A somber correlation: drugs & killers

These days it would be best that one does not reveal previous use of any prescription psycho-active drug, any more that addmitting to use of an illegal drug.
It can all be used against you, legally or illegally, should anyone wish to make a case of any sort against you, or to undermine your credibility as a witness.
 
Maby it rests on the idea that it is not my fault. I have a condition, I can't be responsible for my own actions rather than deal with it, i'll just take a pill.
 
Say the list is semi-correct, and all ~50 incidences involved people being treated medically for a mental illness. Wonder what the percentage would be if you take 50 and divide by the millions and millions of people who take similar medications and show marked improvement for their illness. What kind of percentage would that be? The list goes back to '88, so that's what, 25 years? Does anyone comprehend the volume of antidepressant medications that have been consumed in the last 25 years?
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<puts on thinkin' cap (backwards Methusala Seed Corn gimme hat)>

Sooooo...... ummmmm.....errrr.... I ain't so quick, gimme a sec, 'n lemmme git this straight......... you are saying that, because a handful of people on these psychotropuck drugs went bonkers, out of the tens of millions that took 'em ..... (that would make those folk them there "extreme statistical outliers" .... kinda like a squib factory load)- are we going to make drastic changes in how we live, and open ourselves to far worse risks, based on the possibility, at "worse than a found lottery ticket" odds of someone else makin' something bad happen? That's. very. near. the. dumbest. thing. I. EVER. heard. of..... Ever.....

...... except maybe that there idea that we should more highly regulate folk that own guns ........ 'cuz of the 100 million+ that do, a few do dumb stuff with 'em, so obviously, the regulations are not tough enough, 'cause somebody is still doing dumb stuff with guns!!!!!!!!!!!111111111!!!!

:D
 
I have first hand experience. Back in 2001 I lost my job due to massive outsourcing of IT jobs to India. I was not alone, for every IT position in my field that became available, there were 500+ applicants. I was a nervous wreck, and my wife, who is a mental health nurse, put me on Paxil. At first it calmed me down, but after about 6 weeks on it, I started thinking really morbid thoughts, it was like my whole thought process was getting screwed up, I could not remember things, and the worst, I did not become angry at people, I just started scheming how I could kill them! I was turning into a cold blooded psychopath, and thankfully I recognised these symptoms and quit cold turkey against the advice of my wife, and decided whatever happens I will deal with it. For sure these drugs make people kill or commit suicide, but big pharma makes so much money of it, anybody starting any serious investigation on it will have bad things happen to them.
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Hagar, thanks for sharing this. A very detailed example of what I've suspected, but never knew for sure.
 
Maybe I just missed it but what is the source of your list?

Not saying it's incorrect but this is the internet.
 
And I have very different experiences with these drugs. I took anti depressants for all told probably five years. Several types. No desire to kill anyone, no psychotic acts.
 
Randy, . . .

The source was simply a friend who sent it to me.

I only posted it as something many folks overlook, . . . another of the many, many items needed to be looked at if we are going to get any kind of a handle on any of the causations of mass homicidal behavior.

It certainly is not a "this is the cause", . . . just another straw on the camel's back so to speak.

I personally have more regard for a professional dog catcher than I do for any of the *ists who supposedly are able to "cure" mental illness, diffiiculty, problems, etc. YMMV

May God bless,
Dwight
 
And I have very different experiences with these drugs. I took anti depressants for all told probably five years. Several types. No desire to kill anyone, no psychotic acts.
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Yeah they are incredibly helpful for a lot of people, and generally pretty well tolerated.

I personally have more regard for a professional dog catcher than I do for any of the *ists who supposedly are able to "cure" mental illness, diffiiculty, problems, etc. YMMV
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There is a plethora of effective treatments for a large variety of mental illnesses, difficulties, problems, etc.

Yeah I'm being a smart ass and feel free to clarify, but if I read you right and you think "mental illness" as a whole is untreatable, you are dead wrong.
"Mental illness" is a whole slew of disorders, some extremely common, some rare, some major, some minor, etc. Medications can play anywhere from a minor to major role is various treatment plans. FYI.
 
The source was simply a friend who sent it to me.
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So it is an unscourced and poorly presented set of claims without a significant amount of information that would be relevant to the claims. So let me help.

The source would appear to be here...
http://ssristories.com/

This is a site dedicated to claiming anti-depressants are bad. In particular, from this page which has a lot of appropriate links to articles. I refenced one above which indicated that the summary claim is overly simplified and bogus as a stand alone claim.
http://ssristories.com/index.php?p=school

When you click on some of the individual stories. you will see that some of the summaries become apparent as not being representative of what is claimed in the summary. In some cases, you have to actually do your own legwork and look further into the names.

SSRI does not refer to the above page as containing killers or killings, but "school shootings/incidents." It is a more correct description even if the correlations are sometimes quite dubious.
 
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