If indeed you are a practicing physician, then I have to question your professional competence in making such blanket statement.
Are these drugs overprescribed? Yes, most certainly. However, to state that SSRIs make some (implied all) homocidal is borderline malpractice. You are as bad as those physicians that overprescribe.
A great many persons have been helped by the SSRIs. However, like ALL drugs, there will be adverse effects. Prudence is always called for in their use - all medications.
You omitted the immediately preceding sentence about Asperger patients which I bolded. Why? Then you almost accuse me of malpractice because of people helped by SSRIs. Buy a clue. Comment# 22 has a link to serotonin syndrome. Most docs don't know what it is. Fewer still know about serotonin withdrawal syndrome, aka serotonin discontinuation syndrome. Both are associated with bizarre ideation including suicide and homicide, but they also have physical signs and symptoms. Your typical suicidal or homicidal patient has a normal physical examination. A doc can't make the diagnosis if the doc doesn't know it exists. Go to the link for SSRI Stories in the original article when you have the time. It has 4800+ stories that made the news.
“Fewer still know about serotonin withdrawal syndrome, aka serotonin discontinuation syndrome.”
I am fully aware of it, and still say you are an extremist and I question your medical competence. However, I am NOT a physician. So, my opinion means little.
I do know that were you to be in practice in my area...I would blow the whistle on you to the other Docs and the public. Most physicians that I know would consider you an embarassment.