Does it strike anyone as important that the CT shooter had Aspergers and it is often treated with...

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95. I think it's something we should consider, if not for everyone then at least under certain criteria,

such as uncertainty of diagnosis. I would have been saved weeks of hell if someone had just seen what was happening to me on Cymbalta. It wasn't that the med is bad, it was just bad for _me_ because I was an undiagnosed bipolar person not on mood stabilizers while on an SSRI, which tends to destabilize mood disorders.

I knew something was wrong, but since I lived my whole life assuming that my mental illness was a character flaw and not a physiological disorder, I didn't seek help right away. The drug script was written for me by my GP, who was trying to help me with the deep depression I had entered after losing my mother. She did refer me to a psychiatrist once she knew what was going on, because she doesn't feel qualified to monitor my bipolar disorder, but if I had been hospitalized or at least had to check in daily with outpatient services someone probably would have seen the mixed state and mania I kept bouncing around in and gotten me off the Cymbalta right away.

Of course, in order to do something like this we would need the kind of healthcare and workers' rights you find in socialist countries. Way more paid days off and better health care coverage than we can even dream of here right now.