Why I lost faith in antidepressants after working at FDA

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Click here if you need help quitting psychiatric medications: https://membership.taperclinic.com/sign-up - Get our free tapering course: https://membership.taperclinic.com/free-taper-guide - Join +6000 people learning how to taper on our newsletter: https://membership.taperclinic.com/newsletter CONNECT WITH ME: - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjosefwittdoerring/ - TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drjosefwittdoerring - X/Twitter: https://x.com/DrJosefWD - Website: https://taperclinic.com/ For decades, antidepressants have been promoted as effective treatments for managing depression, backed by scientific research. But what if the reality is more complex than we've been led to believe? In this video, Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring, a board-certified psychiatrist and former FDA medical officer, dives deep into how antidepressant trials are conducted and exposes the hidden flaws in the research. He shares his journey from medical school to questioning the mainstream narrative, exploring why antidepressants may not be as effective as commonly thought. We’ll cover the design of short-term and long-term antidepressant studies, the placebo effect, tolerance issues, and the critical gaps in what these studies reveal. By the end, you’ll have a clearer understanding of why the 'effectiveness' of antidepressants might not be what it seems. Chapters 00:00 Summary 00:46  Medical School and What I Was Taught About Antidepressants 01:26  Questioning Antidepressants After Seeing Patients’ Reactions 02:57  What I Discovered Inside Drug Companies and the FDA 03:55 Antidepressant Clinical Trials 04:10  Short-Term Antidepressant Studies: How They Work 06:32  Major Criticisms of Short Term Antidepressant Trials 19:15  How Long-Term Antidepressant Studies Are Conducted 22:04 Major Criticisms of Long Term Antidepressant Studies 28:34 Conclusion: What We Can and Can’t Say About Antidepressants We are accepting patients into our drug tapering program living in CA, NY, TX, PA, CO, UT, TN, NM, GA, FL and NJ. Please watch the following webinar to learn more about our clinic and our drug tapering program: https://www.taperprogram.com/register-ig All my Links: https://beacons.ai/drjosef Please consider "liking" and subscribing to this content. It helps build awareness. CONTENT DISCLAIMER: All the information on this channel is for educational or entertainment purposes and not intended to be specific/personal medical advice from me to you. Watching the videos, or getting answers to comments/question, does not establish a doctor-patient relationship. If you have your own doctor, perhaps these videos can help prepare you for your discussion with your doctor. COMMENTS POLICY: We’re doing our best to help spread awareness with these videos, but for legal reasons we can’t answer health questions in the comments. So if you leave questions, we’ll try to make videos about common questions in the future! If we catch incorrect health information, hate speech, illegal solicitation of drugs in the comments, we will remove them. WANT AN INTERVIEW? We are always looking for unique stories of people who experience adverse reactions to psych meds to interview here on YouTube and on our Podcast. If this is you, please submit an application here: https://upload.vloggi.com/projects/YXLW-001