[Capriole]

come on kids don't need prozac they need family and love - President Bush #1 said it begins with the family and I agree... it doesn't take a village or prozac just some good old fashioned love and care and patience with children... what a cold world it is with prozac!

Come on, folks, have some compassion. Sometimes children have to deal with more tragedy and loss than they can endure. Death, divorce, more death, more death, various types of losses--these things can send someone spiralling down into a clinical depression no matter how much love surrounds them. And if you had experienced first-hand the agony that is true clinical depression you wouldn't want to see any child suffer this way. And you wouldn't want to risk having the child commit suicide from the pain, either.

[Anarchist]

Clinical depression is brought about by a chemical imbalance in the brain due to malabsorbtion of serotonin. It is this imbalance that Selective Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitors (SSRI) are meant to correct. These pharmaceuticals are sold under the names of Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa and a few others.

Depression can be a real illness just as diabetes is. People cannot just "snap out of it." It is not a character deficit.

Depression sufferers include Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, neither of whom lacked character or courage.

[Mfkmmof4]

And if you had experienced first-hand the agony that is true clinical depression you wouldn't want to see any child suffer this way. And you wouldn't want to risk having the child commit suicide from the pain, either.


I have 2 children who suffer from depression and within days of taking Prozac I had smiling children. My 13 year old suffers from it because it runs in the family and my 8 year old is a cancer survivor. I am greatful this medication is on the market!!

[angcat]

I'm 38 and still cannot accept my father’s death of a year ago. I can't imagine a child losing a parent and dealing with it. My doctor told me it was abnormal to still be depressed about it after all these months but I don't agree. No drugs for me.