“Well, DUH!” ping.
No one has figured this out before now?
Makes me glad I’m off my meds...
Oh, “linked,” is it? How I love “journalism.” How many of the kabillions of kids on pills ever commit mass murder? A vanishingly infinitesimal subset, no doubt.
Did it occur to anyone that they got Medicares and killed people because of the same underlying problem? That being screwlooseism, for lack of a better term.
This reminds me of how people like to pretend antidepressants cause suicide. I’ll tell you how that works. There is such a thing as being too depressed to kill yourself. If the pills work you are happier, have more energy, and finally can follow through on things, for instance killing yourself.
Mass murder takes a lot of planning and some nerve. Who wants to bother when they’re feeling blue? Antidepressants give you that getupandgo you need to accomplish your goals, for instance killing others.
Additionally 60 Minutes had a segment that exposed the fact that there “is no therapeutic effect” from these. So, in view of this and the fact that the use of these powerful mind altering drugs are implicated in virtually every one of these horrific events why is the focus not on banning these drugs?
The world wonders.
I believe they are also responsible for the enormous uptick in military suicides. They are responsible for countless acts of unbridled rage. They do NOT stop depression. They supress the natural inhibitions that prevent people from acting in ways they would never do normally.
Back in the 90s schools started pressuring parents to put their kids (mostly boys) on Ritalin. I guess they got used to the idea to use drugs to control kid’s behavior. Maybe these drugs shouldn’t be given to kids after all.
I doubt that it’s the antidepressants themselves, but a combination of the Rxs with whatever condition is being treated... a fact which lends itself to greater examination of mental health in general.
If it were just the antidepressants, we’d be seeing an exponentially larger number of killings then we are now, because those types of drugs are in extremely widespread use.
“Wild Bill” [rest his soul] took *all* the psych meds the VA generously handed out, even though he didn’t need them.
Every month, The Goody Box showed up at his house.
[which was a very popular ‘hangout’ on that day]
He was a VN vet but perfectly fine.
He just wanted the free ‘gubmint buzz’.
One day, for no apparent reason, he jumped onto his Harley and drove it full tilt into a stone wall, in front of his horrified friends.
Well, I’m now starting to wonder whether we’re seeing a cause-and-effect relationship here.
Has anyone stopped to wonder whether there are some of us that will do this evil things regardless?
And, often it’s not the meds that cause the problem; it’s when someone quits taking meds that results. I’ve seen this in bi-polar people personally. They function just fine in interpersonal situtations, but take them off their meds and they become crackpots.
I can’t believe there are a$$hole$ in the medical profession who prescribe these things to people who have severe mental problems and are a danger to themselves and others.
These things do not CURE the problem. They MASK the problem, so the patient goes around with a silly-a$$ grin and replys “yes” to the question “are you feeling happy?” The shrink writes down “yes” in his book and is safe from a lawsuit.
The underlying problem is still there. The pills contain chemicals that give a happy feeling and so all the a$$hole$ think everything is OK.
All the killers on that list, except for one, are male. Why don’t anti depressants make females homicidal maniacs?
every single gun shooter was found to be taking these suicide pills.
There is a timeline on Wikipedia of school shootings in America from the 1700’s, one case every few years either a disgruntled student or teacher who was fired would kill someone... then the mass shootings took off in 1989 - the year Prozac was introduced - coincidence ??
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