“I took Zoloft in 2022… ” Nobody told Lauren Freidman that 4 years later, she would have permanently lost all emotional and sexual function. “The day I woke up with this injury, I quite literally felt my soul leave my body.” Stop scrolling for 5 minutes to hear her story: “Had I known that this medication had the capacity to cause permanent loss of sexual and emotional function, I would have sought alternatives.” “Had I known SSRIs were prescribed off-label to chemically castrate sex offenders, I would have never taken this medication.” “Had I known that the leading sexual medicine doctors in the world are finding SSRIs cause fibrosis of the genitals… I would have never taken this medication.” “I’m living with a condition called Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction.” “50-70% of all patients taking these will have sexual side effects.” “What patients are not warned about is that these side effects can be permanent.” “I’m 23 years old.” “I don’t think it’s sensational to say that this is a form of chemical castration.” “PSSD is not just a loss of sexual function, but a loss for some people of emotional function as well.” “I can’t feel love for my own mother.” “Which is the hardest thing on Earth.” “I can’t feel connection or love for my friends, or even pleasure in music.” “I was a songwriter since I was a child. It was my outlet.” “And it’s been completely neurologically severed from these medications.” “There’s a reason that every song on the radio, every movie on your television, every piece of art since the beginning of humanity centers on sex and love, and not just romantic love, but platonic, familial love.” “These are the most central, intoxicating, worthwhile, and fulfilling parts of the human experience.” “To remove someone’s ability to emotionally connect with another human being is a crime against humanity.” “And I say crime against humanity because there is evidence that Eli Lilly, who created the first SSRI, Prozac, knew their drugs could cause permanent sexual dysfunction and emotional numbness.” “They withheld this from the public because they knew it would be a threat to their bottom line.” “There’s nothing more criminal or dystopian to withhold from patients and parents of patients that your medication can permanently chemically castrate and emotionally numb its user.” “The FDA actually received a citizen’s petition from sufferers in 2018 begging the risk be added to the label.” “And it was completely ignored.” “If this correction was made, I would have had full informed consent.” “I could have chosen an alternative.” “I would have been spared from the most inorganic, inhumane suffering I could have ever imagined.” “But that decision was made for me because of pharmaceutical greed and regulatory failure that has kept the general public in the dark about the truth of these drugs.” “22-year-old women and men like myself have ended their lives because, I think we can agree, life is not worth living when you can’t feel it or participate in it.” “People deserve to know the truth.” “People should not pay with their lives for trusting the medical system.” Nobody told millions of others just like Lauren that her decision to take an SSRI would spiral into permanent, lifelong injuries. We want to hear your “Nobody Told Me” story. Because you are not alone. Millions of young people are suffering through the exact same things. Please share your story below, or post a video sharing your story and tag us @_innercompass. @MAHA_Institute @lololizzle