Posted on 09/10/2001 1:18:37 PM PDT by Slyfox
Edited on 05/07/2004 6:06:42 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
I said there was plenty of medical evidence linking these drugs to violence/suicide. And there is.
That's different than proof to a scientific certainty. I can't do it and you know it, just as you can't prove the converse. But I'll go ahead and post some citations, for all the good it will do.
If you think there is such a strong link, do you think the police should confiscate my guns while I am on zoloft?
Not mine either....enough said.
I have seen two people become unbalanced on these drugs. For the vast majority of people these drugs work well and are tolerated well. However for a significant number they can precipitate a nightmare.
Malcolm Bowers Jr., a psychiatrist at Yale University in New Haven, reported that serotonin-induced psychosis accounted for 8 percent of all general hospital psychiatric admissions over a recent 14-month period.
These drugs can cause serious reactions. They are prescribed willy-nilly without proper supervision by unqualified doctors. General Practitioners and Internists should not be prescribing powerful psychoactive drugs like this. It should be left to Psychiatrists under strictly supervised situations.
These are extremely powerful drugs able to affect the way a person sees life. They play with brain chemicals that are basic to a balanced personality. They are not candy. I fail to see how any educated person could think they should be prescribed for PMS.
I am glad you had no problem with these drugs. I have seen the other side.
What do you do with a doctor who can not tell you exactly why it works or how it works. And when you complain about feeling like you have bugs in your scalp he doesn't recognize that toxic levels are in your system. And he ups your dose.
Medical supervision is a very loose term when it comes to this kind of medication.
Not at all true. When I initially start on zoloft, my shrink was always real careful to say:
"It's possible that you may actually 'feel good enough' to act on a suicide impulse that you were too depressed to act on before. That can actually be a sign that the antidepressant is working. It is a dangerous time. Call me if you have these feelings."
It could be that the antidepressant was actually starting to work. She could've been using other drugs, who knows?
No. I think you should be prescribed Zoloft by a doctor who is qualified and informed something Eli-Lilly and their ilk have prevented/
The link is strong enough to warrant investigating in my opinion. But teasing out these factors will not be easy.
Check the URL again.
That's different than proof to a scientific certainty
Ohhhhh, well in that case it's not medical evidence, it's Bu!!$hit...
Actually someone who is sensitive to SSRI's can be affected in days.
Like I said before: Liberals have guns as their bogeyman, conservatives have antidepressants as theirs...
A gun is an inanimate object. An antidepressant is a psychoactive chemical. There may be a slight difference to someone who can reason.
My doc told me exactly how and why it worked. What serotonin regulates and how SSRI's prevent it from being reabsorbed too quickly by bonding with the particular receptors.
No one knows why some brains re-uptake the sertotonin too quickly and how this can be triggered by environmental or hereditary factors.
If he could not tell me this and wouldn't listen to my complaints, I would've gotten a different doctor.
Sounds like a case of sour grapes on your part. You are the only one responsible for your health and sanity.
Or would you prefer cradle-to-the-grave Hillarycare?
Where do you think I found this nugget of info:
: The International Coalition for Drug Awareness has a link on their website to the So. Cal. lawyers suing Eli-Lilly:
Baum, Hedlund, Aristei, Guilford & Downey
George Murgatroyd, a founder of this firm is a Scientologist supporter and donor. The "ICDA" looks like a Scientologist front organization.
It's Scientologist propaganda.
I too have seen the other side. I have a good friend whose entire family was devasted by the suicide her husband. My friend entered a lawsuit involving other Prozac casualties and won a sizable settlement from the drugmaker. Yes, they had to admit that Prozac indeed caused her husband's death.
I have also been clinically depressed. However, I took the harder route and painfully and prayerfully took each day as it came until the the cloud lifted. I have no idea what would have happened had I been medicated.
Ohhhhh, you're one of those anti-corporate Battle-in-Genoa types?
So the pills aren't bad, but the eeeeevil corporations are?
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