One of the greatest difficulties with medications for mental health is that people take their meds, feel good, so they stop taking their meds. This is especially true with bipolar and schizophrenia patients.
Thus, you must be open minded in that the meds may not be the cause. The cause is stopping the meds.
If there is underlying anger, meds will NEVER take away the anger. They can only temporarily block it. The same is true with the feeling of grief from loss or depression.
Be careful as correlation does not mean causation.
Crazy people take meds. Crazy people do crazy things. The meds may not be causing crazy people to do crazy things.
Yes, it is true that these meds are powerful and it is well known that just quitting those meds also cause problems-they need to be weaned off carefully.
However, I think that you should also be open minded. I am not talking about people who are bipolar and schizophrenic. My niece was married to a bipolar person who used to have a problem staying on his meds. That is NOT the problem I’m reading about or writing about.
The cases I’ve been reading about are not bipolar nor schizophrenic. These are people or kids who go to their GP or other a mental health professional with some anxiety, or a kid with ADHD etc and then a tragedy strikes-behavior that was not typical for the person-even though they were taking their meds.
In the first case that went to court, the Drug Company’s own data showed that people still on their meds, were having these problems. The FDA was not fully informed at the time the drug was approved. No effort had been made to determine why some of the people had a problem.
What I have suggested is that it be investigated further. While the PHARM companies usually just settle out of court, there have been recent cases where there was sufficient evidence that the plaintiffs have won settlement.
I just finished reading a legal brief regarding this where it was noted that evidence suggests that part of the problem might be that some apparently lack the ability to metabolize it correctly and it builds up to too much, and perhaps a compatibility test could be developed.
So what I am saying that there is ample evidence to show a correlation, and that should be investigated and tested to determine why that correlation exists. So I am open to whatever those results might be.
I know that I would never allow a kid of mine to be on these drugs after what I have read, most especially for a diagnosis of ADHD.