah Ann Wool. Do you know who she is? I'm she's in Daredevil. Okay. Red Hat. She was also in True Blood. Yes, yes, yes. She runs this involved D D group. Really? And they they do the whole campaign. Then they have they every episode they have a different guest in. And these are this is a YouTube channel. It's a YouTube channel. I think it's called the Dungeon Dudes. And she she's the dungeon master. She runs these groups, but they have they have like different people come in like in each episode. The last episode, the finale of the season was Will Wheaton. Oh wow. Came in to do the finale of the campaign. And I'm gonna roll, and okay. I rolled an eight. I rolled an 18, but my history check says minus three, so it's really a 15.
SPEAKER_03So I'm going to parlay with my right hand, and with my left hand, I'm going to duck and again parlay, and with my other hand.
SPEAKER_05Wow. And and he asked her about it. He says, So what's what's with this Dungeons and Dragons? She says, Oh, you'd love it. Let's do it now. And she just goes through the scenario with him. That's fun. And he was just so like engaged. He was like, Really?
SPEAKER_03Wow.
SPEAKER_05It's like acting.
SPEAKER_03She says, exactly. No, that that whole point of Dungeons and Dragons going way back into the 80s. Yeah, oh, I know. Yeah, your dungeon master, you've got your you you got your character, you got his attributes all laid out, you got his dexterity, you got all that laid out.
SPEAKER_05I've never played, but now I want to play.
SPEAKER_03It's a it if you go back to the beginnings of D D, it took you sometimes days to create a character. Yeah, because you wanted the perfect character, the perfect mage, the perfect knight, the perfect any of those characters that are in there, you wanted to be able to kick ass, is what it came down to.
SPEAKER_05And and she brought up a good point because John Bernthal said, because he she said, Well, we do we do a whatever history check. And he goes, Well, how how do I know what that is? He goes, You have a character sheet and it gives all your rankings. He goes, Well, why not? Why don't I just be good at everything? She said, Well, then it's not really the game's not really fun because there's no challenges.
SPEAKER_03Everybody starts at level one.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_03All right. And there you have strengths and you have weaknesses. That's the whole point of it. That's what rolling the dice means. You when you roll a die, that means that's the number for your character that you start with, and then you build from there. Yeah.
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SPEAKER_05So anyway, just a little side note. I don't know how you got off on that. I just nerd it, I just totally nerded out with each other. No, no, I know. It's it's crazy. So I've been I've been looking at that and I'm not sure why that came up. I don't know either, but it's okay. You just said side, folks, okay. Where you can find me. First of all, my website is motorcityhypnotist.com. Check it out, especially now. We're getting into we're getting close to prom and grad season. So shows are booking, shows are filling up, dates are filling up. So if you need somebody for your after prom or your post-grad night party, now's the time to book it. Lock it in. You can have a quote in seconds, you can book online within the same amount of time, and and you'll be guaranteed a spot as long as the dates open. So that's the challenge because dates are filling up. So check that out. ASAP. My social media links, Facebook and YouTube, are both Motor City Hypnotist, and Snapchat, Instagram, and TikTok are all Motor City Hypno. H Y P N O. And as we've done every episode going back to number one, text the word hypnosis to 313 800 8510. Within a few moments, you'll receive a text message with a downloadable PDF. It's just a brief two-page hypnosis guide. It kind of gives you an overview of hypnosis, dispel some myths and misconceptions. And it will also give you a Google link to my business page where you can leave a review. And again, reviews are the reviews are so important. They just help get the message out to other people, help grow the podcast and grow my business and grow my my listening base. Yeah, my listening base. And and that that's that's really what reviews really help. So so wherever you're listening, whatever podcast platform you're on, leave a review review there as well. Because again, any review on any platform, it just helps and helps grow the channel. Thank you. Alrighty, it is time, Matt. No, it better be who I think it is. I don't think so.
SPEAKER_00That's how win it is, though.
SPEAKER_03So I I try to read your mind, David. You do. Well, I'm not I'm I'm kind of interested to see who you thought it should be. I really want Lindsay Vaughn to be your winner of the week because that lady is just a phenom in her sport, yeah. And to do what she did at her age, she's not old. She's close to 40. She is 40. Yeah, okay, yeah. I knew she was right around there, yeah. And but to do what she did at her age and just put herself out there, she did not need, and I'm gonna steal your winner of the week here. She did not need to prove herself. No, she's done it all already. She's already done it. Her legacy is intact. Yeah, she got out there to prove to her own self that she could do it, and she wanted to do it, and she challenged herself. That is it in in as as a and then she wiped out. I don't care that she wiped out, it wasn't that she did, it was the flag. She just went five inches too far and hit the flag. She put herself out there to prove to her own self that she could do something, and things happen. Sounds like a winner to me. Exactly. So that's who I wanted my winner of the week to be.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03That's okay.
SPEAKER_05That's go on. Yeah, you could you could do winner of the week on Man Cave. I could. You could that would really take the fellows for a ride. All right, so let's talk about our winner of the week. Yes, please. A woman, some eight months pregnant, has a total stranger to thank for her life and that of her baby. When she was driving down I-95 in Martin County, Shedley Apollon remembered feeling dizzy. It was her 29th birthday. She was probably in a good mood, but biology and fate had a wicked gift in store for her. A wicked gift.
SPEAKER_03Yes. Oh wow.
Winner Of The Week: Dramatic Rescue
SPEAKER_05The dizziness grew until she lost control of her car, which trundled off the highway and into a pond. Confused, she called her fiance and told her she was in the water, confusing him in turn. WPBF reports that the phone went dead at that moment, just when water began seeping in through the holes under the pedals, and the car began to tilt forward into the brown water. I tried to open my driver's side door and my passenger door, but they were both submerged in water, so I couldn't get out, she said. I started feeling water in my feet, so I started to panic. That's when a good Samaritan on scene, Logan Hayes, stripped off his excess layers, took a running jump, and swam to the car to open the back door before it too became submerged. I didn't know uh Wolverine had a last name. Yeah, maybe it was. He just like slashed the door open. When he swung that door open, I was like, You are an angel, Apollon said. That's the story.
SPEAKER_03Wow. So a stranger saves the car.
SPEAKER_05So Stranger saw this car. Oh, wait, no, there's more. Sorry. Because it really because there was a there was a title here. Okay. It's almost impossible to open a car door whilst the car is sinking. Yes. The force needed to disperse the water is beyond what most humans can create with their arms or even their legs. Wow. The best chance to save your life if you know for certain your car is going into the water is open the door on the way in or roll down all the windows, which, like the door, can't be opened once they're taking on water.
SPEAKER_03That's why there are contraptions. There's like little hammers with a like a ball piece, but it's a pinpoint, yep, a metal. And it will break the window from the inside.
SPEAKER_05If not, the only other chance is to smash the windows or hold your breath until the pressure in the cabin equalizes with that of the water, at which point the door will open easily. That was proven on Discovery Channel's Mythbusters to be beyond the limit of most people's lung capacity. So that's the thing. Because as soon as that water starts getting up near your face, you're gonna panic. Oh, of course. It's just human nature, unless you prepared for it, unless you've done training, Navy SEALs training, they do this. There's a show, I don't I don't know what it's called. My wife watches it, but I jump in every once in a while and it's like celebrities doing these military trainings.
SPEAKER_03Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_05It was a Fox thing last season, yeah. So one of the challenges is you get in a car and they submerge it and you have to get out.
SPEAKER_03Okay, so what if you don't have that little hammer contraption with the metal piece with the point on it? Well, what do you use? You have well, I don't know. I'm gonna tell you. Oh, okay, Matt. Go ahead. On the back of your seat, there is a headrest. You remove the headrest, and what's oh, those two metal correct. That's what you I think that's what you use to break said window. Okay, okay, because those are you can put enough force.
SPEAKER_05And I'm assuming that people feel like just waiting is wasting time because again, instinct is we have to get out of here now. And to wait for that water to come up and that pressure to equalize. Again, you have to hold your breath for minutes. Your automatic windows will not come up. And again, when you're in that panic state, you're you're not gonna be able to breathe, you're not gonna be able to hold breath.
SPEAKER_03Ask any scuba diver, David, uh-huh, what the one thing that you do not want to do when submerged underwater. You're 15 feet underwater, you're a scuba diver, you run out of air. What do you not do? Go right to the go right to the surface. You don't panic because you get the bends, but you just don't panic. Yeah, you do you take a take a quick second because that's all you have, gather your surroundings and realize, yes, this is bad. I need to act quickly. Yeah, what do you do as a person who has run out of air 15 feet underwater? Oh, yeah, okay. What's the last thing that you they should do is panic. Yeah, because if you panic, you're dead. Yeah, well, of course.
SPEAKER_05So well, and and it's easier to say that until you're in that situation. And most of us can't can't really comprehend the fear that would have.
SPEAKER_03I mean, we can guess, but so uh I will share with you this experience that I had. Yeah, so I'm in scuba diving training, yeah. And we do this technique that's called buddy breathing, where two people breathe off the same thing, the same tank, yep, because you have a different respirator or whatever it's called. I can't remember. Yeah, but my my buddy, the dive master that was with me, he said, I'm going to share. And it's a hand motion that you do underwater because it's all hand signals. Right. He put his hand to his mouth and he said, Me, and then he put put his hand towards me, meaning I'm gonna buddy breathe. My response was okay. In the signal, okay. So he does that, he goes to clear, and there's nothing there. We're 15 feet underwater. Yeah, he looked at me, his eyes got really wide, my eyes got really wide. I took my hand and I put it across my throat saying, I'm out, I'm going up, and I put pointing my thumb up towards the surface of the water. I'm out of air, I'm going up to the surface. And his response was okay with the hand signal. And what we did to salvage from the bends was to say the word ah, how long can you say ah for? You try it. You and that's how we ascended to the surface of the water was by saying the word ah. That is the technique that scuba instructors will teach people so they don't end up with the bends so they can salvage the air in their lungs as they're ascending, yeah, so they don't get the bends. Okay, it's an experience I've had it.
SPEAKER_05Well, yeah, and and and if you've trained for it, yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER_03That's invaluable. But somebody who is a novice, if you will, right? I I can understand where her where she's coming from.
SPEAKER_05Paramedics arrived and rushed her to the hospital where it was determined the stress of the near-death experience called for an emergency C-section.
SPEAKER_03Oh my goodness.
SPEAKER_05Apollon's fiance arrived at the hospital after the birth of their daughter, Ivory, at seven weeks early, weighing three pounds 14 ounces. She describes Ivory as being her miracle baby, and it's easy to see why. Hayes, the rescuer, said he was just happy to be at the right place at the right time. So it was a water birth.
SPEAKER_04It was a water labor. Maybe I don't know. Either way, the winner of the week? It's winner of the week for sure.
SPEAKER_00That's how winning is done.
SPEAKER_05Yes, it is.
SPEAKER_03Hey, hey Dave. Hey, hey Matt. So we're talking about antidepressants. Yes. So my therapist told me that I need to stop making up scenarios in my head. Well, that's odd because I don't even have a therapist. Oh, that's fantastic. Oh, what do you got?
SPEAKER_05Hold on. I'm trying to, I'm my my my pages are out of order. Okay, you're good. All right, here we go. There you go. All right, so we are talking to oh, wait a minute, we forgot. Oh, so back to it. There we go. Thank you, Glenn. So we're talking about antidepressant medications. So here's the thing. This this topic that we're talking about affects millions of people. And in still, even though people are taking antidepressants and they're very commonly prescribed, there's a lot of confusion, there's a lot of misinformation, and there's really kind of a stigma associated with taking psychotropic medications.
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
Panic, Safety, And Staying Calm
SPEAKER_05Whether that be for depression or anxiety or bipolar disorder. You know, people when people tend to have a reaction of being judgmental when somebody says, Oh, yeah, I'm taking antidepressants. They look at them as kind of a leper or something. But there is some stigma attached to it. So if you know somebody, if you yourself have never taken them, but you know somebody who has, there are probably questions that come up. And these are the questions that a lot of clients ask before they start taking antidepressant medications. I mean, one of the questions is do they actually work? Because again, not to get off on the conspiracy theory terrain, but a lot of people are very suspicious of medications and medical professionals. It's a stigma. Yeah. It's a big stigma. I know. It really is. Yeah. Another question that clients ask are are antidepressants addictive? Well, they can be. In in the traditional sense of the word addictive, no. But you you may you may come to depend on that's what that's the word feeling, the the way you do.
SPEAKER_03The dependability of the medication. This is oh, I need this to feel XYZ, right?
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Okay. Another question that people ask, will it change my personality? And and I understand that question, but at the same time, it's like, okay, I don't think your person if if you're if you're feeling depressed and then you're not feeling depressed, chances are it's gonna help your personality in a way. Because you don't have this pressure now of this weight of depression keeping you down. Another question that a lot of people ask is Am I gonna have to take this the rest of my life? And these are all valid questions for anybody just starting to use or take antidepressant medication. So here's the thing: I'm a licensed therapist and hypnotherapist. I work with people every day who have these exact questions and concerns, and people who take antidepressant medication. So here's the thing: I am not a medical doctor. So the information I'm giving you is is readily available online, but this is not medical advice. Definitely, if you have a therapist or a doctor, that's who you need to discuss this with. I'm not gonna recommend anybody take anything specific because again, it's very it's very individualized based on your own physiology. All right. So one of the big things that people don't know is that antidepressants were discovered by accident. They didn't plan, they didn't make a plan to say, hey, we need a medication to to treat people's depression. That was never the case. Kind of like Botox with cerebral palsy. Well, or or or ED drugs that were originally designed to be heart medications. Right. Same type of thing with antidepressants. Oh, my my my heart's gonna explode, but my penis could be right. Yeah, my heart might be bad, but but again, you get the added benefit. Might as well go out smiling, you know. So before the 1950s, treatments for severe depression were really limited. Often people with depression in the early 20th century were hospitalized. They just put them in the hospital for depression. So talk therapy was just kind of developing during this time, influenced by again big names like Sigmund Freud, but there were no medications at that time to specifically address or treat depression. So in the 30s and 40s, the one thing that people were were subject to or that physicians were using was ECT, which is electroconvulsive therapy, shock therapy. Yeah, electroshock therapy. Electroshock therapy. Okay. And honestly, electric shock therapy is still used today, although very rarely treatment resistant cases of depression.
SPEAKER_03And so that's a scenario.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, that is a scenario where let's say somebody's been depressed and suicidal and they've tried different types of medications and nothing seems to work, then yeah, definitely ECT can be something that could help. Again, it's It's not nearly as used, uh widely used as it used to be back in the 30s, 40s, or even 50s, but it still is out there.
SPEAKER_03And I'm I'm I'm curious, at what point does a therapist or a neurologist say electroshock therapy is what this person needs?
SPEAKER_05I would say, again, just based on my professional experience, it would be somebody who's been working for an extended period of time trying to address their depression with therapy, with antidepressant medications, sometimes with anti-anxiety medications. Because a lot of times these are co-occurring conditions. And somebody who's always anxious is bound to be depressed, and vice versa. It's a it's it's there's a lot of overlap. It's so archaic to me. It it does. It does seem archaic, it does. It really seems archaic, yes. So in the 50s, doctors were treating tuberculosis patients with a drug called I I'm gonna I'm gonna butcher the pronunciation. I should have wrote it phonetically. You're okay. Iproniazid. Iproniazid. Okay, I p r on iazid. And they noticed something unusual that people started becoming happier, their moods started to change for the more positive. From the ECT? They become what may no from from this this tuberculosis drug. Okay, thank you. Yes, the amaprazine. I'm sorry, I'm gonna say this one more time because I think I'm getting wrong. I pronas i proniazide. Okay, okay, they became more energetic, they became more socially engaged. So it wasn't designed as a mood medication, but it had mood elevating effects to it to keep them from coughing. Yeah. So this led to the first, this led to physicians or doctors or the medical community developing the first class of antidepressants, which which are called MAIOs.
SPEAKER_03Yes, we've heard M Ao I's.
SPEAKER_05M Ao I is you've heard of you've heard the that acronym many, many times.
SPEAKER_03Yes.
Main Topic Reset: Antidepressants
SPEAKER_05So what that stands for is monoamine oxidase inhibitors. Around the same time that this Meprazine or or the other medication was was being developed, another drug called Mipramine was developed, and it became the first tricyclic antidepressant or TCA. Now, when I talk about tricyclic, don't just ignore that. That's just based on the class of the medication. Okay. Okay. So again, the very first antidepressant medications were not invented for depression, they were invented for TB. And then the doctors kind of took it from there. So let's talk a little bit how how do antidepressants work? And and this can get a little bit well, we're gonna get into it. And and there's probably we'll have to explain a little bit because there are different classes of this medication and they work a little bit differently.
SPEAKER_06Okay.
SPEAKER_05So so we're gonna kind of simplify it just for this podcast so that you can understand it. So your brain works with electrical impulses, that's how our brain functions. There are electrical impulses that causes brain activity. Your brain that allows our brains to work.
SPEAKER_03You never your brain never stops activating, right? Whether you're awake, sleeping, it's always active.
SPEAKER_05So the the the way your brain communicates is is through chemicals which are called neurotransmitters. So the big three that we're concerned with as far as depression goes are serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine.
SPEAKER_03So you see these commercials and they say it blocks certain right. Yes, it blocks certain neuro.
Stigma, Myths, And Common Questions
SPEAKER_05Well, well, we're we're gonna get into that because because that's that's these different classes of medications and how they work. And we'll we'll we'll get into that because there's one specifically that's meant to block, and I'll I'll explain that. Okay, fair enough. So neurons in your brain they communicate along around these tiny gaps. And and the best analogy I can give and the way I explain it to clients is think of a spark plug. Spark plug is and if you know what a spark plug is, there's this little gap, and there's a spark that that that jumps across that gap. And if you've ever, if you've if you're a car guy, if you're a mechanic, you know what I'm talking about. Yeah, these have to be set right. If you're if your spark plugs, if the points aren't set or if the the the gap isn't set right, it's not gonna function well. What if you drive an electric vehicle? Well, that's then we don't need it. That's why it's like a spark plug. What the fuck? Is a spark plug? But it but I mean, most people kind of get the concept. It's a spark that bridges a gap. That's exactly the way our mind works. Thank you. That's how it gets, that's how it processes, that's how it functions. So what happens is once we release that neurotransmitter, it crosses that gap and then it buy it binds itself to the next neuron up. This normally, then normally whatever's left over gets reabsorbed back in. So it's kind of like again, I want to use the engine thing because it's just an analogy that fits. The spark plug fires, it ignites all the gas in that chamber, and it uses that that that that force to drive the piston. Whatever's left over gets funneled out. Same thing in your brain.
SPEAKER_03And exhaust, right?
SPEAKER_05So so your neurons fire, you use all you use some of this chemical, but there's still some chemical left. So what happens to that? Where does it go? Well, if it's isn't absorbed quickly, most of it stays active in the synapsis. It kind of stays there for years. It's just firing and firing, yes, it just continues. So here's here's what happens. Most antidepressants, or many, work by blocking that re-uptake. So instead of instead of pulling all that leftover neurotransmitter back in, it leaves it out there so it can be continue to fire. Okay. That that's kind of the most simplistic way I can put it. So, based on that, there are medications to antidepressant medications called SSRIs. These are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. It's a very complicated way of saying it just keeps more neurotransmitters active in your brain instead of it being sucked back. It's and it's continuous. Yes. So SSRIs, here's some examples. And in everybody has heard of these medications, I'm sure you know. Prozac, Zoloft, Lexapro. Those are the three big ones. These are all, and then and there's there are tons of different antidepressant medications, but these are the most popular ones. So these medications specifically block that serotonin re-uptake so it stays active in your brain. All right. They became popular in the late 80s and 90s because they the medical community felt like these were safer than the older type, the MAOI inhibitors, which works a little bit differently. Or ECTs or shock therapy. Exactly. So they they became much more popular in the 80s and 90s because they became safer and then they replaced that older type of antidepressants that were developed back in the 50s. Here's the common side effects, though, with antidepressants. And many people kind of say, uh, I don't want to take this because one wait, wait, anal leakage?
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SPEAKER_00No, no, don't shut me up. I'm just it's just one of those things that's what in ladies are you talking about? It happens.
SPEAKER_05So it could happen because you get nausea, that could cause that, uh, headaches, sleep changes, sexual side effects, ED, ED. Yep. That that's again a common thing with antidepressant medications.
SPEAKER_03Now you're treating a now, you're treating a symptom with a symptom.
SPEAKER_05Right. Now, here's the question though. Which symptom is more severe? Fair. I mean, if somebody is severely depressed and they're suicidal, then you know, ED is probably the least of your concerns at that point. What if they're a sex addict? Well, they have more many more things to to think about and worry about. There's so much involved.
SPEAKER_06There is, there is.
Not Medical Advice: Scope And Safety
SPEAKER_05But here's the important thing about any antidepressant, it's not physiologically addictive. Now, when I say that, people are gonna say, Well, what happens if you stop taking it? Well, cold, but here's the thing anytime you're taking any medication and you just stop, there's gonna be a physiological reaction to it. Some very little, some a lot. So it's different from addiction, though. It's just your body readjusting to not having that. Okay, so we have to make that definite, you know, separation of those things. Okay, it's not technically physiologically addictive, but discontinuing it just out of the blue is not good for you because your physiology has to adjust.
SPEAKER_03They say quitting cold turkey is the worst thing you can do. You have to come off of said medication.
SPEAKER_05I would say any medication you take, uh, you probably need to wean off just to be safe. Yes, because when you're used, when your body's used to something and you abruptly stop it, there's gonna be a physical like physiological reaction to it. Talk to anybody that's ever quit smoking cold turkey.
SPEAKER_03Yep, yeah, it's it's that withdrawal symptoms, withdrawal brutal, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. As a former cigarette smoker, yeah, the the withdrawals are absolutely terrible. Yep, and there are ways to combat said symptoms neurologically, psychologically, right? Like, okay, eat carrots, it's a crunchy vegetable, right? But there's so much more when it comes to the human brain, there's so much more involved. There's a lot involved, yeah, because this is we've only tapped into 10% of the brain. Oh, yeah. And there's we we know nothing about what's in our heads, right? Nothing. Yeah, yeah.
A Brief History Of Antidepressants
SPEAKER_05So here's what we're gonna do, folks. There's a lot of information left, and we're we're gonna go to part two for this episode. That went quick. Coming up, it did go quick, it was kind of kind of crazy, but we're gonna talk more. So we left off on the SSRIs. We're gonna pick it back up there on next episode. If you're on Facebook Live joining us live, stick around. We're gonna do another episode. If you're listening on whatever platform you're on, jump ahead to the next episode. If it's not there, it will be there Tuesday or Thursday. All right, who we saving today?
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