Posted on 12/19/2012 5:07:41 AM PST by detective
From the moment news emerged Friday that a young man had carried out a horrific massacre of elementary-school children, politicians from local city halls to the White House have been restoking the age-old push for more gun control. While guns have been a common denominator in mass slayings at schools by teens, there’s another familiar element that seems increasingly to be minimized.
Some 90 percent of school shootings over more than a decade have been linked to a widely prescribed type of antidepressant called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRIs, according to British psychiatrist Dr. David Healy, a founder of RxISK.org, an independent website for researching and reporting on prescription drugs.
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The MSM and politicians blame honest law abiding Americans for this and other recent tragedies. They ignore what is actually happening.
Not only that, but it is horrible policy to allow mentally unstable people out in public where they can be a threat to society if they don’t take their meds.
People thought out-patient therapy and pharmacology would be enough to deal with mental illness, and they were wrong.
However, lets continue to ignore that and ban guns, since Obamacare already got passed and we don’t need the mentally ill as a talking point anymore.
nonsense, it’s dem white devils what be making all de trouble. It da white man. de white man I tell tou.
OK, lets be honest, we all knew it was a white guy when it happens. It nearly always is.
We need to re-create the 100K+ mental health beds we had in the 1950s, and then put the deeply disturbed and most of the homeless there.
We can fund it by deflating the nanny state probing the overall populace and cutting school administration by 2/3.
psychiatry and psychology is a bunch of mumbo jumbo. These psychologists and psychiatrists are a danger to society.
Yes, all they really need is a few thousand dollars of auditing to get "clear" and get rid of their body thetans and they'll be fine. L Ron told me so. < /Heavy dripping sarcasm >
The sad reality is that, no amount of gun control laws is going to prevent future shootings and the reality is that these meds just do not work, they make things worse.
Plus also we are dealing not only with medical issues, but issues of “spritual warfare”.
Rodrick Shonte Dantzler. Bet you never heard of him.
I read yesterday the police had found no evidence of medication in the Lanza home and were getting a warrant for medical records. Not sure that we can confirm yet that this one was on SSRI’s..
That said, I also read that the first mass murder shooting in a school occurred in 1990. The first SSRI, Prozac, went on the market in 1988.
Bttt
I take it you are one. Look even your medical brothers call you witch doctors. It is a spiritual issue. Not one that could be cured with scientology.
And, while not to disparage your shot at Scientology, most people also know that the signal that those undergoing therapy are “cured” is that they are out of money.
I’m fortunate to not have much experience with psyc-related fields. About my only personal observation is that all the psyc majors in college were bat-guano crazy.
So I’m curious exactly how much training these professionals have in chemistry/pharmacology (both initially and during the course of their careers to update their training) before they’re allowed to hand out prescriptions for dangerous meds seemingly like they hand out Halloween candy.
I can’t seem to get a script for a simple common allery medication that has minimal side effects without an impramtur from a MD/DO.
impramtur = impramatur
I’ll concede that a LOT of present day psychology is garbage and the result of politicization of a “soft science” field, but there’s nothing about issues like schizophrenia that is “mumbo jumbo”.
I have NO scientific evidence, but I have LONG thought that drugging up our kids is a recipe for disaster, stop-gap for lazy parenting, etc.
I think kids need to work through their social and personal issues in order to learn how to cope and function in society.
The problem with SSRIs is that they can “work” for depression by making you so that you just don’t care about anything, including people. The result is that your life still may suck, but you don’t really give a flip anymore. One can become inured to the feelings or well-being of others. And, what they don’t do, IMO, is restore a sense of joy, fulfillment, or connection to loved ones.
It is easy for me to see how they can certainly increase the possibility of violence in a young, labile, disaffected man. More attention needs to be paid to this possible connection, and people on SSRIs need to be closely scrutinized for signs of sociopathic behavior.
news flash- 90% of school shootings linked to mentally ill people who were being treated for their illness
Let’s just take all the mentally ill off meds and see what happens? In the case of teens, a few good spankings ought
to cure their naughty fantasies
BTW now reported that Adama Lanza was NOT on medication
Adam Lanza would not have qualified for a “bed for the deeply disturbed and homeless”
he had a home, a fulltime caretaker (his mother) and had no criminal record nor public record of being a threat to anyone except himself
and it is reported he was not on meds at the time of his rampage
Maybe meds would have stopped this one, not “caused” it
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