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

[lynne]

38. My cousins husband took a shotgun to my cousin and then to their adult child -

- before putting the gun in his mouth and blowing his own head off. He had been depressed and had just begun taking Xanax. It was later discovered that he was taking too much of it - the old "if one will make me feel better then three should make me feel great" syndrome.

This was a full grown man who had battled depression before without incident. This was also before they began to associate some of these drugs with suicidal tendencies.

Was it the Xanax that pushed him over the edge? Guess we'll never know. Do I think that there's a connection between mental illness, these drugs, and the mass murders listed above? Oh, yes.