Antidepressants in the main work fine, as you suspect the problems arise when you stop taking them abruptly. Quitting an antidepressant "cold turkey" is a very dangerous thing to do and almost certainly is going to do one of two things: One, it may scare you enough to go back on your meds where things soon stabilize. Or two it may push you over the edge, into a psychotic break. In order to successfully come off antidepressants, it is necessary to slowly lower the dosage over a long (months) period of time. It is also a good idea to be monitored by a doctor while this is going on. The "detox" for antidepressants is far longer than for any "recreational" drug that I know of and once it is clear of your system you are still the "wounded bird" you started out as. Psychotherapy in a bottle doesn't cure the underling causes of your problems, it merely masks them. I suspect these effects are stronger when children are so medicated, with adults it's bad enough.
If Biden is sincerely looking for an answer to random school shootings, he should take a very close look at the prevalent use of psycochemicals to control the behavior of school children.
Regards,
GtG
It’s not just anti-depressants. After a grand mal seizure, my 10 year old daughter was put on Keppra, an ant-seizure medication. Her neurologist told us that it had minor side-effects.
Wrong! She started having terrible rages! They were very, very scary! I finally went online and found out that they are one of the common side-effects of Keppra.
The rages stopped when she got off of it, and put on Lamictal. (She is 16 now, and a very sweet, kind girl.)
Some people do wonderful on Keppra, so I’m not against it. However patients and caregivers should be given warnings and training for how to deal with the situation. Also, the should maybe have more check ups.
I shudder to think what would have happened if my daughter was older when she started this medication. Also, what happens when an adult starts this type of medication. I don’t think they should be living by themselves. I also don’t think they should have access to guns. Knives are kind of scary also.
Pretty much what I would expect a practitioner to say, especially one who is a quack.
Most depression is not cured by talk-therapy, all propaganda by quacks to the contrary not withstanding. The onset of most affective disorder is spontaneous and it typically lifts spontaneously as well, usually after a few months, sometimes after years. "Talking" to people about brain chemistry problems doesn't cure them. The best non-drug treatment isn't counseling, it's exercise. But of course, there's no money for talk therapists in doing that.