Posted on 04/23/2023 9:43:58 AM PDT by Beave Meister
Despite findings of increased suicide risks and homicidal ideation linked to antidepressants, the widely used drugs have been spared from the discussions around mass shootings. Is it time we reevaluate the national conversation along with the real history surrounding this class of drugs?
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It seems like almost everybody is on those drugs nowadays.
If mass use of SSRI antidepressants and the lawlessness of certain demographic sectors can be used to do away with the Second Amendment, so be it. That’s the position of our betters, the elites.
Slowly....
Ever so slowly...
The link between psychotropic drugs and mass shootings is coming out...
“Oh no, a boy is acting like...a boy!”
“Better shoot him up with some anti-depressants”.
Lenin, the evil patron saint of malignant narcissism.
Some points to ponder. I don’t claim to have any answers.
1) People who shoot up schools and perpetrate similar mayhem are insane by definition. Sane people either have no desire to do those things or can control themselves.
2) People who seek out and are prescribed anti-depressants belong to the set of people with mental problems pronounced enough that they have sought help or have been forced into treatment. Nowadays, this is a large swath of the population.
3) If anti-depressants and psych meds were not available, these same people would still have mental issues, and be apt to do crazy things.
4) In view of the above, statistics will show that a large portion of people who commit “extreme” crimes have used anti-depressants and/or psych meds. D’oh.
5) Without meds, incarcerating the mentally ill is darned expensive, and tends towards being an ugly situation for the warehoused inmates, with little hope of recovery.
6) This makes it very attractive to “treat” people on an outpatient basis with the new meds instead of incarcerating them.
7) Problems arise when the mentally ill recover enoughto be released, then they stop taking the meds (that often are said to make the patients feel weird and can have unpleasant side effects). Coming up and down off the meds seems to be the most dangerous period. But if the patients are not committed or even supervised, nothing forces them to stay on track.
8) So a big question is always, if anti’d’s and psych meds were banned, would all the dangerous nuts spontaneously heal or do no harm? Obviously not, so what is to be done with/about them?
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