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“They'd sooner tolerate some hallucinations. That's a hard one. So there's that picture of the SSRIs that also came to be Prozac, Zoloft's past. All of that. Well, again, they're the second generation of antidepressants. So that's a complicated story.”
“Not to say that it's not effective for a lot of depression. It was actually a sort of the first SSRI fluoxetine was a... Which is Prozac? Yes. Exactly. Generic Prozac developed by Eli Lilly in a targeted way to block the serotonin reuptake pump.”
“Now, there are certain more pure SSRIs. So it sounds like Prozac was a very pure SSRI. Perhaps. Generic Lexapro, Escitalopram might be the best example. Got it. From my understanding right now, of a pure SSRI.”
“Not necessarily, but the side effect profile tends to be better. So remember, when fluoxetine came out, the first SSRI, really the first of the next generation of anti-anxiety antidepressants to call them dual-intended targets.”
“And they're just not well understood. It's not like, hey, if we're going to give you Prozac, we sort of know that most people respond at this dose. Some people need it to be at this dose.”