Reply #23: I agree with what you say..however

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there is much more research on the effects of antidep. and much of it comes too late for many.

It is true that a clinically depressed person simply hasn't the energy to carry out the act of suicide. And that once the mood is lifting whether by drugs or psychotherapy the person has enough energy to succeed.

My experience and findings with antideps is that it can be the drug itself that causes a person's desire to self-destruct. This is the side effect that the pharma's don't want to tell.
For some people these SSRI's are a blessing, but for many they have caused devastating situations in ones life.

The biggest complaint I hear is the effect on a person's "recall". Memory can be forever affected.
Another one to top the list is "depersonalization", or living in their own world.
A most devote and caring person will just move farther away from those roles that once were their nature.
Emotion is put in a holding pattern..a "numbness" with little reaction. Some have a natural instinct to overcompensate for this depersonalized state, and resort to anything that will bring about a range of emotion. This is more reactive than deliberate, though.
This often results in extremes of behavior, sometimes involving criminal acts.

This is documented and many researchers and clinicians are now finding a complexity in the relation between random people and antidepressants.
Unfortunately the courts can tell us a lot about the cases they deal with and haw many relate to this very thing.

It is not a myth. It is NOT concocted by trial lawyers looking to make a buck..It is a case of limited studies of pharmas to profit, more than any lawyer of person whose life has collapsed under the uncertainty of a prescriptive drug ever will.