Anti-depressants are some of the most widely prescribed drugs in America. Millions of doctors and their patients appear to like these drugs, but there is a darker side.
Most violent outbreaks in recent years have involved guns and new information indicates there’s often another common thread antidepressants from columbine to aurora the naval yard to fort hood antidepressants have been linked to violence for decades psychiatrist peter breggin has studied this link that these drugs are causing agitation anxiety insomnia hostility
Aggression mania antidepressants work on the brain thereby altering the way people think in addition to driving the person with the sem fetta mean like effect the antidepressants kind of do a bit of a lobotomy you lose your empathy you lose your caring in his book medication madness dr. breggin cites real-life examples of violence that could be blamed on
Antidepressants of an engineer who was given paxil probably to help stop smoking maybe for some tension certainly not for any mental disorder and within a couple of doses he drowned his two children and himself in a tub but not all doctors view antidepressants so harshly the cleveland clinic’s dr. karen jacobs says without antidepressants many of her patients
Couldn’t even function properly they may not be able to work they may not be able to interact with their peers they may not be able to interact with their family they’re really isolated and not very productive and you can turn a patient’s life around by being able to find the right medications but she also recognizes the risks educating your patients how to use
An antidepressant what to expect not only the side effects but some of the dangers including making sure that you educate a either a caregiver or another family member is really essential to prevent some of the side effects or detrimental kinds of things that you might have read about in the press previously the american psychiatric association urges doctors to
Exercise caution when prescribing a certain type of drug which includes antidepressants saying their uses could be harmful especially if patients aren’t properly monitored or are taking other drugs but dr. bregman says when it comes to emotional problems counselling is the better treatment saying antidepressants can make the situation worse especially in young
People the child who is already angry and upset withdrawn starts to feel agitated anxious how still he starts to increase aggressivity starts to increase the kid has no idea it’s a drug effect even if you told him it was a drug effect he might not believe you he’d say no i’m just angry my schoolmates i’m just angry and my mother and father because it feels like
The food and drug administration receives some of its highest number of violence reports from people taking antidepressants it happens often with a dose change up or down or starting or stopping a change because that’s what jars the brain the most is the change so while antidepressants are some of the most popular drugs among doctors and their patients they can
Sometimes lead to unexpected and even dangerous results lori johnson cbn news
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Medication Madness: The Dark Side of Anti-Depressants By CBN News
