Antidepressants may be trending, but misconceptions about the commonly prescribed medications abound.
On social media, influencers tout them as lifestyle medications that can turn around your life. But Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has branded SSRIs—or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, the most common class of antidepressants—as more addictive than heroin and linked them to violent episodes such as a recent church shooting in Minnesota.
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