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From Prozac to Parkland: Are Psychiatric Drugs Causing Mass Shootings?
The New American ^ | Saturday, 17 February 2018 | Selwyn Duke

Posted on 02/17/2018 11:20:08 AM PST by nickcarraway

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To: nickcarraway

Of course. The only surprise is that it’s being brought up in mainstream media. Disenfranchised drug-addled young men can’t distinguish their violent, values-starved fantasy world from the real world where they were ignored or marginalized. The start of a solution would be to provide them real world experiences they felt positive about. I agree with those who advocate for hands-on vocational education a part of the solution.


21 posted on 02/17/2018 2:17:19 PM PST by grania (Deplorable and Proud of It!)
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To: vooch

No, what I was saying is that many of the anti-depressents and psychotropic drugs say not for someone under 30, or under 25 or under 18 and they get prescribed anyway or when the person is just over the calendar age and Bam, big problems.


22 posted on 02/17/2018 2:20:10 PM PST by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: miss marmelstein
A lot of psychiatric medication is not appropriate for kids. I have a friend who is a doctor and his ex took him to a doctor and he was put on such a medication. My friend freaked out when he found out, because it causes suicidal ideation in children. The ex took him back to the doctor, who doubled the dose. Sure enough, the child attempted suicide. Fortunately unsuccessfully.

I am not against psychiatric medication, but too much it's prescribed sloppily and unscientifically. And it should never be prescribed without therapy.

For example, Serotonin reuptake inhibitors will not help people who have normal amounts of serotonin. Quite the opposite. But that's not how they've been prescribed.

23 posted on 02/17/2018 2:32:19 PM PST by nickcarraway
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So get a better doctor. I've never known anyone - and in NYC a lot pf people seek therapy - to try to commit suicide because of some drug. Statically, people only try it when coming out of a SEVERE depression and the drug elevates their depression to make a hurtful act.
24 posted on 02/17/2018 2:46:31 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: nickcarraway

More gun laws will take care of this.


25 posted on 02/17/2018 3:06:01 PM PST by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: Ann Archy

Bad parenting and no God in home or school - that’s it in a nutshell.

This is the reason there is so much “mental illness”, leading to the use of so many drugs.

If you think of every problem our society has, following the teachings of Scriptures will rectify it, or at the very least give us instruction on dealing with it.


26 posted on 02/17/2018 3:15:21 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: JudyinCanada

YOU are right. The lack of love (God), and attention at home has much to do with why children/teens do what they do.

As a former CJ Instructor, let me say this, there was a study done in Juvenile Detention Centers, with surveys on why those young people ended up there. One thing stood out, most felt no one would care if they were gone, and incarcerated. There was NOT one relationship...parent, grandparent, older sibling, or even community, that they felt close enough to, that would cause them to think about NOT doing the crime. Sad.

AS families we can miss the ability to connect with children or teens, because we do not realize how important their need for love really is, and making the effort to get close to them is usually abandoned; if they are too much trouble or their attitude offends us. Usually, there is a reason for their anger, attitude, or actions. Finding out what that is will not only help them stay out of system, but teach us that inside... there is a pain they would love to share, but can’t, unless there is close relationship that is safe!


27 posted on 02/17/2018 3:34:34 PM PST by Ambrosia
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To: nickcarraway

Track the scripts and cross reference young males mentally deranged, making sure they have access to rifles and pistols ... a data base to tap when the oligarchy needs a diversion (criminal Mule-er and treasonous Hillary, anyone?) or cause for enslaving We The People (take weapons from law abiding citizens, so only government goon-squads and criminals have them).


28 posted on 02/17/2018 3:43:24 PM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: nickcarraway

Most of the drugs have “warnings that are supposed to be ignored” about how they “may cause feeling of depression/thoughts of suicide/going off the deep end in some tragic way” and we so much of the violence being done by those with the drugs in their system and yet they continue to be distributed like Pez used to be...


29 posted on 02/18/2018 3:39:39 AM PST by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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To: miss marmelstein

“We know nothing about his somewhat shady lineage,”

He was a Russian orphan. FAS is reported to be common among them, and Romanian orphans as well.


30 posted on 02/18/2018 12:09:02 PM PST by Pelham (California, a subsidiary of Mexico, Inc.)
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To: Pelham

Is that definite, Pelham?


31 posted on 02/18/2018 12:13:42 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein

Bryan Suits was the source. He’s usually pretty reliable about sourcing his information.


32 posted on 02/18/2018 8:26:30 PM PST by Pelham (California, a subsidiary of Mexico, Inc.)
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To: miss marmelstein

But then I can’t find any confirmation of Suit’s claim regarding Cruz so it’s surely not ‘definite’. I don’t know where he got his information.


33 posted on 02/18/2018 8:59:18 PM PST by Pelham (California, a subsidiary of Mexico, Inc.)
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To: nickcarraway; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks nickcarraway.

34 posted on 02/19/2018 4:08:48 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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It’s a racket as well, as schools that can get their kids on psychotropic drugs can also obtain “special needs” benefits from the state and federal gov’ts.


35 posted on 02/20/2018 2:24:47 PM PST by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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