Psychiatry Exposed

[Rayaan]

The calculated risk for suicide among depressed patients who were treated with antidepressants was 141 per 100 000 person years and, among the untreated, 259 per 100 000 person years (i.e., 1.8 times higher among the untreated).

Epidemiological data suggest antidepressants reduce suicide risk among depressives

That was published 18 years ago, and many newer studies have increasingly shown that there is indeed a link between suicide and antidepressants, along with sudden cardiac death and violence towards others. Different patients may respond to medications differently, yes, but the various side effects still exist and some of them are devastating.

High doses of antidepressants appear to increase risk of self-harm in children young adult

Emotional Side-effects of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors

Prescription Drugs Associated with Reports of Violence Towards Others

Sudden Death of Cardiac Origin and Psychotropic Drugs

I don't think you're truly grasping the nature and power of mental illness. When you become overwhelmed by it, you'll stick hot pokers into your skull if you think that will make you feel better. Any benefit from a medication would be worth great risk, because living a life consumed by depression is not living at all. It's just waiting to die.

I understand. It is extremely overwhelming for some people. The would rather die than live with such an unbearable amount of depression. So, yeah, what I was saying is much easier said than done. But again there's no apparent harm either in at least educating people beforehand about the potential hazards of the psychiatric drugs that are out there, whether they take them or not. That might make a little difference in some cases, I think. Knowledge is power. At least people with milder degrees of depression might be able to do something good for themselves by using this information.