[ryeights]

> How did you determine that "Millions more tried them... and then desisted from treatment without major lifelong mental alterations"?

We have lots of public data on SSRI usage (20+ million in the US alone each year) and discontinuation rates. The drugs themselves are decades old and have been through countless trials and studies, and of course there are databases like FAERS that track reports of adverse drug reactions.

Is your assertion that this is false? That in fact the typical SSRI patient is mentally/emotionally crippled by the drug? Doctors and public health agencies are hiding a public health catastrophe to sell genericized pills that cost tens of dollars a month?

Of course severe side effects can and do happen. Doesn’t mean every bad thing that happens to a person who happened to take SSRIs for a few days should be taken as a big cautionary tale.

[staticman2]

Please engage in good faith.

I asked you how you determined "Millions more tried them... and then desisted from treatment without major lifelong mental alterations"?"

I took that to mean you were confident 0 out of several million people had lifelong alterations.

Any other interpretation of what you meant would suggest you are not responding to anything I wrote and simply writing non sequitors.

It seems to me you said something indefensible (0 out of 1 million people had permanent damage, there is no possibility you have data to show this) and are now trying to change the subject to something less insane (the typical patient has no permanent harm?)

Since PSSD wasn't recognized until 2019 I know you are full of hot air in suggesting if these drugs caused unusual problems we'd know about it by now:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/side-effects/201906/...