Pearl - June 07, 2025SSRIs Make Women Go Feral
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Summary
Addiction can be hard to deal with, especially when it comes from a parent, a spouse, a child, a loved one, a partner, a friend, a coworker, a business partner, etc. In this episode, we talk about a woman who is addicted to SSRIs and how they have affected her mental health.
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I'm not completely saying that SSRIs are a negative thing. I am just saying they are not
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for everybody. For certain people's brain chemistries, for certain people's struggles,
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they are not the answer. They were not the answer for me and they actually led me.
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Translation. I'm crazy. I'm batshit crazy. Stay away, man. So the next addiction we have is
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modern woman addicted to SSRIs. By the way, guys, at the end of the, in like five videos,
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we're going to put a call online now. We're going to have, you can say modern woman's addictions
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worse than body count, but we're not going to bring people up until I get through these videos.
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So this is a woman on SSRIs. God help us. Before getting prescribed SSRIs, I used to
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not sleep at night. I would spend the night, um, checking on my kids multiple times to make
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sure they were breathing, make sure no one had taken them from their beds. Um, checking the
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locks on their windows to make sure no one could come in, checking the front door, checking the
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back door, um, looking outside to see who was possibly coming in to try to unalive us. Um,
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I would spend all of them. Yeah. So what's worse? So along with a high body count or a woman that
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constantly thinks cause she's on drugs that people are trying to kill you. I don't know.
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I might pick the night's doing this and I would barely sleep, but now I sleep through the night
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before SSRIs. I would randomly think about unaliving myself. I would think, Hmm, what would
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happen if I just drove off the road right now? That'd be a suicidal woman, right? That probably
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worse. Daniel, um, said a super chat problem is beta men are too good. Now AI always ends bad.
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WH four. Okay. Do 1984. Um, I robots and that hall, it will end badly for all. Eric says another
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woman educated beyond the confines of her intellect. Be interesting. Um, it sounds like she needs meds if
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she's actually anxious. Hi guys. I would have some really dark thoughts, but SSRIs have taken those
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away. Um, so yes, please RFK come save me from these horrible drugs.
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Yeah. So lots of drugs, drugs. Okay. Woman is a coach and addicted to SSRIs. Amazing.
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SSRIs are not always the answer. As a coach, I so often get clients coming to me, telling me that
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their therapist wants them to be put on antidepressants. And while antidepressants, SSRIs
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can work for certain people and they have worked wonders for certain people, they are not for
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everybody. When I was 23 years old, I got put on a very low dose, about five milligrams of Lexapro
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to help me with my depression and anxiety. And never before in my life, before getting put on these
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antidepressants was my mental health as bad as it became while I was on them. It got to the point
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where I was so dysregulated. I was so heightened. Your wife could hire her as her coach. And I was
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just so in a state of fight or flight. I could not manage my emotions. I could not manage
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my spiraling thoughts. I could not get out of bed in the day that I actually had to be
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hospitalized in a psych ward. That's how bad it got. Yeah. So again, high body count or your wife
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is in a psych ward every couple of months. And had I actually had somebody who helped me address
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the root cause of the reason that I was feeling the really dark and difficult emotions that I was
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feeling, I don't believe that would have happened. Instead, what happened is I got put on something
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that acted as a bandaid, as a mask for what was really happening underneath. And I think
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people need to be aware that medication is not always the answer. It can be, I'm not, you know,
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pushing against all medication. I'm not saying that it doesn't work for some people, but I am saying
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that it is too often, too quickly and too easily prescribed. It was for me. And I've heard countless
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other stories just like this. There are natural ways to heal your body. There are natural ways to
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improve your brain function. And you need to learn how to deal with difficult emotions.
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I so often see clients who come to me, they're going through a hard time in life. They're going
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through a breakup, difficult things are happening. And their therapist, who they're also working with,
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which is amazing, tells them to get on antidepressants, tells them to get on SSRIs.
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In reality, you guys, there are tough moments in life, and we need to be able to handle them
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without always jumping to a bandaid. We need to learn emotion regulation. We need to learn to sit
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in the discomfort of difficult emotions, because it will keep happening throughout life. It's just
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a reality. Difficult things happen. So if you can't handle it, it's only going to be harder and harder
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and harder every time you mask it. So I'm not completely saying that SSRIs are a negative thing.
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I am just saying they are not for everybody. For certain people's brain chemistries, for certain
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people's struggles, they are not the answer. They were not the answer for me, and they actually led
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me. Translation. I'm crazy. I'm batshit crazy. Stay away, man. To a much darker place than I ever
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was in before. So if you're hearing this and you're considering getting on SSRIs, maybe take a step back.
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Maybe ask yourself if you can work through these things internally, if you can dive deep
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and address the root cause without. Okay, we get the idea. Okay, let's see what's next. Um, woman.
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All right, another woman talking about SSRIs side effects. Any of these five side effects are
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bothering you? It might. That is bad chin filler. I need to do a show on how to tell if a girl's had
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plastic surgery, because I don't think you guys can tell as well as you think. I need to do a show.
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Might be from your SSRI antidepressant. Sexual dysfunction. You're never in the mood. You have
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low libido, and that's because higher serotonin levels in the brain can cause low libido, delay
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gratification, and cause erectile dysfunction. Seat gain. No matter how much you eat or how much
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you exercise, the number just keeps going up on the scale. When you use SSRIs, it can actually
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increase your cravings for carbohydrates, and it can decrease your metabolic rate, making you gain weight
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over time. Number three, feeling tired all the time. That's because more serotonin in the brain
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can actually cause sedative-like effects. That's why a lot of sleep supplements actually try to
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include 5-HTP in their formulation. Number four, you're experiencing a lot of nausea, bloating,
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constipation, just a ton of digestive issues. And it can cause emotional blunting. So you hear good
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news, you have no reaction. If you hear bad news, you have no reaction. You just don't really have
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emotions. Some people may never experience these when using an SSRI antidepressant, while other people
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do. And for the people who do, there are natural ways to help mediate these side effects.
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Yeah, a lot of plastic surgery. Okay, women addicted to, wait for it, spirituality.
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If I told anyone else what I'm about to tell you, they would think I was crazy.
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That is what almost every awakening soul says to me. And then they proceed to tell me about how they're
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getting buzzing in their hands or having ear ringing.
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Yeah, so imagine, honey, could you come with me? I'm having buzzing in my hands.
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Or they're seeing flashes of light in the corners of their eyes.
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Or they're even getting like physical touches, but no one's there.
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Or they're seeing spirits who have passed. They're seeing faces in the trees.
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My people. Awakening souls. This is the safe place for that. I want to hear everything that
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other people think is crazy, that you're worried is too weird to say out loud. And I want to
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validate the fuck out of you. And I love that I get to be the person that y'all say it to.
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That is literally the best part of my job, because you know how that goes? Like, tell me more.
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And then I give you insights, tools, and understanding.
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Yeah, she gives you psychedelics. That's what comes next.
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In addition to addictions, women are more prone to having health issues like PCOS, autoimmune,
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fibroids, endometriosis. I believe this is due to a change in the human diet over the years.
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Doug, MPA, can you put a show on that? I want to look into that. We'll do a show.
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Don't feel crazy. You get context for like, what is going on? How do you develop these? How do you
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move on? How do you... Because what you're experiencing as an awakening soul is not understood
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by almost anyone, if anyone at all around you. And not feeling crazy and understanding your
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abilities really does come down to having some techniques, some tools, some methods,
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some appropriate funnels and containers that give structure to all that wonderful,
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If you're new to me, I am Sarah. I do awakening readings. I do psych...
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Yeah, so what about at dinner? She says, can I see your hand, honey? Would you take that or a high
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body count? She doesn't talk about... Keep me posted, guys. Maybe you're saying, no, I'll take the
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spirituality. But these are our choices. It's 2025. We got to get... We got to get real pragmatic here.