Why is this not driving public discourse?
See also www.ssristories.com and www.paxilprogress.org.
I have a better question. Just who the f*** has “A twelve-year-old boy on fluoxetine” and WHY?
Never mind banning people who take these drugs from owning guns it is more like we should ban these drugs.
Even more a 12 year old has no business on these drugs in the first place.
I’d love to know which Congress critters get wined and dined by Big Pharma. We have an appointment next month with a psychologist for a potential ADHD diagnosis. Meds are off the table as a treatment option. We took our son to a holistic practitioner last week and he determined my son has a dairy and egg allergy. In addition to removing that from his diet, he suggested giving him a supplement called Neuromax and another called Probenzym. Both are made by Frontier Nutrition. Holy cow! What a difference! I have my son back! The only reason we’re going thru with the psych appointment is for the IQ test.
I posted a comment by saying that there is evidence of a connection.. just that there was evidence. One sentence.
So I get a reply suggesting that I "shut up . . . [what] you posted is ignorant balderdash."
Another subjected me to a virtual third degree demanding that I prove it -- prove what? I said that there was evidence and in fact there is evidence. I guess he was on some kind of schedule and I didn't answer quickly enough and the usual insults came.
Others on the thread did answer his questions and supplied the evidence.
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I strongly support psych meds for persons with bipolar mania with psychotic features and other psychotic disorders...based on personal experience in multiple cases in the family. Usually a mood stabilizer and anti-psychotic are needed. In some cases also anti-anxiety and anti-OCD. In my family they are close to normal when properly medicated and heading for hospitalization as a danger to themselves and others when not on meds.
I have personally taken them or had the police take three of them to the locked ward on multiple occasions.
The problem comes when under the law over age 17 they can refuse meds at any time...or a med that worked for a long time stops working as often happens.
As a prosecutor, I had the privilege of cross-examining Dr. Braggin...I mean Breggin, on a murder case where he testified as an expert witness. This was where a defendant bashed in the skull of a nice young lady and then stabbed her 55 times. According to defendant’s statement, the young lady was conscious, crying, and “breathing really hard” when he left her. Breggin is nothing but a paid whore for defense attorneys. His theories are extreme and not supported by mainstream science. Much to my satisfaction, the Court (and the Supreme Court of Indiana) did not chose to give weight to Dr. Breggin’s testimony and the defendant is still serving his 65 year sentence for murder. If Peter Breggin is involved in a criminal case, particularly a brutal murder, it is only to get a verdict of Not Responsible By Reason of Insanity.
By the way, there is no evidence that Lanza was taking SSRI’s or any other psychotropic medication.
I was on Celexa for years in order to cope with depression. Last summer, I got off it cold turkey. Until the events of last Friday, I was not depressed since I stopped taking the medication. Now what I feel is a dangerous mixture of grief and rage.....