If you haven't checked out the insta of Nicholas Jordan Watger, this is his latest post from inside the mental health facility. @grok What are the effects of sleep deprivation on mental health? Be concise.

“I’m 23 years old… and my clitoris is completely numb, like the back of my elbow. I can’t orgasm. I can’t feel love for my own mother. I can’t even enjoy music anymore.” That was Laureen Friedman’s raw testimony at a recent Safety Advocates on Mental Health Care panel. She lives with PSSD — Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction. After taking Zoloft, she woke up one day with total genital numbness, zero libido, permanent inability to orgasm, and a sudden emotional numbness she describes as “chemical castration” and an “emotional lobotomy.” What used to be a deeply emotional, empathetic, songwriting young woman now feels disconnected from the core human experiences of love and pleasure. She says she was never warned this could happen even after stopping the drug. Millions are prescribed SSRIs every year, often without being told about rare but potentially permanent side effects like PSSD. People deserve full informed consent about what they’re risking. Have you or anyone you know experienced lasting sexual or emotional side effects from antidepressants?

We have medicalized everyday life, and millions of people are living with the consequences. What we are facing is not a fringe issue and it is not confined to any one group. This medicalization crisis touches people across every background, every community, and every political belief. There are forces that benefit from keeping this conversation divided. They frame it as Patient vs Doctor, Science vs. Skepticism, Pro-medication vs. Anti-Medication, Right versus Left. That framing keeps us stuck. It turns a shared problem into opposing sides and prevents the kind of honest conversation this moment requires. This should not be a war. It should be a place where people can come together with humility, curiosity, and a willingness to listen. While we all have vastly different experiences with the benefits and harms of psychiatric diagnoses and medications, we have far more in common with one another than we are often led to believe. We owe it to the millions of Americans currently taking these medications to create reliable, accessible, safe pathways forward for those who want or need to come off them. We owe it to them to build what should have existed all along. We also owe it to our children to model a different way of understanding what it means to be human. Emotional pain is not necessarily a failure of the body requiring correction. It is part of being alive. And meaningful help can take many forms beyond a prescription. We are finally uniting around this simple truth. May we rise above the forces who seek to convince us we are each other’s enemies, and move forward, together, from a place of compassion and understanding.

The unpredictability of the double pendulum. x.com/YKwolfpec/status/20299…

They see the brain through a label, not the biology. You can’t debate a paradigm it’s a mental cage.

She strangled her three kids with an exercise band, one by one, and jumped out the window, paralyzing herself. This is far from the first time this has happened. Theresa Riggi did the same thing. Andrea Yates, too. David Carmichael drugged and strangled his own 11-year-old son, then watched television in a daze before deciding it would be a good idea to call the police. Lindsay Clancy was prescribed: • sertraline (Zoloft) • fluoxetine (Prozac) • zolpidem (Ambien) • mirtazapine (Remeron) • clonazepam (Klonopin) • quetiapine (Seroquel) • diazepam (Valium) • lamotrigine (Lamictal) • lorazepam (Ativan) Among other drugs. Over four months. By Dr. Jennifer A. Tufts and Rebecca H. Jollotta, CNP/PMHNP. These women are supposed to be professionals, and in their professional opinion, they thought it was prudent to put this woman on multiple cocktails of potent psychotropics at breakneck speed. In psychiatry, most of these medications require weeks to reach a supposed "steady state" in the blood and even longer to show therapeutic effects. Further, SSRIs must be hyperbolically tapered to minimize side effects. This alone takes time. To cycle through over 10 different substances in 16 weeks means her brain was never once at a baseline. It was a 120-day neurochemistry experiment. And look at the outcome. Imagine how much trust you must have to allow someone to put you on 10 or more mood-altering meds, most of which exert whole-body effects—effects we do not look at, for neurotransmitter deficits we do not test for! If you looked at every notable familicide case, at school shootings, and at random acts of senseless violence, you would often find these drugs involved. But we don’t look. We need to start looking. And we need to completely gut this system. Here are some more cases you can Google for yourself: • 1993: William Forsyth of Hawaii fatally stabbed his wife 15 times, then killed himself, two weeks after starting Prozac. • 1996: Kurt Danysh shot and killed his father in Pennsylvania. He wrote in a blog that, while taking Prozac, he felt as if he was observing himself “from above.” • 1998: Donald Schell, a 60-year-old with no history of violence, murdered his wife, daughter, and granddaughter before killing himself, weeks after being prescribed Paxil. His surviving relatives successfully sued GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Paxil's manufacturer, with a Wyoming jury finding GSK 80% responsible and awarding the family $6.4 million. • 1999: David Hawkins, then 76, strangled to death his wife of 50 years. He only got three years for the murder because the judge concluded it wouldn’t have happened if not for him being on Zoloft. • 1999: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot and killed 13 people and wounded 23 others, before killing themselves during a mass shooting at Columbine high school. Harris, then 18, had been taking Zoloft, but had switched to Luvox before the murders. • 2001: Christopher Pittman, then 12 years old, shot and killed his sleeping grandparents and then set fire to their house in Chester, South Carolina. He was prescribed Zoloft less than a month before. • 2001: Andrea Yates, who drowned her five children in Texas, suffered from postpartum psychosis and was being treated with Effexor and Haldol. Her husband later stated that a sudden increase in her medication dosage significantly worsened her condition. • 2004: David Carmichael of Ontario, Canada, drugged and strangled his 11-year-old son. After the killing, he sat in a daze watching television before calling the police. He was found not criminally responsible due to Zoloft-induced psychosis; he had been prescribed the drug only weeks prior and was experiencing a "psychotic break" the judge attributed to the medication. • 2010: Neal Jacobson, a Florida family man with no history of violence shot and killed his wife and twin sons three weeks after being prescribed Zoloft and Xanax. • 2012: James Holmes, “The Batman Killer,” shot and killed 12 people, injuring 70 others at an Aurora, Colorado movie premiere of The Dark Knight. He was taking Zoloft. His psychiatrist upped the dosage, and then he abruptly stopped. • 2009: Shane Clancy, a 22-year-old theology student described as “a gregarious teetotaler whose life revolved around family, study, and charity,” stabbed to death his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend. Clancy also stabbed the man’s brother nine times, as well as Clancy’s ex-girlfriend, both of whom survived. He then fatally stabbed himself 19 times. He had begun taking Celexa just three weeks before. • 2010: Theresa Riggi, an American living in Scotland, fatally stabbed her three children. She was on a cocktail of antidepressants and painkillers at the time. Similar to other cases, the defense highlighted her compromised mental state and the influence of her prescription regimen during the period leading up to the tragedy. • 2019: Alec McKinney and Devon Erickson opened fire at the STEM School Highlands Ranch in Colorado, killing one student and injuring eight others. During court proceedings, testimony revealed that McKinney, then 16, had been prescribed the antidepressant Zoloft in the months leading up to the attack. • 2026: Jesse Van Rootselaar, 18, murdered his mother and young stepbrother at home before killing nine more and injuring 27 at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School. His alleged Reddit account revealed use of illicit and prescription psychotropic drugs, including a reported 280 mg dose of sertraline (Zoloft), exceeding the 200 mg recommended cut-off.