
PTSF59 – Psychedelics and Bipolar, with Benjamin Mudge
Psychedelics Today
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The Side Effects of SSRI Drugs
Siroxert is an antidepressant prostate, it's marketed as the US. Before that happens, there's this big spike in dopamine. They're actually targeting dopamine at the beginning before they target serotonin. Now, what that does is if someone suicidal, but they haven't got the motivation to actually kill themselves, then the dopamine spike gives them the motivation to act on the suicidal ideation. There have been approximately one death by the suicide or murder from people taking so called SSRI drugs. Right. And that's that's common now with with bipolar people. Those pills are serotonergic and noradrenergic. Trigomania in a very large proportion of the bipolar population.
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