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Andreas psychosis was brough on by the drugs!! She was released from a mental hospital the day before she murdered the kids and killed them in a anti-depressant psychosis, which is a common side effect of these drugs... The truth is that when serotonin metabolism is impaired, as every one of the SSRIs do - this is thought to be their "therapeutic effect" - it has been shown for decades of medical research to produce impulsive murder and suicide. At this point we have a decade and a half of these drugs being used on the general population as proof that the research from the past several decades is indeed correct. Counting the dead from the SSRI induced impulsive murder and suicide will take a very long time. As if the problems with these drugs were not already bad enough, if Wyeth has their way we can just use college campuses as microcosms to help us see what adverse effects these drugs have upon a very vulnerable group within our society. It was in the spring of 2000 that Elizabeth Shin set herself on fire under the influence of Celexa in her dormitory room at MIT. But Wyeth's Effexor has been in the news so much this year you would think someone might have noticed some red flags popping up. To list only a few: First we had Andrea Yates go to trial for killing her five children while under the influence of both Effexor and Remeron at maximum dose of each drug. The drug companies have spent the past few years coming up with some powerful and very expensive anti-psychotics. They know when all those folks on Anti-Depressants finally start to come off of them, as many will when they press starts to share the facts as they have done this past week, that some, if not many will suffer from mania and psychosis. This is what the medical profession does. They come out with a proceedure or drug, and then when they have milked it long enough, and when they have something new waiting in the wings, they finally capitulate and let it die, all the while reaping a harvest off the new drug of the month, year, or decade. If the 90's were symbolized by Prozac and depression, the new millenium will be symbolized by Psychosis and all of these new expensive anti-psychotics.... just wait and see.... Jenny

I don't know about Andrea Yates, and whether abruptly stopping her medication made her worse. Actually she's a poor example because she needed to be an inpatient. Her husband probably told her she didn't need the drugs.

Brooke Shields is a better example. Post Partum Depression is a really scary thing. I'm blessed that except for a few days of baby blues, I didn't experience anything like what she did.

I take Zoloft to deal with some problems I'm having with my ex husband. The stress has led to two mild strokes. I'm not depressed, well I don't think I am. I just have to get through this crap, and need some help. Years ago, the doctor would have probably prescribed Valium. Lol, there are times where a Valium along with the Zoloft would be perfect!

For some people, the stuff works. For others, it doesn't. The Columbine killers were taking Paxil.

Andreas psychosis was brough on by the drugs!!

According to whom? A link specific to her case, including what drugs she was taking, when she was taking them, and most importantly if she stopped taking them would be nice.