{"id":227139,"date":"2025-10-20T09:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/227139\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:37:09","slug":"girl-take-your-crazy-pills-antidepressants-recast-as-a-hot-lifestyle-accessory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/227139\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Girl, Take Your Crazy Pills!\u2019 Antidepressants Recast as a Hot Lifestyle Accessory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ey8kcqm2 e1bc1vag0 css-1o09hy1-StyledNewsKitParagraph\" data-type=\"paragraph\" data-testid=\"paragraph\" font-size=\"16\">Corinne Byerley, a stay-at-home mom, recalled days when she felt lonely, overwhelmed and, at times, paralyzed with anxiety and self-doubt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ey8kcqm2 e1bc1vag0 css-1o09hy1-StyledNewsKitParagraph\" data-type=\"paragraph\" data-testid=\"paragraph\" font-size=\"16\">Byerley, who had neither health insurance nor money for psychotherapy, said she was intrigued hearing a former MTV star talk up Lexapro on a podcast in 2023. She searched for the drug on TikTok, her go-to information source, and found #lexaprotok and similar niche online communities, where women in their 20s and 30s praised the benefits of antidepressants.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a92025 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Corinne Byerley, a stay-at-home mom, recalled days when she felt lonely, overwhelmed and, at times, paralyzed with anxiety&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[137455,64,63,482,137453,137,500,137454,137451,9865,57233,137457,137456,28510,514,515,8488,2041,4334,21298,31345,91072,31350,1055,31352,137452],"class_list":["post-227139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-adverse-drug-reactions","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-general-news","tag-gfx-reporting","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-healthcare-life-sciences","tag-leder","tag-life-sciences","tag-medical-conditions","tag-medical-treatments","tag-medical-treatments-procedures","tag-mental-disorders","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-mood-disorders","tag-north-america","tag-pharmaceuticals","tag-political","tag-political-general-news","tag-procedures","tag-synd","tag-united-states","tag-wsj-pro-wsj-com","tag-wsjinvestigations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}