Depression Cure: What Works? - Dr. Dave Rabin

Name: Depression Cure: What Works? - Dr. Dave Rabin
Uploaded: 2024-07-21T14:00:31+00:00
Duration: 55 s
Channel: Claudia von Boeselager
Description: In this segment, the speaker critiques the current standard of care for depression and PTSD, which relies heavily on selective serotonin reuptake…

21 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker critiques the current standard of care for depression and PTSD, which relies heavily on selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) such as Paxil and Zoloft. While acknowledging that SSRIs can provide short‑term stabilization, the speaker emphasizes their poor long‑term outcomes: over 70% of PTSD patients never achieve lasting remission, and even when SSRIs appear effective, about 80% of patients relapse after discontinuation, leading to a lifelong diagnosis. The discussion then introduces MDMA as a potential alternative therapeutic approach, suggesting that it may address the shortcomings of SSRIs, though the excerpt does not detail its efficacy.

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right now, the current standard of care for treating depression or PTSD is SSRIs, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors like Paxil and Zoloft. And these medicines are often good at stabilizing people, but they are not good long-term, and most people never actually get better. And I would say on the order of, with PTSD, it's like over 70% of people, 70, 7-0%, are never getting better from PTSD. They always have a diagnosis for life with SSRI treatment alone, even if you try both and try and therapy and everything. So that's like not a good statistic. So with the way MDMA, and what happens is when, even if the drugs do work for people, if they stop taking them, they relapse almost like 80% of the time, they have become symptomatic again, right? So it's really like a medication for life strategy in the current paradigm that we're