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RFK Jr. Is Already Taking Aim at Antidepressants
motherjones.com/politics/2025/

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr has been planted by Trump in the role of Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services.

He wants to slash scientifically-established medication, hospital treatment, financial benefits, and government programs for people with these conditions:
- Chronic illness.
- Autism.
- ADHD, and medication including Adderall and Ritalin.
- Asthma.
- Obesity.
- Multiple sclerosis.
- Psoriasis.
- Mental illness such as depression and anxiety, and SSRI medication including Prozac and Zoloft.

RFK Jr says wants people who live with chronic illness such as those listed above — who often require daily preventative medication, a professional carer/assistant, or an assistive device for their daily functioning and to maintain their quality of life and sense of dignity and autonomy — to be stripped of their treatment and put into in "Wellness Farms" for "three or four years if they need it".

This is the sort of inhumane mistreatment of people requiring medical care that happened in the USSR and still goes on today in North Korea. It should not happen in the USA.

This move by RFK Jr is going to destroy childhoods, ruin families, cause people financial ruin, and for some people it will cost them their life.

Mother JonesRFK Jr. is already taking aim at antidepressantsThe new HHS secretary has made baseless claims that the drugs are addictive and cause violent behavior.
#USPol#RFKJr#Trump

For those of you who claim side effects occur with SSRIs, and an informed, consensual risk-benefit analysis is needed to decide whether to try them, 💯❤️

For you male white reply guys whose pecker went inactive because of them & so you distort the clear science behind the NNT vs NNH,

1) Vancomycin in patients criterial for sepsis has a similar NNT to sertraline in treating generalized anxiety in adolescents.

2) people with autism have greater intolerance to them, & more side effects hence risk-benefit discussion & informed consent

You're basically advocating analogously against antibiotics using the logic of NNT.

Someone recently told me that he won't try taking antidepressants because he doesn't want to be numbed by drugs. I probably thought this way, too, but I've found it to be the other way around.

Depression is numbing. Anxiety is a locked room. I'm not a psychiatrist, but it's my understanding that #SSRIs reverse the neurological damage caused by #depression. I've experienced this as winter into spring.