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Podcast: Rise To More
Episode: Are We Broken Or Overmedicated? What Patients Aren’t Told About Mental Health Medication
Description: There are certain stories that do not simply inform you — they rearrange you.In 2003, a healthy thirty-seven-year-old man kissed his wife goodnight and went to sleep. He had just begun a dream job at a startup company. He and his wife were planning in vitro treatments to start a family. He was disciplined, responsible, a runner, deeply loved. He did not have a history of depression. He was not spiraling. He was not unraveling. He simply could not sleep.His doctor handed him a three-week sample pack of an antidepressant and assured him it would ta...