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To: neverdem
According to Dr. David Healy in "Talking Back to Prozac, the depressed don't commit mayhem.

Well, there goes Dr. Healy again...

People with other MH diagnoses get depressed.
People who are depressed are prone to suffer other mental anomalies, including paranoia, cognitive impairment, memory loss, anger/explosiveness, substance abuse, etc., etc.

34 posted on 02/18/2008 11:31:22 PM PST by Rudder
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To: Rudder
Well, there goes Dr. Healy again...

People with other MH diagnoses get depressed.
People who are depressed are prone to suffer other mental anomalies, including paranoia, cognitive impairment, memory loss, anger/explosiveness, substance abuse, etc., etc.

"But he also saw that his position would be strengthened if he could cite the results of a drug experiment on undepressed, certifiably normal volunteers. If some of them, too, showed grave disturbance after taking Pfizer's Zoloft—and they did in Healy's test, with long-term consequences that have left him remorseful as well as indignant—then depression was definitively ruled out as the culprit."

Why did you ignore that? Healy changed his mind about SSRIs.

38 posted on 02/18/2008 11:45:41 PM PST by neverdem (I have to hope for a brokered GOP Convention. It can't get any worse.)
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