On social media, especially TikTok,
there's a growing community of young people talking about their antidepressants.
I started diving down and pretty quickly came across hashtags like lexapro, girly, and lexaho.
Oh, TikTok.
Yeah, it was just huge.
I'm Betsy McKay.
I'm a senior writer covering health and medicine for the Wall Street Journal.
And I'm Shalini Ramachandran.
I'm an investigative reporter at the Wall Street Journal.
For over a year now,
Betsy and Shalini have been on an investigative journey into some of the most commonly prescribed medications out there,
psychiatric drugs.
I mean, we've talked to hundreds of people at this point.
We've talked to patients.
We've talked to doctors.
We've talked to researchers.
As they dug into psychiatric drugs,
they found that corner of the internet where thousands of people are sharing their positive experiences.
On TikTok alone, The hashtag anti-depressants has more than 1.3 billion views.
I feel like one thing that Lexbro has, like,