Quoting from Robert Whitakers answer to one critic's review of "Anatomy of an Epidemic":
"The logic behind outpatient commitment laws is that antipsychotic medication is a necessary good for people with a diagnosis of severe mental illness. The medications are known to be helpful, but -- or so the argument goes -- people with 'severe mental illness' lack insight into their disease and this is why they reject the medication.
However, if the history of science presented in Anatomy of an Epidemic is correct, antipsychotic medications, over the long term, worsen long-term outcomes in the aggregate, and thus a person refusing to take antipsychotic medications may, in fact, have good medical reason for doing so. And if that is so, the logic for forced treatment collapses.
We need to go over Torrey’s review, step by step. This may be a bit exhausting, but since his critical review can ultimately be seen as a defense of his advocacy of forced treatment, I think it will be worthwhile. In the end, we will be able to judge whether his is an honest review, or dishonest in kind, and if it is the latter, that—by itself—will reveal much about the scientific merits of outpatient commitment laws."
What I suggest is that your reply is simply too facile and untutored to pass as a valid argument for continuing the use of SSRIs. Again, often the delusions of those affected, when historically treated, are less damaging to them and to society, than replacing them with the effects induced by SSRIs. SSRIs are not necessary for the treatment of psychoses, regardless of what big pharma recommends and which the layman has been led to believe.
Have you ever seen it through with a friend who is trying to get off SSRIs without adequately trained counsel? If not, then let me recommend you keep your opinions in restraint until you have. Benzodiazepines are far more addictive than cocaine or heroine, and harder to get off.
I’m sorry, but what I said and what you’re talking about are two COMPLETELY different things.
SSRIs are NOT anti-psychotic medications. No qualified psychiatrist gives them to a patient with psychotic behavior and expects it to deal with their symptoms.
SSRIs are paroxetine,Escitalopram, and citalopram for example. That’s for DEPRESSION and ANXIETY.
Anti-psychotics are a COMPLETELY different class of drug that has NOTHING in common with SSRIs, except they are both pills.
If you don’t believe me, try comparing any SSRI to Clozapine.
You fail to differentiate between cases of neurotic behavior (anxiety and depressive disorders) and psychotic (schizophrenics or bi-polar disorder for example), which is doing little to support your dismissal of leaving treatment to trained professionals such as my sister, who has had plenty of experience with SSRIs and knows better than to give them out like Halloween candy.