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Carolyn Quadrio's avatar

Thank you for your excellent critique - this one and your many others - and for raising the issue of SSRI's and adolescent sexuality; it certainly does require further investigation. Carolyn

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Christopher Sprudzans's avatar

Poor diet, no sleep , no community/friends, no goals or upward aim , and a habit of avoidance of any problem? Take some Zoloft for the rest of your life to balance the “chemistry” and don’t address the former issues; makes complete sense…until it doesn’t.

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Niall McLaren's avatar

Agreed, this is the central point. Under the influence of their unwritten "biomedical model," mainstream psychiatry went for the quick fix. But pigeons come home to roost, we're starting to see it now.

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Christopher Sprudzans's avatar

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." - Frankl.

Let's rephrase this under the biomedical model, "A man's attitude in any given situation is dictated by genetics and brain chemistry, leaving little room for genuine choice"...

Hand me the Zoloft and the Ozempic, thanks.

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Niall McLaren's avatar

This is a major weakness of the so-called biomedical model: where is there room for free will? In a deterministic model, there is no capacity for free will.

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Orli and the team's avatar

Thank you Dr McLaren for sharing your very important research on psychiatric prescription harms 🔥thank you for your courage to spread the true! G_D bless you and protect you always 🌹💌🏆🙂

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