SCOUT· 68%31m·2026-06-22·News PoliticsR.F.K. Jr.’s Newest Mission: Getting Us Off Antidepressants
In his latest public health crusade, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, is asking why millions of Americans have been taking psychiatric drugs for far longer than ever intended. In the process, he’s highlighting an open secret in medicine: that doctors are better at starting drug treatments than at stopping…
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“A better mission and easier one would be to stop making us depressed and start trying to give us reasons for more hope and happiness.”
“Get off my antidepressants during this administration??? Ha”
“you don’t ask bipolar people to stop taking their meds. you don’t ask diabetic people to stop taking their insulin. you don’t ask a cancer patient to stop going to treatment. if an antidepressant is making you feel not depressed, and you ar…”
“You’ll have to pry my SNRI and mood stabilizer from my cold, dead hands. 😂 Psych meds saved my life. They don’t make he happy all the time or make me numb. They DO keep me from sinking in to paralyzing depression, and help me to live a pro…”
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