[Semper Paratus]

Considering that people who take these drugs are sucicidal to begin with this is like saying people who take anti-cholesterol drugs are prone to heart attacks.

[Doctor Stochastic]

I was thinking about warnings on allergy nostrums that say you may become sleepy and have a sore throat or headache.

[cjshapi]

That's not necessarily true. I've never been suicidal but had been diagnosed with depression. Unfortunately it seems to be hereditary. It's difficult to put into specifics the difference the lexapro has made. More than the talk therapy did. Life isn't all gray and blah anymore. I can laugh and sing with the radio and be happy.

And for those of you who say faith and trying harder should be enough they are not always. Actually I prayed for years to find a way to lift the darkness. The meds have help do this. But I was never, ever close to being suicidal and I resent being summarily categorized that way.

[BossLady]

Many of these kids/people might have been mis-diagnosed and were not suicidal to begin with....using these drugs actually 'makes' them suicidal. Sad isn't it?

[ZinGirl]

One reasoning I heard about a potential risk for suicide for people on these meds was that some people are actually "too depressed" to even consider suicide.....but as the anti-depressant lifts them up a bit, they feel "well enough" to commit suicide.