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.
Medicares = medicated
Antidepressants work by causing ‘flattening of effect’, otherwise known as “numbness”.
When you can’t “feel” sad, you might mistake it for “happy”..or you might just feel numb enough to kill yourself or others.
“Numbness” is one of the top ‘side effects’ of these drugs.
If you’ve never taken them, you have no idea what you’re talking about.
Agree... to a point. It takes a certain evil to commit these acts and the medicine does not cause the evil. The medicine does, however, put you in a surreal, dreamlike state that limits inhibitions as well as cognitive reasoning. I don’t blame the medicine itself, but children should not be taking mind altering drugs, especially on a permanent basis, before their brains have even fully developed.
The drugs are garbage. And it’s not just the antidepressants. ALL of the FDA approved mind and mood altering drugs garbage, and Everyone in the industry knows it, and lies about it or issues a No Comment.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/medicatedchild/
http://alert.psychiatricnews.org/2012/06/military-suicides-continue-troubling.html
http://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/newsarticle.aspx?articleid=1096602
http://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/newsarticle.aspx?articleid=108552
http://www.opednews.com/articles/5/genera_evelyn_p_080122_jury_trials_in_2008_.htm 70% driving impaired
http://www.ssristories.com/show.php?item=3991
suicide, mania
http://alert.psychiatricnews.org/2012/05/facebook-joins-fight-against-military.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-bobrow/military-suicides-stigma-_b_1677798.html
http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/06/08/lagging-indicator/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaWrf8OISlg
John Breeding on youtube
http://psychrights.org/states/Texas/100209JBreedingLtr2TxLegislature.pdf
Breeding Letter
http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/story/2012-06-07/military-troops-suicide/55453990/1
w/video
http://www.frontiersin.org/Evolutionary_Psychology/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00117/full
Antidepressants do more harm than good
http://www.psychologytoday.com/print/68229
tardive dysphoria/chronic ssri use
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebound_effect
rebound effect
http://truthman30.wordpress.com/
check his blogroll
http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/psychiatric-drugs/antipsychotics/neuroleptic-brain-damage
Brain Damage neuroleptics
http://breggin.com/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=53&dir=DESC&order=date&Itemid=37&limit=10&limitstart=40
Peter Breggin
Brain damage, dementia and persistent cognitive dysfunction associated with neuroleptics (1990)
01/01/1990
Brain damage, dementia and persistent cognitive dysfunction associated with neuroleptics: Evidence, Etiology, Implications.