Has there been any indications that this young man was on SSRI’s or any other medications? Let’s face the facts — the reason why so many of these people are on depression meds in the first place is because they are troubled. If it was the fault of the SSRI’s in these cases we would see many, many other instances of this happening. I don’t know if those mentioning this are just waiting to blame it on the meds, but that’s what happened in the Witchita Mall Shooting. It remains that these medications DO help most people. It is only when they are not receiving counseling, are on the wrong medication for their specific chemistry, have stopped taking their meds etc... that they usually wind up going off the deep end. Again, there are MILLIONS of people in this country on anti-depressant medication. If it were truly the fault of the meds themselves, these occurences would be WAY more common.
Hear, hear.
Like I said, I’ve taken SSRI’s before, and they both helped, although it took forever to come off the Paxil, and I didn’t like some of the side effects. Lexapro is totally awesome, BTW.