Tea at Trianon: Antidepressants Increase 130% for Teen Girls, Drop 7% For Boys

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Friday, October 10, 2025

Antidepressants Increase 130% for Teen Girls, Drop 7% For Boys

From Brownstone Insights:

I know exactly when I realized we’d lost our collective minds. It was 2020-2021, watching the parade of teenage girls through my center. Every week, more of them. Each one clutching an SSRI prescription like a badge of honor, proof that their suffering was real, that they weren’t making it up. The drug had become their validation. Without it, they were just dramatic teenagers. With it, they had a legitimate medical condition.
They’d been told they needed these drugs. Not might benefit from them. Not could try them. NEEDED them. Like diabetics need insulin. And they believed it.
I started my podcast, started screaming into the void on Twitter about what I was witnessing. The response? I was anti-science. I was dangerous. I was the crazy one for suggesting that maybe, just maybe, medicating an entire generation of teenage girls wasn’t normal.
But I wasn’t crazy. A recent study in Pediatrics just proved everything I was warning about. Between 2020 and 2022, antidepressant prescriptions for girls aged 12-17 skyrocketed by 130%.
One hundred and thirty percent. In two years. (Read more.)