THE ROLE OF ANTI-DEPRESSANTS IN MASS KILLINGS - Michael Moore on THE REAL LESSON OF COLUMBINE...

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33. Yeah, this article is pretty irresponsible.

Its true, there are sober minded articles from scientific sources that show benefits of getting off psych meds long term for mental health issues, and not over-prescribing them. Often people don't need them, and even when they do, like a crutch, you eventually should find a way stop using it to recover fully.

But right after you break your leg, you damn well need that crutch.

That's what the anti-psychiatric and anti psych med superheroes don't get: The way this stuff works short term for people in crisis. The risk is when people ignore the guy who was about to blow his brains out before getting meds, or the person who was wandering the streets screaming at voices before being stabilised with meds... in order to focus on people who didn't really need to be on them in the first place.

What I really wish these people would do is volunteer with severely mentally ill people. Once they've spent some time with psychotics, with paranoid schizophrenics, with suicidal or depressed individuals. Once they had seen what the meds do, they would stop broadcasting the idea that taking your psych meds will make you a zombie killer: an idea which is sowing far MORE craziness in the world than it is removing.