Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
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Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors has come up in 3 episodes across 3 podcasts in TMT, including The Shawn Ryan Show, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Megyn Kelly Show. 4 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Marcus KingAmerican singer, guitarist and founder of The Marcus King Band
King says he fears treating his depression could remove the pain that drives his songwriting.
“Yeah, being fearful that it's going to take your drive away because you don't have anything to create for”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2499 - Marcus King (May 14, 2026) · Listen from 1:40:14
King recounts that an earlier antidepressant left him emotionally numb even at his grandmother's funeral.
“Like, even at my grandmother's funeral, like, I just felt nothing. I just felt numb”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2499 - Marcus King (May 14, 2026) · Listen from 1:38:11
King says he wants to stop taking his antidepressant because he does not want lifelong dependence on a pharmaceutical.
“i don't like that i don't want to be like you know, enslaved by a drug, by a pharmaceutical drug, you know?”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2499 - Marcus King (May 14, 2026) · Listen from 1:30:49
Joe RoganAmerican comedian and host of The Joe Rogan Experience
Rogan asserts exercise is more effective than antidepressants for treating depression.
“They've shown that exercise is way more effective than antidepressants at actually helping people with depression”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2499 - Marcus King (May 14, 2026) · Listen from 1:34:17
Rogan argues the chemical-imbalance explanation for how SSRIs work has been discredited.
“They used to think that that was what these things do, that they treated a chemical imbalance”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2499 - Marcus King (May 14, 2026) · Listen from 1:32:29
Shawn RyanFormer U.S. Navy SEAL and CIA contractor, host of the Shawn Ryan Show
Ryan says he believes Americans are over-medicated and that Western medicine is unraveling.
“I think it's unraveling at a record pace right now. I think we are over-medicated”
The Shawn Ryan Show: #308 Dr. Tara Suwinyattichaiporn - TikTok's #1 Sex Educator on Why Relationships Are Failing (May 28, 2026) · Listen from 3:05:21
Tara SuwinyattichaipornThai-born tenured professor of Human Communication Studies at California State University, Fullerton, sex and relationship educator, and author of How Do You Like It?
Suwinyattichaiporn argues that Gen Z is heavily medicated and that SSRI use is correlated with low sex drive.
“There is a correlation between low sex drive and taking SSRI”
The Shawn Ryan Show: #308 Dr. Tara Suwinyattichaiporn - TikTok's #1 Sex Educator on Why Relationships Are Failing (May 28, 2026) · Listen from 3:09:06
Podcasts
- The Shawn Ryan Show · 1 episode
- The Joe Rogan Experience · 1 episode
- The Megyn Kelly Show · 1 episode
Episodes
#308 Dr. Tara Suwinyattichaiporn - TikTok's #1 Sex Educator on Why Relationships Are FailingThe Shawn Ryan Show · May 28, 2026 · 3 h 29 min
Shawn Ryan interviews sex educator Dr. Tara Suwinyattichaiporn about sexual communication, attraction, kink, masculinity, Gen Z loneliness, dating apps and porn.
#2499 - Marcus KingThe Joe Rogan Experience · May 14, 2026 · 2 h 53 min
Joe Rogan and guitarist Marcus King discuss sobriety, antidepressants, cannabis policy, the state of rock music, porn-era cinema, and VR gaming.
Alex Murdaugh Convictions OVERTURNED, with Vinnie Politan and Charlie Condon, and the TRUTH About the "Sex Recession," with Dr. Debra Soh | Ep. 1316The Megyn Kelly Show · May 13, 2026 · 2 h 13 min
Megyn Kelly discusses the overturning of Alex Murdaugh's murder convictions with Vinnie Politan and Charlie Condon, then the 'sex recession' with Debra Soh.