Posted on 01/25/2020 11:03:52 AM PST by ammodotcom
One of our Resistance Library readers reached out to us recently and shared a BBC article that they found interesting. They said it reminded them of our piece Prescription For Violence: The Corresponding Rise of Antidepressants, SSRIs & Mass Shootings and thought it supported some of the connections made there.
They’ve been linked to road rage, pathological gambling, and complicated acts of fraud. Some make us less neurotic, and others may even shape our social relationships. It turns out many ordinary medications don’t just affect our bodies – they affect our brains. Why? And should there be warnings on packets?
We thought you all might find it interesting, you can find the BBC article they sent us here: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200108-the-medications-that-change-who-we-are
We reap what we sow.
Depressed people take SSRI's and some, perhaps even many, eventually get better.
Some people who take SSRIs and the like are seriously mentally ill people and among those seriously mentally ill people are a few REALLY serious nuts--very few--who do bad things.
With such prescriptions come enclosures/pamplets listing the many side effects. There are plenty of warnings.
ABSOLUTELY! Thank you! It is a reality we need to dive into DEEP and NOW.
Last time I checked the brain is part of the body.
L
I’ve been depressed since Nov 1972. In 1989 my doctor had me consult with a psychiatrist who prescribed my Prozac. I took it for about 2 weeks.
I came into my consulting gig one morning and was told to go back to my consulting company office. I went bac, People I had worked with on prior projects told me:
I cant believe you would do that.
Apparently I did something that was so anti-social that nobody can even speak of it or tell me what I did. In looking back I realized that I had no concept, no recollection of my personal behavior, even though I was performing top level as an IT consultant.
Needless to say, I didn’t take anymore Prozac.
bmk
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