#ssris

SSRIs can make you more heat-intolerant. A lot of places are experiencing heatwaves right now, so please stay hydrated, cool, and safe out there. 🖤

David Pakman at The David Pakman Show:

This week, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary resigned. At first glance, that might not sound like the kind of story that should set off alarms. Cabinet officials come and go. Administrations reshuffle personnel all the time. But this one matters. A lot. Because the circumstances surrounding Makary’s resignation tell us something much bigger about what is happening inside Trumpworld and the growing influence of the MAHA movement. The pressure campaign against Makary appears to have come from people who believed he was not moving aggressively enough in politicizing the FDA. Think about how extreme that is for a moment. Makary himself had already drifted significantly into the MAHA orbit. He was not exactly standing on the barricades defending traditional public health institutions from political interference. And yet, even he apparently was not “crazy enough” for the people now steering the conversation around health policy in Trumpworld. That should concern everyone, regardless of political ideology.

The FDA is supposed to be independent

The FDA is not meant to function as a political loyalty machine. Its role is to evaluate evidence, regulate medications, assess safety, and maintain scientific standards insulated from partisan pressure as much as possible. Of course, presidents influence agencies. That has always been true. No administration is completely hands-off. But what we are seeing now is different. There is a growing effort to treat the FDA as though it should simply deliver whatever outcome the president and his allies want. Faster approvals for favored treatments. Restrictions or revocations for politically disfavored medications. Decisions shaped less by scientific review and more by ideological alignment. And over the last month alone, we have seen several examples pointing in exactly that direction.

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RFK Jr., SSRIs, and the growing anti-science movement

At the same time, the MAHA movement has escalated its attacks on SSRIs and psychiatric medications more broadly. These are medications taken by tens of millions of Americans, including drugs like Prozac, Lexapro, and Zoloft. Now, to be clear, discussions about overprescription, side effects, pharmaceutical industry influence, or long-term impacts are completely legitimate. Those conversations should happen. But that is not really what this is becoming. Instead, we are increasingly seeing public health policy shaped by personalities, anecdotes, and conspiratorial thinking. RFK Jr. recently suggested that withdrawal from SSRIs can be harder than heroin withdrawal, essentially positioning his personal experience with addiction as evidence of expertise on psychiatric medications and FDA regulation.

Like I wiped my face because I’m sweating, I’m just sitting in car in the work parking lot before going in

Anyway

I wiped my face and my hands were wet! Not like damp or like oily

WET!!!

Like a drip of sweat went down my hand when I pulled my hands away!!!

Im gonna go in and sit in silence and hopefully im not sweating so bad when I actually clock in

I was warned that the heat would affect me more with my medication but I wasn’t expecting this! I thought it’d be inside heat! Like I’m overheating but not visibly!

I have, as of perhaps 20 minutes ago, picked up Zoloft, prescribed by my doctor. Consensus seems to be that this medication takes a bare minimum of 3 months to fully set in. I have- at the bare minimum- due to my own pigheadedness and lack of spine- signed up for AT LEAST 4 months of not being able to drink basically at all, and possibly not being able to fuck properly, that remains to be seen. This is DOOM for the Robster. UNMISTAKABLE, HORRIBLE, TERRIBLE DOOM.