The Truth About Pills & Personality 😳 💊
Neal Brennan and Dr. Arthur C. Brooks discuss how the birth control pill and SSRIs impact the brain and affect creativity. From the Blocks Podcast with Neal Brennan.
Full Episode: https://youtu.be/iTapxei018Y
Watch Neal Brennan: Crazy Good on Netflix:
https://www.netflix.com/title/81728557
Theme music by Electric Guest (unreleased).
Edited by Will Hagle (wthagle@gmail.com)
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@johnjones3332
July 18, 2026 at 5:04 am
zoloft is a stimulant derivative. all SSRIs are not the same. you have to study history of how drug was discovered.
@vandergruff
July 18, 2026 at 5:04 am
Just the guy finish a sentence.
@Anson120
July 18, 2026 at 5:04 am
Everyone blabs about SSRis, however they fail to mention SNRis. They are alot better. And why the hell does everyone have to fall in love? lol. SNRis dont affect my creativity at all. I am hyper creative and experience hyperphantasia ,so I guess I am different. I have treatment resistant depression and take 2 types of snris. A thing that helps the most is M.speciosa. It works as a good add on to my meds. That is only me though. Depression without meds is basically walking brain death.
@BBigg-kh7pz
July 18, 2026 at 5:04 am
I used to be a neuroscientist, everything in neuroscience is not contested. Neuroscience is a hard science. It's grounded in physics, chemistry, physiology, and anatomy. Personality pyscology is a social science, much of it is contested bc it's subjective. You might use statistical analysis as an objective measure, but the interpretation, many of the assessments and tests, and even the the answers given by participants are subjective. It would be insane if it wasn't contested. Not sure why he said that, I mean basically everything he discussed was not only subjective but subject to change. I think the most objective you could ever get on the psychology of personality is the history of how our views on the matter have changed over time. It's the scientific method applied to speculation, your results may vary.
@Good_Luck_Finding_Diamonds
July 18, 2026 at 5:04 am
… the way you gave him hell.