00:00I mean, if you really wanted to commit suicide, there's nothing I could do about it, but I wasn't going to make it easy.
00:18I just got back from Iraq. I used to drive her daughter to school, and I just had the worst thoughts.
00:25The school was going to blow up. All the kids would be dead. Oh my God, am I going to be the one that does it?
00:30She came into our bedroom. She was shaking. She said, the hallucination touched me and asked me to come into the kitchen so I could hurt myself.
00:41I genuinely thought that there were people here in the room. I knew that they weren't there, but they were there, and I couldn't explain that away.
00:50And he prescribed me this drop, lorazepam. I took it for six years.
00:53Wait, you took lorazepam for six years? Six and a half years.
00:57The package insert from the manufacturer clearly states lorazepam is only for short-term use, maybe two to four weeks.
01:03Dave told me probably on our third or fourth date that he was on medication for depression and ADHD.
01:11I went to the psychiatrist and said, you know, this stuff isn't for me. I need to get off it. I think the drug is my problem.
01:17That's really when shit hit the fan.
01:19They're in uppers and downers, and every time they go in, it's their deteriorating mental condition, instead of somebody saying, your drug may be your problem.
01:26I had brain zap. I had tremors. I had severe night sweats.
01:32In 1980, American Psychiatric Association adopted a disease model and began to tell that story to the American public.
01:40You know who was so happy with that story? The pharmaceutical industry.
01:43Which now wants to disease-ify every single experience because they want to sell their pills to treat it.
01:49So now we believe in magic bullets. Pretty soon we're going to be having magic bullets for everything.
01:54You are not able to be around soldiers and no weapons. You have PTSD now. Just take this medicine. It'll make you feel better.
02:01People come home from war and they're frequently grieving and suffering tremendously, but none of that's pathology. It's grief.
02:08We lost a 50-something-year-old woman whose doctor cold turkeyed her off of Klonibin, and she walked in front of a train because she couldn't deal with it anymore.
02:18One of the things that's happened in our culture is that normal has been confused by marketers of all kinds with comfortable.
02:26And if you're uncomfortable in any way, there's something wrong.
02:30And so now I'm like, it was not me. It was their fucking drugs.
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