1st Trimester Antidepressant Use Tied to Autism Risk

PsychCentral ^ | April 17, 2014 | Rick Nauert

[rjsimmon]

I understand after research why am the way I am. All has been made clear. Thank You. I’m suing Mom.

You know, I now understand the way I am also. I think I will sue your mom too...

[no-to-illegals]

My case was first, brother.

[no-to-illegals]

Sis, is that you?

[Raycpa]

Does this prove women who suffer from depression are linked to autism or women being treated for depression? Also, is this only SSRI drugs and not other antidepressants..who funded? New drug company?

[rjsimmon]

My case was first, brother.

But Mom said she liked me best...

[Bogey78O]

We overmedicate people with anti-depressants.

Some things are depressing. Lost your job? Relationship fell apart? Loved one died? Folks need to work through their emotions rather than suppressing them.

[no-to-illegals]

I know .... I always understood why too.

[no-to-illegals]

It was all those flowers you picked for Mom when we were kids. I never could compete with you. I always brought dandelions when they were about to blow away. Made one heck of a mess and I'd just snicker. Did the neighbors ever catch you picking those tulips?

[no-to-illegals]

I remember that one time where you picked Mom’s tulips and sent me in to give those tulips to Mom. I got a whoopin’ never forgot. You were more intelligent taking the neighbor’s tulips. I tried that once too. Had seen you do it and get away and thought the way to Mom’s heart is stealing the neighbor’s tulips. So there I went to steal the neighbor’s tulips too. But unlike you, I got caught and then another whoopin’. Never could out compete you. {{HUGS}}, I know the truth. You never stole anything. Set myself up for another whoopin’.

[Black Agnes]

This would clearly NOT be a genetic cause.

If this environmental factor is a cause, there are likely other environmental factors that are also causes.

[Black Agnes]

“A woman is suspicious she’s become pregnant way before that point.”

Not if she’s got PCOS.

[rjsimmon]

Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk...

[Scoutmaster]

I do not know. The free abstract and paid access to the full study are available from Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

[Mach9]

Who knows how long the effects of certain drugs last in the body? It is known that some side-effects outlive the desired purpose of the drug.

[lonestar]

Some, if not most, were probably taken before the mother knew she was pregnant

[SgtHooper]

LOL!

[Mariner]

"I’m dumbfounded that anti-depressents would be prescribed or taken during pregnancy."

Smoking gun from the Me! generation.

Sure, ASD was around before SSRIs. But a 3fold increase is very significant.

[Mariner]

Part of the problem is that these women can't just "quit" SSRIs once they realize they might be pregnant.

They are HIGHLY addictive and they'll definitely blow a circuit, risking death, if they quit cold turkey.