‼️The Drug They're Giving Seven-Year-Olds Has a 59% Rate of Permanent Sexual Dysfunction

Danielle Gansky was seven years old when she was first prescribed psychiatric medication. The side effects were misread as worsening mental illness, so more drugs were added to treat the symptoms the first drugs had caused. By the time she decided to come off them, the withdrawal felt, in her words, like being dropped into a living nightmare of nonstop physical and psychological torment. Being alive simply felt unbearable.

And then there was Lauren, who stood up and testified about something indescribable - Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction. She suffers from complete genital numbness. She has ZERO sensation.

At 23, she described it as a form of chemical castration. It is permanent and caused by medications prescribed to children who had no idea what they were agreeing to. She cannot feel love for her own mother. She cannot feel a connection to her friends.

She was neurologically severed by drugs given to her before she was old enough to understand what was being taken from her.

50% to 70% of SSRI patients experience sexual side effects. There is no black box warning, and no requirement to tell parents that the medication they are giving their seven-year-old carries a greater than 50% chance of permanent sexual dysfunction. It is absolutely horrific.

Del walked out of that conversation and called Aaron Siri. A new lawsuit is being filed. That is what this community makes possible: the moment a story becomes this outrageous, the resources exist to do something about it.

Though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death, we fear no evil here at The HighWire. And neither do you.

@delbigtree