Some of us have been on the front lines figuring out this stuff years before anyone was publicly acknowledging it. I am sharing this info and collection in response to the two recent @nytimes articles.
By Robert Whitaker When I was researching Anatomy of an Epidemic and sought to track the number of people receiving a disability payment between 1987 and 2007 due to “mental illness,” I was frustrated by the lack of diagnostic clarity in the data. The Social Security Administration would list, in its annual reports on the... Continue Reading →
this post includes a collection of links to additional information about antidepressants and antidepressant withdrawal.
Please respond to the survey in the Guardian. It includes questions about withdrawal. We can let people know how gravely harmful these drugs are to so many people: LET OUR VOICES BE HEARD!! … [click on title to read and view more]
Whatever actually brings someone to violence is likely going to be a complex combination of events and/or causes, but it's undeniable at this point that SSRIs are associated with increased violence in some people.
Numb the movie: It's good that a visual documentation of the possible horror of antidepressant withdrawal will now be available. It seems some people learn better via film and video.
31 Rx drugs associated with reports of violence towards others (most of them psychiatric) ~~ This is a discussion no one seems to want to have. What happens when a small percentage of the MULTI MILLIONS of people one these medications go over the edge? Too often people just think these people are "mentally ill." Well, there has been lots of evidence that suggests it might be the drugs they're taking that send them over the edge. Contrary to popular belief those labeled with mental illnesses are NOT inherently more prone to violence
