Psychiatrists to brand grief lasting longer than two weeks a mental illness

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95. I'm glad you think you know how these pills "work...."

But I think you are totally wrong about this.

I lost my son to cystic fibrosis over 14 years ago. I STILL mourn him. I love him and always will, until the day that I die. And I will grieve for him for the rest of my life. Who do these people think they are to label those feelings as a mental illness?

I have taken these "pills" previously. I had an adverse reaction to them--akathisia. Akathisia, it is thought, is the state that actually leads people to want to kill themselves and act out violently towards others. I was lucky enough to know what was happening to me and lucky enough to have it happen early on in the course of my "treatment" with these pills, so that I could get off of them, and simply wait out their effects. Some people are not so lucky.

I am absolutely against arming anyone, even the police, even the military, so I'm far from a "gun nut," but I believe that the reason for the increase in these mass killings--rampage killings, like Columbine, Aurora, etc.-- is the adverse effects of these drugs.

And, now, these people who stand to profit enormously from the sale of these pills, and who are even now, administering these drugs to our most helpless --children-- DESPITE the danger, want to label anyone who is mourning for more than two weeks as mentally ill, so that they can administer these drugs to them, as well?

I think not.