Anonymous #2 3w

The headline is clearly rage bait and I am not sure why this discussion is warranted. Adolescent suicide rates are at an all time high. Sexual dysfunction is something people can discuss with their doctors…it’s side effect, not a permanent consequence of the meds. I also feel like worrying about how much sex people are having feeds into MAGA-adjacent concerns about the birth rate.

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Anonymous #1 3w

Why?

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Anonymous #2 3w

Yeah but it shouldn’t be a headline at all time where we have people in government who want to ban antidepressants

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Anonymous OP 3w

Yeah that’s a problem with how they are trying to make everything conservative. But you can have multiple conversations at once. Sadly yeah the government we have is trying to demonize everything but that shouldn’t mean we should censor and push down anything. We should and should be able to have discussions about medicine and its side effects especially in the long term. But that doesn’t mean you should call those conversations propaganda. And that shouldn’t mean we should ban the medicine.

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Anonymous OP 3w

In this time we are afraid of and we also write off nuanced discussions, we cannot have an all or nothing environment because all it does is silence people

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Anonymous #2 3w

I still don’t understand, sexual side effects are a temporary side effect. I don’t know why there needs to be a major headline…and for children to be the focus.

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Anonymous #2 3w

We don’t have the ability to silence the New York Times, but they absolutely should not have printed that headline. I’m not saying the article itself shouldn’t exist, but it should not have that headline This is the same paper that recently printed as a headline “Did women ruin the workplace?” Their editors have been reckless with these things lately which is particular dangerous in our current political moment

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Anonymous #3 3w

Yeah I agree. The headline is bad. Young adults instead of teens. Also I would instead just name it “researchers have been studying long term effects of sex drives with antidepressants on young adults” or something along the line. I didn’t know of that previous article.

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Anonymous #2 3w

Exactly, that’s what I thought too. Young adults would have been so much better.

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Anonymous OP 3w

I agree with the children thing. But it could be temporary within it being heavily apparent. But also it could have long term effects especially if exposed for a long period of time from a young age still in development. Theres alot of reasons why therapists now are heavily reluctant to start young children on medication. Sadly I was caught in the early 2000’s phase where they dished it out to any kid who simply fidgeted too much

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Anonymous OP 3w

Because it’s a serious side effect that many patients aren’t being properly made aware of

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