It can but not in the way anyone is thinking. What I'm about to post is not Tin Foil Kookery it is medical fact. Given the wrong medications for PTSD and Anxiety can trigger a very serious adverse medication called Serotonin Syndrome. So? Some may say? So it can have the same effect on the brain as taking LSD. The patient can have hallucinations.
Here is the problem. Doctors due to media and FDA pressures rather than writing a faster acting benzodiazepine class medication {which BTW can not trigger Serotonin Syndrome but is the antidote} will instead without a second thought write scripts for antidepressants which can trigger this. Antidepressants carry this risk especially in cases of complications of other known or unknown neurological impairments. Most doctors including mental health experts grossly ignore the risk.
I am not defending what this guy did in the least. I am simply exposing a very real issue which I do know a considerable amount about.
PTSD should be an enlistment obligation ender. You do not get over it in days, weeks, or even months. It takes about 3-5 years of therapy. We can not as a nation keep deploying troops multiple times into war zones especially on first enlistment and not expect these issues. Many troops today are seeing more war zone time Per Enlistment than most in WW2.
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Thank-you for this post I have been VERY concerned about the effect of
these medications for a VERY long time! I am not saying they affect ALL
people the same way, however the ONE common demoniator in ALL of these mass shootings are medications for ADHD, depression, ect. ALL
of them were on!!!!