Pearl - September 08, 2026


ā€œModern Women Are Taking ANTIDEPRESSANTS to Cope With Lifeā€


Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

207.81

Word count

562

Sentence count

8

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

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Toxicity

2

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Hate speech

5

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Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Taking SSRIs is someone who fought it for 10 years.
00:00:02.680 Leftovers and I thought I would tell you about my experience going on medication for the first time.
00:00:08.060 First few days, I felt like I was on a microdose of Molly or something.
00:00:13.420 I was so insanely elated and calm and happy that it was kind of bizarre.
00:00:17.300 And my brain got really quiet, almost too quiet.
00:00:21.600 But I was like a little freaked out by it.
00:00:23.920 And I was really hoping my thoughts would come back.
00:00:26.000 weeks following i was exhausted and probably more depressed than i had been before so i was a little
00:00:32.400 concerned about it but i knew that that was just something i had to kind of power through a lot of
00:00:37.060 people said that it gave them insomnia so i was taking in the morning it made me really tired
00:00:41.500 instead so i started taking it at night and now i sleep like a baby best thing that's happened
00:00:45.200 is i saw someone else talk about this and this is the perfect way to explain it it feels like
00:00:49.880 nothing because all of a sudden things just aren't extreme anymore my highs and lows were kind of
00:00:54.940 ruining my life not in like a manic way but in like a if i would get sad that could drag me into
00:01:01.900 a hole of sadness for two or three weeks that would be so difficult to crawl out of when i was
00:01:07.620 happy it was the happiest i had ever been and everything was so bright and beautiful and when
00:01:12.720 i came down from that it was so disappointing i'm a huge feeler i'm a huge emotional person like i
00:01:18.020 sound insufferable yeah i like to feel everything in the world i remember when i first started
00:01:22.480 taking ssris the moment where i thought i was gonna have a panic attack i was about to have
00:01:26.100 one and then a blanket of calm rushed over me and disappeared so intensely and i'm on the lowest 0.99
00:01:31.160 possible dose i think it's just women being brats i think all of this is women being spoiled 0.99
00:01:36.620 they you know they never got told no their whole life and now they hear no and it's a crash out 0.99
00:01:42.180 so i still feel things really intensely they just don't control me anymore and i'm able to
00:01:48.240 take my emotions and hold them for a second instead of acting on them right away and that's
00:01:52.980 what was ruining my life my emotions controlled every part of me now i get sad and i can wake up
00:01:58.140 tomorrow and it's a new day also the biggest thing for me has been i don't hate myself anymore
00:02:06.340 will you like maybe you should hate yourself why don't we always act like hating ourselves is a bad
00:02:11.500 thing like why is that a bad thing you know um sometimes it's good to hate yourself a little
00:02:18.900 bit there too when it was finally kicking in started bawling in my car because my brain was
00:02:24.000 so used to like coming up with reasons that i hate myself and thinking about them and i couldn't
00:02:29.620 think of it yeah all right guys yeah i mean and if i all right well this is what's the dating 0.95
00:02:36.180 market a lot of antidepressants stds and bitchy women so anyways 0.96