I think I understand your position. So don’t take it personally. These drugs are good for Nothing. They don’t Cure anything. They can’t legally Claim to Cure Anything.
Antidepressants Do More Harm Than Good.
http://www.frontiersin.org/Evolutionary_Psychology/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00117/full
The whole class of psychiatric Drugs is garbage. They Kill people.
http://jannel.se/suicide.psychiatricdrugs.pdf
Here’s Paxil in Less than 3 years, US only
http://lamplightersoftware.com/dsm.php
Paroxetine Reported By
Adverse Reaction Cases MD CN OT PH LW NR
Suicidal Ideations 1,837 1,281 1,176 189 50 401 160
Attempted Suicides 786 592 522 121 89 151 48
Completed Suicides 921 616 474 78 34 631 51
Deaths Not From Suicide 238 141 131 21 19 4 33
Homicidal Ideations 136 53 144 28 11 22 4
Homicides 78 23 66 3 0 17 11
Hypomania/Mania 297 189 210 29 15 9 17
Heart Disease 1,149 432 1,436 1,236 595 381 48
Movement Disorders 2,273 1,207 1,416 237 129 468 163
Birth Defects 2,154 446 2,895 1,378 631 407 57
Premature Births 121 74 103 158 71 14 11
Prenatal/Neonatal Deaths 153 65 105 17 17 14 9
Those are only the AERS that Got reported.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16689555
“ The median under-reporting rate across the 37 studies was 94% (interquartile range 82-98%).”
921 Completed Suicides in not an acceptable trade for I don’t care How many people experienced a short term, Placebo like boost from it. The Serotonin Boost only lasts for 2 months tops, and then tens of thousands of people suffer the emotional and perceptual distortions of the damned from it.
I know 1 guy who tried to quit, and it took him 22 Months of misery and electric like Brain Shocks to get rid of it.
And those are the lightweights. Try the Antipsychotics. Lobotomy in a pill.
http://psychrights.org/states/alaska/CaseXX/3AN-08-493PS/JacksonOnNLtoxicity.pdf
So, like I said, it’s not personal, but these drugs are good for absolutely nothing. They’re filth.
And you say this despite my personal first-hand experience that I was helped by Paxil? I knew what it did to me. It reduced my level of emotional excitement. It may me not care enough to kill myself that day.
It wasn’t the only thing I was doing for treatment (excercise, discussion therapy, prayer) but it was the only drug I was taking at the time that could have effected my emotions and perceptions.
And it wasn’t difficult to quit. When my doctor started putting me on high blood pressure medicine, I stopped Paxil without doctor approval because I was worried about drug interaction. I took Paxil every other day for a week or so and then just quit cold turkey. No side effects that I could notice.
So you’re welcome to believe all the propaganda you have at the ready to defame this medicine. All I have is my personal experience that a) I was helped by it, b) I stopped it on my own and c) it probably helps at least some other people with a particular type of brain chemistry depression issue or it never would have been approved by the FDA.
I willing to accept that it doesn’t help everybody, especially because people were misdiagnosed. Depression is a tricky thing to treat and it is still not well-understood.
I’m sorry for the people who weren’t helped by it but I don’t accept that medicine is flawless. Science tries to help but it can’t help everyone every time. That’s life.