I think that the kids killing people and committing suicide is an after effect of the pharmacopia that they are exposed to, both prescribed and illegally procured.
Most of the mind altering drugs that kids take have the affect of suppressing the production of seratonin, causing long term depressin, which is again treated with another mind altering drug, which doesn’t work after a period of time. When the anti-depressants stop working, the side effecrts kick in and the kid is likely to try anything. Thank goodness most of them don’t start killing people.
Thanks for your comments Eva. Yes, we are lucky more kids don’t go this route.
I have a nephew that was on ritalin from the time he was just a little kid. The doctors told my sister that he was “stressed” when he was in about ninth grade and insisted on putting him on Zoloft. the Zoloft worked really well for about five years, maybe seven, but about his senior year in college it stopped working. He realized that he wasn’t noticing any benefit and just stopped taking it, cold turkey. He experienced all kinds of side effects, many of which doctors thought were all in his head. He wanted to be a teacher and he felt that he needed to to stop taking the drugs. Then he found a doctor who had a similar experience after being on ritalin for years and anti-depressants.
My nephew was smart enough to know what his problem was, many kids don’t. If there problems are caused by recreational drugs, or complicated by recreational drugs, there isn’t much hope.
The drugs certainly don’t help and, imho,
push plenty of vulnerable, rejected, hurting, angry kids over the line.
Interestingly, as I understand it . . . in the original Hebrew . . . the meaning of satan’s earliest names included the meaning of
—music—as in even parts of his body were musical instrument sorts of somethings and
—drugs, pharmacopia, particularly mind-altering stuff