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!!!!
Unless people have seen it they generally don't believe it. Most medical professionals including ones writing prescriptions for antidepressants do not know about Serotonin Syndrome. I had a doctor I was showing a print out too call it rubbish. His patient with it was my wife taking Zoloft and Trazodone.
20 years ago at onset of General Anxiety and PTSD I was being given antidepressants. I'd get headaches, upset stomach, agitated. One evening I found myself pointing my finger at my head like a gun. The doctors insisted I take antidepressants. I finally put my foot down and said Xanax only. Then I found a doctor who knew how to prescribe it correctly so the Xanax worked all the time. Most doctors have a calf when they find out I've taken Xanax for 20 years. I tell them so what my wife has for 28 years LOL.
About 8 years later my wife developed Serotonin Syndrome. She thought she was Tess on Touched By an Angel.. She also thought she was seeing the devil. It could have easily been me a few years earlier. The doctors were not catching on. I diagnosed her with it myself.
Yes as a kid {I'm 56 BTW} I was said to have ADD ADHD but I did not take meds for it. I didn't have it rather I had sensory processing damaged now called C.A.P.D. in other words Neurological Damage that made me more susepictable to having Serotonin Syndrome if given antidepressants.
Both my wife and my own medical records now have an alert saying no antidepressants or Serotonin level raising medications.