[sinkspur]

Anti depressants should be banned or vastly reduced in usage as they are an huge mechanism by which the forces of societal atomization undermine particularly children but even as we see here adults.

Utter nonsense.

You'd be seeing ten times the number of suicides without anti-depressive medication.

Anybody who uses "societal atomization" ought to have the sense to leave mental health to the professionals.

[Hildy]

Please don't say that. Anti-depressants changed my mother's life. My only regret was that I waited until she was 74 to finally insist she take them. I saw a negative, unhappy woman finally achieve some peace and contentment. Is it a false personality? Who the hell cares. All I know is that I found the woman I knew my mother once was.

[GOP_1900AD]

I submit you and so called "mental health professionals" might be actually contributing to the problem. Chill out....

[FirstTomato]

Utter nonsense. You'd be seeing ten times the number of suicides without anti-depressive medication.

Often people who commit suicide ARE on drugs, prescribed, legal drugs. Somehow the media and the psych industry has the public convinced that all depressed people have to do is take a pill, and all will be well. Unfortunately, that's not true. Often there is no answer to the person's suffering and they simply choose not to go on. I knew a man who blew his head off because his daughter had died of a terminal disease and she was everything--literally--he had in the world. What would a drug do for him? Turn him into a zombie? Make him happy? Drugs are also bad because they are over-prescribed and used as a crutch. And drugs, even the newer ones, are never free of side-effects. There are no easy answers.