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Yup. Read this in the paper the other day, but there wasn't much there in the way of new information. There are plenty of stories out there that show this association, but it has taken the "authorities" until now to notice. But as others have said, it may not be the drugs at all, but the condition that indicated drugs to begin with.

DP had been taking them, if you didn't know (not sure which one). I'm still troubled over what happened with him. I wouldn't mind chilling with someone going through a tough time, sometimes that's probably all they need. But we grew apart due to lifestyle differences, so the opportunity wasn't there to be aware of what was going on.

But it's hard to pick out just who is going to do it, and you can't just put everybody on suicide watch, so some are bound to slip through the cracks. There are good reasons to look in on folks in that situation though, when one knows about them.

P.S.: Happy Birthday!

I am also still troubled over what happened to DP. I don't think he had been on medication very long. His alcoholism had to have intensified his depression. He slipped into a dark hole and could not get out. Maybe he was counting on the medication to give him better results than what it did. I don't know. That dark hole is sometimes a hard place to get out of. People expect you to just snap out of it. It's not as easy as that. It might be jumping the gun (so to speak) to say that antidepressants are causing suicide. By the time medication is prescribed, they have probably been in that dark hole for a long time. Anyone in that situation should be closely monitored. Although, our cousin had an appointment with his doctor the very day he killed himself. So what can the doctor do? They can't move in with every patient to watch them.