[Myrddin]

One of my co-workers committed suicide in 1993. Before he did that, he explained that the drugs don't make you suicidal. You're already that way. The missing ingredient is the initiative to act on the desire. Prozac took care of the initiative problem for him. Too bad. He was very gifted in the ability to create graphics manipulation algorithms. We chatted often. He committed suicide while I was on a 3 week business trip to Florida.

[twigs]

I’ve heard that about some of these drugs. And apparently, it’s especially true in young people. They strip away the lack of initiative to act before they act on the underlying problem many times. A psychiatric nurse friend of mine explained to me that it’s rarely the drug that causes these tragic suicides; it’s the underlying problem. Of course, that doesn’t mean that we neglect negative effects from the drugs.