📚 2 Books mentioned in "Laura Delano: The Dark Truth About Antidepressants, SSRIs, and the Psychiatrists Lying for Profit" of The Tucker Carlson Show
Podcast: The Tucker Carlson Show
Episode: Laura Delano: The Dark Truth About Antidepressants, SSRIs, and the Psychiatrists Lying for Profit
Published on June 6, 2025
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!
Anatomy of an Epidemic
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And then it was in that space that I found a book by a medical journalist named Robert Whitaker. The book is called Anatomy of an Epidemic. And in a nutshell, he was curious about the fact that outcome long-term outcomes for people diagnosed with schizophrenia are much better in the you know so-called third world and countries where we don't have where they don't have these sophisticated medicines.
Laura Delano mentions finding this book by Robert Whitaker, which presented data suggesting that psychiatric drugs might worsen long-term outcomes, leading her to question her own treatment.
Prozac nation
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So, this is a phrase that I first heard maybe 30 years ago when I the first person I knew started taking an SSRI, Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wartzell. It was this whole like Time magazine promoted idea that depression, mental illness of all kinds was caused by a quote chemical imbalance in the brain.
Tucker Carlson mentions the book and author while discussing the origin and promotion of the 'chemical imbalance' theory associated with SSRIs.