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I try not to think about it too much but it's frightening how fast some of Trump admin's orders are affecting the US. Like today I heard RFK (Trump's secretary of health) is examining the threat posed by the prescription of SSRIs and other psychiatric medications. To be blunt, I am alive because I take anti-depressants on a daily basis. I am furious that a president can put in place someone who is threatening to take away the essential medications of millions of Americans. Like, am I going to have to stockpile this stuff? And like other far right politicians, he's pushing the notion that these medications are overprescribed and that people just need to toughen up more, which is only going to make the mental health crisis worse. MAGA claims that depression is only increasing because of wokeness and coddling, but they forget that for decades most men learned to suppress their emotions through destructive habits and behaviors like drinking or lashing out at family members. They also conveniently forget that people who struggled with these conditions often were ignored, put into mental institutions, or ended their own lives. They have this awful rose-tinted view of the past that is threatening to tear down all the protections and institutions we've made to help Americans in the past few decades.
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