Posted on 07/06/2022 3:34:59 PM PDT by Hojczyk
TUCKER CARLSON: They're numbed by the endless psychotropic drugs that are handed out in every school in the country by crackpots posing as counselors and of course, they're angry. They know that their lives will not be better than their parents. They'll be worse. That's all but guaranteed. They know that. They're not that stupid and yet, the authorities in their lives, mostly women, never stops lecturing them about their so-called privilege. You're male. You're privileged. Imagine that. Try to imagine an unhealthier, unhappier life than that.
So, a lot of young men in America are going nuts. Are you surprised? And by the way, a shockingly large number of them have been prescribed psychotropic drugs by their doctors, SSRI or antidepressants and that would include quite a few mass shooters and keep in mind, again, these drugs are meant to prevent crazy behavior and yet there seems to be a connection.
Eric Harris, the columbine killer was on Zoloft and Luvox. A year earlier, a 15-year-old called Kip Kinkel shot his parents and dozens of classmates. He was on Prozac. In 2005, a 16-year-old called Jeff Weise killed his grandfather and ten kids in Minnesota. He was on Prozac, too. So was 27-year-old Steven Kazmierczak who murdered six people at Northern Illinois University. In 2012, you may recall when 25-year-old James Holmes walked into a movie theater and shot 82 people. He was on Zoloft.
The list goes on and on and on and on. It includes the shooter at the Washington Navy Yard in 2013. That would be 34-year-old Aaron Alexis. It also includes Dylan Roof. He's the 21-year-old who shot up the church in Charleston. Now, he was apparently a racist, and we've heard a lot about that. Fine, but we've heard next to nothing about the
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Yep.
Fill them up with pharmaceuticals, then tell the earth ends in 8 years and they will all die because of the weather.
These leftist know exactly what they’re doing.
“Eric Harris, the columbine killer was on Zoloft and ... “
Interesting. Thought provoking. Would like to hear from some psychologists on this.
Epigenetic plus these drugs at earlier and earlier ages are bound to cause problems along with the institutionalization of kids. We know the hormones in a mothers womb can have effects on of genes.. any real hormone imbalance can do this.
Genes change in response to their environment. Their environment can be many things including these chemicals, the chemicals produces by institutionalizing (deindividuation).
I have also had a woman tell me her youngest son never took a childhood vaccine and had none of the problems her oldest two sons do.
Back to nature vs. unthreatening, turns out it’s both.
I can say I have seen very high levels of thc in neonate for bloods over the last 5 years. We only test a small fraction of these babies that are born.
The babies bathed in pot for 9 months should be in elementary school… maybe middle school in Colorado.
What pray tell Sandwiceguy is the easy solution?
Personally, I think the social acceptance of recreational drug use has contributed more than the use of prescribed psychoactive drug use.
Aside: Note I am not blindly defending prescribed psychoactive drug use. I think in some cases it helps. However, handing them out willy-nilly to K12 males because it’s easier to just apply a blanket diagnosis of ADHD to them then try and control a classroom is what I object to!
Back to the point I was going to make about recreational drug. I think in the spectrum of psychological societal behavior in child-teen-adult populations there’s a threshold where on the right-hand side going right ranges from barely coping with life to fully engaged and life answers to you. On the left-hand side moving left there’s almost coping to psychotic. I think recreational drug use shifts population numbers to the left by moving that threshold\crossover point to the right. In other words, it increases the population of those with “behavioral problems”. Throw in prescribed psychotropic drugs for behavior and the problem is inadvertently made worse. I have no data to back up my argument, the working hypothesis just comes anecdotal stories and personal observation.
I was on anti psychotic drugs for 14 years to control seizures derived from head damage. They just made me progressively stupider and screwed up my senses and perceptions. I lost the ability to read and my color vision. I lost very short term memory. When I turned my head I could not remember what I saw just a second prior. I lost will power. I went out on a commercial fishing boat for two weeks and came back 6 weeks later and had been out of meds for 4 weeks. I did not have a seizure. I knew I had to get off the meds but will power was very weak. I started taking half doses and wife cut it down gradually ill I was off. My consciousness and mentality returned almost as slowly as it had gone away and it was years before I was back to normal. My first inclination when I got off that boat was to quit cold turkey- but will power. Since, I have read that doing that would probably have killed me.
Putting kids on drugs for depression is just plain wrong. Almost all of them could instead concentrate on getting sunshine on their skin or taking Vitamin D supplements. Vitamin D doesn’t cut off their emotions and is recognized by at least some researchers and doctors as the only effective treatment for clinical depression. That is anything from winter blues to what we used to call manic depression. I have seen the change D makes in several people including my daughter.
I agree. Mentally ill kids who end up committing these horrible crimes are almost always going to have a history of mental illness and incidents. Histories of mental illness will almost always result in attempted treatment. Attempted treatment is extremely likely to involve psychiatric mediations. These do have positive effects on many cases, and are more effective than alternatives; unfortunately, no sure thing, permanent remedies exist. But mental illness is a dynamic phenomenon. Meds can be discontinued; the physiology of the patient can change, rendering the prescription ineffective or harmful over time.
The relative success of psychiatric meds creates a societal problem by providing an excuse to cheap out on keeping a close watch on the patients. They’ve had “treatment”, and appear to be ok, so it stops being a public concern. Society pays attention AFTER something extreme has happened. Because all it takes for a disaster is a tiny fraction of cases to become hyper-violent, our “system” for dealing with this is guaranteed to fail. Family members, if any are even involved, have many motives not to be effective guardians of a young adult’s mental health issues. They don’t want to make life worse for their kids, and can be expected to get used to, or rationalize away (”it’s just his art...”), problem behavior an outsider would see as major warning signs. At worst, they can want to pretend the problem away for careerist reasons, like wanting to be mayor, or simple denial that their kid has a problem at all. Then there is the problem of kids aging out of their parents’ control.
Agree but I don’t think these cases are clinical depression more like severe Bipolar and schizophrenia, they get to self medicating with weed and alcohol, meth what have you and go off the deep end even more.
A friend took two years to come off a psych med. He would shave a bit off and use that for a week or two and then shave a bit more off. And so forth. You have immense will power. My hats off to you.
The side effects are designed to make you think it is you who is crazy and not the drug itself causing the condition.
The ADD drugs boys get so prolifically in school are compensation for inactivity. When I was a kid there was very little or none of that problem but we all got intense playground time during the day.
During the late 1950s and 1960s mass shootings by young males was rare of not unheard of. Guns and ammunition could readily be bought with few questions asked. During my high school years guns were in many cars in the school parking lot and this would have been true in many parts of the country. Psychotropic drugs were unknown.
Tucker has a good point. Young people are being over medicated. Starting in the 1990s every kid with fidgets was quickly and often perfunctorly diagnosed with ADHD and put on Ritalin. Now other drugs are being passed out like popcorn.
There needs to be serious research into the possible connection between the use of these drugs in young people and the rash of mass shootings and suicides
Why do you think the rates of suicide have risen so much? The have been going up since the 1960s, as far as I know.
I have had some personal experience with Cymbalta which is a SNRi I believe which is close to the SSRI family (Zolof for ex) that Tucker mentions as a possible cause for young men becoming violent. There are Internet groups where people seek help to get off Cymbalta because of ruined lives. Many different reactions to this drug but mostly the medical community will ignore any adverse reactions. Doctors are told it can not be the drug.
My example would be people taking Cymbalta for pain become depressed and suicidal and then find life is a living hell when they get severe withdrawal.
Millions of people got on anti-suicide drugs and we wound up with many more suicides. So, maybe it’s not working.
My older brother was a psychopath who hated our mother. He had rages and sexual obsessions. Had he not dropped dead of a heart attack, I was convinced he would have gotten hold of a gun and shot up a place, especially a place with a lot of women. Might he have benefited by medication? I really doubt it.
"Pills don't equal skills." Medication might help regulate moods or help with focus, but they don't instill conscience, rationality, or common sense. Or alleviate trauma from poor parenting.
Eric Harris, the columbine killer was on Zoloft and Luvox. A year earlier, a 15-year-old called Kip Kinkel shot his parents and dozens of classmates. He was on Prozac. In 2005, a 16-year-old called Jeff Weise killed his grandfather and ten kids in Minnesota. He was on Prozac, too. So was 27-year-old Steven Kazmierczak who murdered six people at Northern Illinois University. In 2012, you may recall when 25-year-old James Holmes walked into a movie theater and shot 82 people. He was on Zoloft.
The list goes on and on and on and on. It includes the shooter at the Washington Navy Yard in 2013. That would be 34-year-old Aaron Alexis. It also includes Dylan Roof. He’s the 21-year-old who shot up the church in Charleston. Now, he was apparently a racist, and we’ve heard a lot about that. Fine, but we’ve heard next to nothing about the fact that he was taking SSRIs, he and many, many others. You’re not supposed to notice, but some have.
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