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> People with cabinets full of dozens of supplement bottles that were chosen based on studies, too. Then they finally decided to try real antidepressant medications and wished they’d done it sooner.

Here's the thing - if you click a button and pay a dollar your supplement will be there at your door in hours.

Getting a SSRI is a whole damn thing

Lot of drugs - mental health, low cholesterol, low blood pressure -- a lot of drugs along the lines of "take them rest of your life" -- ought to be OTC you ask me. Of course medicine would hate that because the red tape of going in, checking a box, and getting a script, is a nice little profit center. Not as much as racket as say spine surgeries, but a bread & butter small time racket. Here's a question, has anyone tried making these OTC and measuring risk & reward, deaths vs lives saved? Or measure healthcare costs? Because I'm willing to venture lots of lives would be helped, families whole, at a much lower cost.

parent betty_staples 9 months ago

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