Has it ever crossed your mind, even for a brief moment, that people who use and are prescribed anti-psychotic drugs, are as a result, assumed to be psychotic?????
Did you read this article?
Primary care doctors prescribe SSRI-antidepressants to millions of adults, adolescents and children, certainly not only for treatment of depression anymore. SSRI’s are prescribed for school phobias, bed wetting, eating disorders, sleep disturbances (insomnia), nail biting, hair pulling, headache, gambling addiction, alcohol addiction, back pain, stomach upset, premenstrual syndrome, etc., and even to “feel better then well”. SSRI’s have become all purpose “feel good pills”, nowadays, in the year 2000. Unfortunately many doctors are unaware of the major consequences and some of them don’t even seem to care. They argue that the positive effects of SSRI’s far outweigh their negative effects. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Really!
And just how do you prove that.
back in my day, there was a rash of kids who offed themselves in all sorts of imaginative ways. Not a single dose of anti-psycotic medication was used or available at the time. Crazie's were warehoused in what we affectionately called "Nut-houses" and this anomaly is and has been common since public schools were invented.
Now tell me again how these drugs are solely responsible and there is a direct linkage.