Posted on 05/17/2008 3:16:10 PM PDT by neverdem
Thanks. I’ve read it now, and the cause is, as I indicated it would be, listed as homicide.
Thanks for the ping. Interesting.
the kid was manic depressive, not schizophrenic.
Often when I saw patients with problems from SSRI anti depressants, I referred them...many turned out to be bipolar (manic depressive)...anti depressants can “flip” them into mania.
Often bipolar patients do better on the third generation anti depressants like this kid was taking...and often they add an antipsychotic to stop them from getting mania.
They are not easy patients to treat, and alas we can’t put them into the hospital until they stablize like in the old days, which might take a week or month.
Another problem is that when patients get hypomanic, they often enjoy the feeling and stop the medicines to calm them down, or the medicines (e.g. lithium, anti convulsants) that controls their mood swings. Then they get full mania...
As for “fatal levels of SSRI”, I didn’t know there was such a thing...and many medicines can interact with SSRI’s, including street drugs.
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