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@ Colby Serpa 🧬
2025-04-24 01:20:11
On this day, years ago, my uncle died from suicide. His mind was driven to the edges of schizophrenia by SNRIs & SSRIs. Prescribed to quit smoking cigarettes, little did he know those awful drugs would be much worse than cigs.
Totally normal guy, completely destroyed by bad drugs prescribed by negligent doctors. It was an absolutely evil series of events that unfolded. One doctor prescribing him SNRIs for quitting cigs, another doctor prescribing him SSRIs to relieve the depression induced by the SNRIs. Absolute idiocy. These companies have been sued for millions and their only concession was to put a warning label on the body that SSRIs may cause suicide. Antidepressants that cause suicide?… What kind of brave new world BS is America permitting?
Food dyes kill you slowly but these drugs are given to the most vulnerable people in our society & can rob them of their minds.
I miss him so much, he was a black belt who always spoke his mind. Aggressive but honest and the coolest uncle. Ever since I lost him and Omar, I’ve been driven to find a way to reconfigure the pharmaceutical industry like Satoshi did to banking. I was aiming for this before he died, before I got into cryptography, but he escalated that desire into a necessity.
A sly roundabout way out of the maze of off-target side-effects and dreadful bureaucracy. Permissionless development of precision medicine with quantum physics. It’s the only way to gain selectivity without bruteforce iterations. Like AlphaFold but perfect.
I hope to achieve that dream one day. But most importantly, I hope these terrible options are removed from the market so this can’t happen to anyone else. Better options must exist, and we will find them. From NSI-189 to GLYX-13 and more, there are promising pathways beyond blindly blasting the brain with serotonin and norepinephrine. Even scientifically, SNRIs seem naive — pure adrenaline and serotonin isn’t the answer.
RIP ~ to the coolest uncle ever. 🙏
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