A statement that I want to make--based on some politicians and a former newscaster. AntiDepressants

[debm55]

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do not make you murder men, women and children at a mall. It does not make you walk into a store, school, house of worship and do your thing with a gun. Not treating mental illness will do this. Taking anti-depressants give those taking them a more realistic view of like and a more reward life. They are not the magic wand that will heal all problems. However, with the pills and talking to a psychiatrist and psychologist.it will help.
I know because I take them.
And my life has been better. It's the freaking guns.
Good night everyone.

[Hestia]

1. After watching Life with Lisa Ling on CNN, there needs to be a deep dive into benzodiazepines

1. It has been known that benzo's are highly addictive since the 1980s - widespread Valium addictions during that time

2. Starting in the * years, children were given these drugs, especially in foster care, even though children should never be given these drugs and states so on the label

3. These drugs cannot be filtered out of the water systems in the US, unless something has changed within the last 5 years. so virtually every person who drinks tap water has been using these drugs - can this be why everyone is essentially nuts these days?

4. These drugs massive restructure and reshape the brain, quit working after awhile, but so highly addictive to your brain, you cannot quit taking them unless it is over a series of years - on the Lisa Ling episode, it has to be done 100 microliters per week, you essentially have to become a chemist in order to reduce your dosage

I think (from what I remember reading) the US is the only country to take these type of drugs at the levels people do today

Bears massive investigation, but jeez, guess who shuts down that discussion - Big Pharma

Yes, some people do need anti-depressants but something other than benzodiazepines

[debm55]

2. Thank you for your post, I am being weaned off of 2 of my 4 meds. Even before I took them I never

felt like and during. I never wanted to off anyone except myself. Will look up to see if it is benzodiazepines I am taking. I taught for 40 odd years and I am familiar with boys given drugs. Drugs alone don't work. counseling is needed also. PS I was on Valium many years ago but new and better meds are being used.

[NoRethugFriends]

3. benzos are not antidepressants

[emulatorloo]

4. +++++

[womanofthehills]

5. People react differently to drugs including antidepressants

Glad you were helped.


Lawsuit Over a Suicide Points to a Risk of Antidepressants

The last dinner Wendy Dolin had with her husband, Stewart, he was so agitated that he was jiggling his leg under the table and could barely sit still. He had recently started a new antidepressant but still felt very anxious. “I don’t get it, Wen,” he said.

The next day, Mr. Dolin, a 57-year-old Chicago lawyer, paced up and down a train platform for several minutes and then threw himself in front of an oncoming train.

Ms. Dolin soon became convinced that the drug her husband had started taking five days before his death — paroxetine, the generic form of Paxil — played a role in his suicide by triggering a side effect called akathisia, a state of acute physical and psychological agitation. Sufferers have described feeling as if they were “jumping out of their skin.”

The distress of akathisia may explain the heightened risk of suicide in some patients, some psychiatrists believe. The symptoms are so distressing, a drug company scientist wrote in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, that patients may feel “death is a welcome result.”
Ms. Dolin sued the original manufacturer of Paxil, GlaxoSmithKline, claiming the company had not sufficiently warned of the risks associated with the drug. In April, a jury awarded Ms. Dolin $3 million in damages. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/well/mind/paxil-antidepressants-suicide.html?login=email&auth=login-email

[TexasBushwhacker]

7. There can also be a heightened risk as you start to feel better

In my deepest depression, I was nearly catatonic. Stayed in bed all the time, couldn't eat. Taking your life requires ACTION. It's something one is warned about when you take antidepressants, if you have a good doctor. You may feel just good enough to go buy the gun, or the rope, or throw yourself in front of a train.

[Effete Snob]

6. Scientologists push that one

Scientologists are opposed to psychiatric medicine in general.