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Old 05-02-2007, 08:44 PM   #9 (permalink)
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How dangerous are anti-depressents?

I wonder if there is something about modern society that is causing these sorts of events? Too much time in front of a computer perhaps? Too much time spent watching TV and lurid DVDs?

Well, for one thing, drugs are not generally tested on young people. The younger the person is, the less we know about how that young person (college-age, say) would react to modern anti-depressants. (I note with interest that SSRIs--being one of the newest classes of anti-depressant medication--seem to be linked to violence, as opposed to older classes of anti-depressants such as MAOIs [which aren't prescribed often because of nasty side-effects and food-drug interactions] or tricyclics) There just aren't enough studies.

The other thing is that someone who was on anti-depressants to begin with isn't... well... sane (that's a technical term). Due to the chemical imbalance caused by organically-based mental illness, there is likely to be a predisposition to destructive behavior.

Just my 2 cents.

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