You know this means quite a few women disarmed as they are the largest percentage demographic on antidepressants. I mean they are as a group, taking them like skittles.
I like Ann, her religious affiliation and her over-the-top intelligence, but if there’s anyone who needs to be on AD and mood pharmatherapy it is Ann...
Antidepressants dont cause this, the underlying mental illness does. More than likely if some of these shooters were on antidepressants, they should have been on something much stronger.
A full ban on antidepressants? Perhaps more closely regulating ... perhaps more selective dispensing. But a full ban?
I’ve seen someone miss a couple doses of antidepressants, more than once.
OMG living hell for a week.
Well known that coming off that stuff is horrible.
And most mass murders involve either that or “aloha snackbar”.
yeah. ask the President the GOP and the NRA.
thank God for the three JROTC soldiers who helped defend
the innocent.
You would have to take the anti-depressants out of my cold dead hands.
Arkham!
We’ve missed you, Ann...where’ve you been?
One of the most important and hardest lessons I have learned in this world is how to create happiness within myself without using drugs, which do not create happiness at all. They only create an illusion and addiction.
I create happiness in myself by spending time with German Shepherds. Happiness springs from love.
Find what you love in this world, and do that and be with that.
Drugs will not help you.
Plus, compulsory chemical castration of all Socialists/Democrats/Liberals/Progressives/Communists!!!
Plus, compulsory chemical castration of all Socialists/Democrats/Liberals/Progressives/Communists!!!
How many combat vets are on anti-depressants?
I fully agree with this headline and what I read on this so far. Dangerous crazy needs to be locked up. And yes, all those cute little pills they ply people with changes their thinking. That is the whole idea of those pills - to change their thinking. And even their ‘disclaimers’/side effects says it could cause suicidal and homicidal tendencies. And I don’t know, maybe giving kids a methamphetamine type substance all their lives might not be such a good idea either.
Learning how to cope with diversity and challenges is part of growing up and living life in general. IF someone has a special need or short time requirement for a sedative that surely should be able to be given. But put on mind altering drugs forever can’t be healthy. But it is a good way to ensure return ‘customers’.
Dangerous crazy needs to be addressed and isolated from the general population,
This ‘punishing the whole because of a few’ isn’t just bad policy and unjust. It is opportunist agenda being carried out, which I am sure most on FR know.
The 2nd Amendment doesn’t have a disclaimer or shackles on it. It says SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. It says what is says. It means what it says. It is a BINDING LEGAL DOCUMENT, Like the Honorable A. Scalia said.
If someone it too dangerous to be a free person living under our GOD GIVEN RIGHTS ‘RECOGNIZED’ by the U.S. Constitution, then they should be somewhere where they will not be a threat to anyone.
If someone can’t be trusted to not hurt any innocents, they should not be walking free and alone amongst us.
We can debate mental health treatments, drugs and gun restrictions at a later date, but we need school safety NOW.... let’s get willing staff members armed and employ armed guards where appropriate and take down the idiotic signs that say “gun free zone”.
I’ll second.
Imagine the chaos with 90% of the population withdrawing from their various mind bogglers.
We’d need to carry, or board up the windows.
I love Ann and would go to war for her....
... But she has no ability to say that anyone looks insane. She’s got the craziest looks of anyone.
Only someone ignorant of the use of psychoactive drugs and treatments would post such an ignorant thread.
Most mentally ill are canaries in the culture. Their emotional boundaries are more permeable than the average person and they take in more and more of the culture and react to it as they are told to do by the media.
I call them the Cultural Canaries.
The leftist media has been advocating violence for a long time through video and presentation.
As for medications being the cause of the violence, well, of course most of the people who commit mass murder have been or are on or just came off of psychiatric drugs.
For most of them have been unstable for a long period of time and have been treated, for their mental instability. Mental illness and the kind of instability that causes mass murders of this nature just doesn’t pop up. These are people who have been mentally deteriorating for a long time. And they have been treated with the appropriate medications to manage their symptoms.
Whether they complied with follow up treatment, or took their medications, or not, is about judgment, which is something most mentally ill people do not have. As a matter of fact, lack of judgment is a symptom in most mental illnesses.
So to start talking about how these people were on different antidepressants, benzos, mood stabilizers, and antipsychotics and point fingers at the medications, is ridiculous.
It is the mental illness, not the medication or the gun that is at issue.
You would be better served to criticize a broken mental health system which is so hampered by HIPPA and Patient Rights that it is unable to prevent all but the most IMMEDIATE dangerous patients (and they have to prove it to the courts) from leaving the building.
You are all right, we did not have this sort of thing years ago and a good portion of what is going on is thus: people do what they are told, think what they are told, and the mentally ill have less filters from the common culture than others. They reflect the culture.
Therefore the violence our culture censored years ago, that many people either avoid or can filter, goes straight to the minds of the mentally ill and influences them greatly.
Censorship in the past was not there to keep you in the dark but instead was in place to protect the weak, including the weak-minded....and thus...the society as a whole.
We have eliminated hospital beds from our healthcare system in general and have closed down long term facilities for the mentally ill and developmentally retarded. We have shut down facilities that used to school and board troubled and mentally ill children and adolescents, and have opened programs that handle much less, and that require a much higher bar to enter, than before.
We have given adolescents patient rights, and have moved parents and guardians to the sidelines in decision-making for their care. I have seen frustrated and end of rope patents kill their mentally ill children and then suicide because the options of homes and locked facilities are not longer present.
No this is not an issue of pharma or guns, this is an issue of what we have become as a culture.
We had individuals in the old system who were abused in the large institutions. I submit that between homelessness, lack of treatment, people who predate on the mentally ill and retarded, and the damages and injuries caused by the mentally ill and mentally retarded, there is far more abuse and crime today that there ever was in post-war institutions in the US.
The large institutions of old, were places developed in compassion. In older times, families locked their mentally ill in attics, or starved and killed them. Towns fathers would quietly capture and kill dangerous mentally ill. We chose to give them a home and three hots and a cot. That is gone. We refuse to take care of these people and we are letting them die, and we are letting them kill. I suspect the larger issue is to control the culture, and remove guns.
Don’t blame pharma, blame your local leftist lawyer and politician for eliminating effective mental health care.
People do understand that the huge upsurge in anti-depressant and psychoactive drugs prescribed came about from the “mainstreaming” of people who should probably be in some kind of institutional setting. Recall when during Reagan, the mental hospitals were “civilized” to public release and halfway houses etc, at the insistence of the truly insane libs— for reasons of being more “humane”. The walking loonies are far more in evidence these days— because 1.) they cannot be depended upon to actually TAKE their meds unsupervised.
Don’t we already have asylums for mad people?