The Ugly truth about antidepressants

Antidepressants are not the miracle cure you’ve been led to believe. They don’t heal your pain, your anxiety, your depression, your grief, or your trauma—they just mask it, leaving you numb and disconnected from your emotions.

And the worst part? They don’t even address the root cause of your suffering.

Let's start with the facts

• Antidepressants were not invented with your healing in mind. Their history is rooted in repurposed failed drugs, rushed trials, and profit-driven motives.
• The placebo effect in antidepressant studies is undeniable. In many cases, sugar pills perform just as well as the drugs—if not better—without the long list of side effects.
• Speaking of side effects, these pills often leave you with fatigue, weight gain, sexual dysfunction, emotional blunting, and an increased risk of suicidal thoughts. Are these trade-offs really worth it?
• Over the past 5 years, the number of prescriptions has skyrocketed. Doctors are handing them out like candy, often after a single 10-minute conversation without even seeing you in person.
• Although your general practitioner is technically licensed to diagnose mental health disorders, they likely have less experience with, and understanding of, the many specific mental health issues and how to treat them.

Why? Because the pharmaceutical reps who sell these drugs are the same ones "educating" your doctors.

Let that sink in: the people profiting off the meds are shaping the narrative around them and gifting the doctors to prescribe them.

One of the biggest lies sold to the public is the "chemical imbalance theory." Big Pharma used this slogan as a marketing tactic to sell Prozac in the 1980s, convincing people AND DOCTORS that their depression was caused by a lack of serotonin in the brain.

This theory was never scientifically proven—and has since been debunked. Studies now show that depression is not simply a serotonin deficit.

What they don’t tell you is that serotonin, the so-called "happiness chemical," is primarily synthesized in the gut (around 90%) and even in the skin—not the brain. This means that gut health and lifestyle factors play a massive role in mental health, yet these are rarely addressed in mainstream treatments. Why? Because there's no profit in teaching you how to heal yourself anturally

Big Pharma spends billions every year on marketing to you and your doctor. To put it in perspective, they invest more in selling you the story of antidepressants than they do in researching how to actually heal mental health conditions.

Why? Because it's about keeping you as a lifelong customer, not helping you heal.

Here's the kicker
Antidepressants were never meant to be a long-term solution. Yet millions of people have been on them for years—still waiting for them to work.

If these medications were truly the solution, why do so many people find themselves stuck on them for decades, increasing dosages, switching brands, chasing a happiness that never comes?

How long are 𝘆𝗼𝘂 willing to take that chemical and put up with the side effects, hoping one day you’ll wake up and feel better?

At what point do you realize that no pill will ever teach you how to heal your emotional wounds, process your trauma, or change your thought patterns?

What’s worse is that these medications are often prescribed for things like anxiety, mild depression, ADHD, PTSD, and even grief—normal human responses to life’s challenges.

Grief is not a mental illness. Neither is having a trauma response or feeling overwhelmed by modern life.

These medications don't teach you how to process your emotions or rewire the thoughts and behaviors keeping you stuck—they just mute the symptoms and leave the real issues festering beneath the surface, resulting in physical and mental health issues down the road.

You can not numb your way to healing

True healing happens when you face your pain, process your emotions, and learn to reprogram the behaviors and beliefs keeping you in the cycle of suffering.

It’s time to wake up to the truth about these drugs and the system pushing them.

Ask yourself:

• Is my doctor prescribing this because they truly understand my needs and cares about ME, or because they’ve been sold a script by Big Pharma and have bills to pay to support the narrative of the rich doctor in the big house with the nice cars?
• Am I willing to settle for numbing the pain and settle for the rest of my life, or am I ready to do the hard work to truly heal?

The choice is yours.

Stop trusting the system that profits from your misery and start taking control of your healing journey.