antidepressants and violence

[scotty]

Originally Posted by jheaney1

Overall, violent crime in the United States has been diminishing over the past two decades. Antidepressants don't cause violence so much as exaggerate existing tendencies. That's what makes asserting causation so difficult.

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Yeah, I have to disagree with this also. I know of MANY cases of violence with ssri use in those with no violent tendencies before ssri's and none after coming off them. Remember, suicide is violence and if a drug can cause one to commit suicide, then it's not hard to imagine violence against others.

[Bruno2006]

Originally Posted by robert12

Most mass killers and serial killers are under the influence of some drug. Since antidepressants came out violence and suicide has increased. read the studies done by harvard, yale and columbia universities. The majority of murderer's are under the influence of some drug whether its dangerous prescription drugs or street drugs or alcohol they are under influence.

there wasnt much murders in the 1970's and 80s like there is now. i wonder why.

This just made me remember something-Tyler Brehm. This was a humanitarian guy who was going through a break up with gf. He suddenly, after taking "pills" from a pharma friend, went on a shooting spree in LA.

[robert12]

Originally Posted by Bruno2006

This just made me remember something-Tyler Brehm. This was a humanitarian guy who was going through a break up with gf. He suddenly, after taking "pills" from a pharma friend, went on a shooting spree in LA.

Yeah it happens often these days. These prescription mind altering drugs are 1000X more dangerous that street drugs. I talked to a woman on the net a few years ago who her sister killed herself after taking a drug called elavil. Her sister told me she left a suicide note and couldn't understand why she killed herself. she said she felt lost after taking that drug. It took her 20 years to know the truth. Now she knows and fights with others to ban these drugs.

Our society is falling due to prescription drugs.

[jheaney1]

Originally Posted by scotty

Yeah, I have to disagree with this also. I know of MANY cases of violence with ssri use in those with no violent tendencies before ssri's and none after coming off them. Remember, suicide is violence and if a drug can cause one to commit suicide, then it's not hard to imagine violence against others.

I worded that poorly. It's a confusing issue. There are cases of peaceful people acting violently after taking or stopping antidepressants. I experienced withdrawal rage and had to bite my tongue or consciously walk away from several situations. It's not as simple as saying that these drugs cause violence, though. Just as the companies' blanket assertion that they don't cause violence is too simplistic, making a single assertion that these drugs cause violence is likewise simplistic.

Originally Posted by scotty

I know of MANY cases of violence with ssri use in those with no violent tendencies before ssri's and none after coming off them.

So the bad personality changes caused by the drugs eventually went away?

[caperjackie]

With the advent of yet another attempted mass murder today I thought I would do a little research. It seems that although serial killers have been around for a very long time, mass murderers are relatively rare until around the 1990's ........

[Bruno2006]

Originally Posted by caperjackie

With the advent of yet another attempted mass murder today I thought I would do a little research. It seems that although serial killers have been around for a very long time, mass murderers are relatively rare until around the 1990's ........

We just had a shooting here in Texas near a university and the guy is thought to have been on meds but they will always just blame it on "mental illness". Nevermind the drugs, those are safe and effective they say.

I brought up this point earlier; mainly, that the mass shootings are rampent in the last years. What a mess

[Macadamia]

This happened to my dad who was a nice sweet kind gentle funny individual. He was on Prozac for many years and it finally pooped out. The doctor tried increasing the dose and my dad said it made him feel like killing himself or someone else (which if he would have acted on it would have been my mom). Totally out of character...