SSRI Effects ------------ http://www.druginfonet.com/faq/new/DRUG_FAQ/Wellbutrin.htm Doctors' Answers to "Frequently Asked Questions" - Wellbutrin http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-06/mc-rsb061506.php REM sleep behavior disorder at young age linked to antidepressant use http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5435.shtml http://ssristories.com/ Before you take that antidepressant, visit this web site By Martha Rosenberg 20121218 http://health.usnews.com/health-news/news/articles/2012/12/16/aspergers-autism-not-linked-to-violence-experts BEX ALERT - Asperger's, Autism Not Linked to Violence: Experts Despite media reports alleging that the gunman involved in the Connecticut school shootings had Asperger's syndrome, experts were quick to assert Sunday that there is no link between the condition -- a mild form of autism -- and violence. WRH Commentary: Nobody is saying that Asperger's or Autism is the cause of the violence. It is the medications used to treat those conditions that have a long record of triggering suicide and violence. Eric Harris age 17 (first on Zoloft then Luvox) and Dylan Klebold aged 18 (Colombine school shooting in Littleton, Colorado), killed 12 students and 1 teacher, and wounded 23 others, before killing themselves. Klebold’s medical records have never been made available to the public. Jeff Weise, age 16, had been prescribed 60 mg/day of Prozac (three times the average starting dose for adults!) when he shot his grandfather, his grandfather’s girlfriend and many fellow students at Red Lake, Minnesota. He then shot himself. 10 dead, 12 wounded. Cory Baadsgaard, age 16, Wahluke (Washington state) High School, was on Paxil (which caused him to have hallucinations) when he took a rifle to his high school and held 23 classmates hostage. He has no memory of the event. Chris Fetters, age 13, killed his favorite aunt while taking Prozac. Christopher Pittman, age 12, murdered both his grandparents while taking Zoloft. Mathew Miller, age 13, hung himself in his bedroom closet after taking Zoloft for 6 days. Jarred Viktor, age 15, stabbed his grandmother 61 times after 5 days on Paxil. Kip Kinkel, age 15, (on Prozac and Ritalin) shot his parents while they slept then went to school and opened fire killing 2 classmates and injuring 22 shortly after beginning Prozac treatment. Luke Woodham, age 16 (Prozac) killed his mother and then killed two students, wounding six others. A boy in Pocatello, ID (Zoloft) in 1998 had a Zoloft-induced seizure that caused an armed stand off at his school. Michael Carneal (Ritalin), age 14, opened fire on students at a high school prayer meeting in West Paducah, Kentucky. Three teenagers were killed, five others were wounded. A young man in Huntsville, Alabama (Ritalin) went psychotic chopping up his parents with an ax and also killing one sibling and almost murdering another. Andrew Golden, age 11, (Ritalin) and Mitchell Johnson, aged 14, (Ritalin) shot 15 people, killing four students, one teacher, and wounding 10 others. TJ Solomon, age 15, (Ritalin) high school student in Conyers, Georgia opened fire on and wounded six of his class mates. Rod Mathews, age 14, (Ritalin) beat a classmate to death with a bat. James Wilson, age 19, (various psychiatric drugs) from Breenwood, South Carolina, took a.22 caliber revolver into an elementary school killing two young girls, and wounding seven other children and two teachers. Elizabeth Bush, age 13, (Paxil) was responsible for a school shooting in Pennsylvania. Jason Hoffman (Effexor and Celexa) – school shooting in El Cajon, California. Jarred Viktor, age 15, (Paxil), after five days on Paxil he stabbed his grandmother 61 times. Chris Shanahan, age 15 (Paxil) in Rigby, ID who out of the blue killed a woman. Jeff Franklin (Prozac and Ritalin), Huntsville, AL, killed his parents as they came home from work using a sledge hammer, hatchet, butcher knife and mechanic’s file, then attacked his younger brothers and sister. Neal Furrow (Prozac) in LA Jewish school shooting reported to have been court-ordered to be on Prozac along with several other medications. Kevin Rider, age 14, was withdrawing from Prozac when he died from a gunshot wound to his head. Initially it was ruled a suicide, but two years later, the investigation into his death was opened as a possible homicide. The prime suspect, also age 14, had been taking Zoloft and other SSRI antidepressants. Alex Kim, age 13, hung himself shortly after his Lexapro prescription had been doubled. Diane Routhier was prescribed Welbutrin for gallstone problems. Six days later, after suffering many adverse effects of the drug, she shot herself. Billy Willkomm, an accomplished wrestler and a University of Florida student, was prescribed Prozac at the age of 17. His family found him dead of suicide – hanging from a tall ladder at the family’s Gulf Shore Boulevard home in July 2002. Kara Jaye Anne Fuller-Otter, age 12, was on Paxil when she hung herself from a hook in her closet. Kara’s parents said “…. the damn doctor wouldn’t take her off it and I asked him to when we went in on the second visit. I told him I thought she was having some sort of reaction to Paxil…”). Gareth Christian, Vancouver, age 18, was on Paxil when he committed suicide in 2002, (Gareth’s father could not accept his son’s death and killed himself.) Julie Woodward, age 17, was on Zoloft when she hung herself in her family’s detached garage. Matthew Miller was 13 when he saw a psychiatrist because he was having difficulty at school. The psychiatrist gave him samples of Zoloft. Seven days later his mother found him dead, hanging by a belt from a laundry hook in his closet. Kurt Danysh, age 18, and on Prozac, killed his father with a shotgun. He is now behind prison bars, and writes letters, trying to warn the world that SSRI drugs can kill. Woody ____, age 37, committed suicide while in his 5th week of taking Zoloft. Shortly before his death his physician suggested doubling the dose of the drug. He had seen his physician only for insomnia. He had never been depressed, nor did he have any history of any mental illness symptoms. A boy from Houston, age 10, shot and killed his father after his Prozac dosage was increased. Hammad Memon, age 15, shot and killed a fellow middle school student. He had been diagnosed with ADHD and depression and was taking Zoloft and “other drugs for the conditions.”. Matti Saari, a 22-year-old culinary student, shot and killed 9 students and a teacher, and wounded another student, before killing himself. Saari was taking an SSRI and a benzodiazapine. Steven Kazmierczak, age 27, shot and killed five people and wounded 21 others before killing himself in a Northern Illinois University auditorium. According to his girlfriend, he had recently been taking Prozac, Xanax and Ambien. Toxicology results showed that he still had trace amounts of Xanax in his system. Finnish gunman Pekka-Eric Auvinen, age 18, had been taking antidepressants before he killed eight people and wounded a dozen more at Jokela High School – then he committed suicide. Asa Coon from Cleveland, age 14, shot and wounded four before taking his own life. Court records show Coon was on Trazodone. Jon Romano, age 16, on medication for depression, fired a shotgun at a teacher in his New York high school. 20130111 http://ssristories.com/ SSRI Stories This website is a collection of 4,800+ news stories with the full media article available, mainly criminal in nature, that have appeared in the media (newspapers, TV, scientific journals) or that were part of FDA testimony in either 1991, 2004 or 2006, in which antidepressants are mentioned. This web site focuses on the Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs), of which Prozac (fluoxetine) was the first. Other SSRIs are Zoloft (sertraline), Paxil (paroxetine) (known in the UK as Seroxat), Celexa (citalopam), Lexapro (escitalopram), and Luvox (fluvoxamine). Other newer antidepressants included in this list are Remeron (mirtazapine), Anafranil (clomipramine) and the SNRIs Effexor (venlafaxine), Cymbalta (duloxetine) and Pristiq (desvenlafaxine) as well as the dopamine reuptake inhibitor antidepressant Wellbutrin (bupropion) (also marketed as Zyban). 20130201 http://www.peoplespharmacy.com/2008/05/26/stopping-antide/ Stopping Antidepressant Makes Brain Shiver google: BRAIN SHIVERS ---------------- Antidepressants and selfishness The following is a mail I received today, about antidepressants and selfishness. This is something I have spoken about here. Since antidepressants ruin the frontal lobes, where caring and love come from, and leave the rest of the brain intact, where selfishness and self preservation come from, there is no doubt that antidepressants cause people to become selfish, because they destroy the empathy which causes people to be giving. This mail states it very nicely. Jim, I just found your website after trying to find a link to anti-depressants and selfishness. Finally, there is a cause and affect. I have family members and friends and former family member that take/took anti-depressants for years. I observed that the level of selfishness of these individuals was quite shocking and puzzling at the same time. You are the first person to have it in print that indeed the cause and affect can be these horrific anti-depressant drugs! This is pharmakia at it's finest for destruction of human nature. Thank you. DM ---------------- Adam Lanza was reported to be taking Fanapt, which is not an anti-depressant but an anti-psychotic. The manufacturer of Fanapt warms that it can trigger episodes of extreme rage and paranoia. Unless specifically looked for, Fanapt will not show up on a general tox screening. It is perhaps because of this that the original article is blocking comments on this story. But other mass shooters are confirmed to have either been on or withdrawing from SSRI anti-depressants. Eric Harris age 17 (first on Zoloft then Luvox) and Dylan Klebold aged 18 (Colombine school shooting in Littleton, Colorado), killed 12 students and 1 teacher, and wounded 23 others, before killing themselves. Klebold's medical records have never been made available to the public. Jeff Weise, age 16, had been prescribed 60 mg/day of Prozac (three times the average starting dose for adults!) when he shot his grandfather, his grandfather's girlfriend and many fellow students at Red Lake, Minnesota. He then shot himself. 10 dead, 12 wounded. Cory Baadsgaard, age 16, Wahluke (Washington state) High School, was on Paxil (which caused him to have hallucinations) when he took a rifle to his high school and held 23 classmates hostage. He has no memory of the event. Chris Fetters, age 13, killed his favorite aunt while taking Prozac. Christopher Pittman, age 12, murdered both his grandparents while taking Zoloft. Mathew Miller, age 13, hung himself in his bedroom closet after taking Zoloft for 6 days. Jarred Viktor, age 15, stabbed his grandmother 61 times after 5 days on Paxil. Kip Kinkel, age 15, (on Prozac and Ritalin) shot his parents while they slept then went to school and opened fire killing 2 classmates and injuring 22 shortly after beginning Prozac treatment. Luke Woodham, age 16 (Prozac) killed his mother and then killed two students, wounding six others. A boy in Pocatello, ID (Zoloft) in 1998 had a Zoloft-induced seizure that caused an armed stand off at his school. Michael Carneal (Ritalin), age 14, opened fire on students at a high school prayer meeting in West Paducah, Kentucky. Three teenagers were killed, five others were wounded.. A young man in Huntsville, Alabama (Ritalin) went psychotic chopping up his parents with an ax and also killing one sibling and almost murdering another. Andrew Golden, age 11, (Ritalin) and Mitchell Johnson, aged 14, (Ritalin) shot 15 people, killing four students, one teacher, and wounding 10 others. TJ Solomon, age 15, (Ritalin) high school student in Conyers, Georgia opened fire on and wounded six of his class mates. Rod Mathews, age 14, (Ritalin) beat a classmate to death with a bat. James Wilson, age 19, (various psychiatric drugs) from Breenwood, South Carolina, took a .22 caliber revolver into an elementary school killing two young girls, and wounding seven other children and two teachers. Elizabeth Bush, age 13, (Paxil) was responsible for a school shooting in Pennsylvania Jason Hoffman (Effexor and Celexa) – school shooting in El Cajon, California Jarred Viktor, age 15, (Paxil), after five days on Paxil he stabbed his grandmother 61 times. Chris Shanahan, age 15 (Paxil) in Rigby, ID who out of the blue killed a woman. Jeff Franklin (Prozac and Ritalin), Huntsville, AL, killed his parents as they came home from work using a sledge hammer, hatchet, butcher knife and mechanic's file, then attacked his younger brothers and sister. Neal Furrow (Prozac) in LA Jewish school shooting reported to have been court-ordered to be on Prozac along with several other medications. Kevin Rider, age 14, was withdrawing from Prozac when he died from a gunshot wound to his head. Initially it was ruled a suicide, but two years later, the investigation into his death was opened as a possible homicide. The prime suspect, also age 14, had been taking Zoloft and other SSRI antidepressants. Alex Kim, age 13, hung himself shortly after his Lexapro prescription had been doubled. Diane Routhier was prescribed Welbutrin for gallstone problems. Six days later, after suffering many adverse effects of the drug, she shot herself. Billy Willkomm, an accomplished wrestler and a University of Florida student, was prescribed Prozac at the age of 17. His family found him dead of suicide – hanging from a tall ladder at the family's Gulf Shore Boulevard home in July 2002. Kara Jaye Anne Fuller-Otter, age 12, was on Paxil when she hung herself from a hook in her closet. Kara's parents said "…. the damn doctor wouldn't take her off it and I asked him to when we went in on the second visit. I told him I thought she was having some sort of reaction to Paxil…") Gareth Christian, Vancouver, age 18, was on Paxil when he committed suicide in 2002, (Gareth's father could not accept his son's death and killed himself.) Julie Woodward, age 17, was on Zoloft when she hung herself in her family's detached garage. Matthew Miller was 13 when he saw a psychiatrist because he was having difficulty at school. The psychiatrist gave him samples of Zoloft. Seven days later his mother found him dead, hanging by a belt from a laundry hook in his closet. Kurt Danysh, age 18, and on Prozac, killed his father with a shotgun. He is now behind prison bars, and writes letters, trying to warn the world that SSRI drugs can kill. Woody ____, age 37, committed suicide while in his 5th week of taking Zoloft. Shortly before his death his physician suggested doubling the dose of the drug. He had seen his physician only for insomnia. He had never been depressed, nor did he have any history of any mental illness symptoms. A boy from Houston, age 10, shot and killed his father after his Prozac dosage was increased. Hammad Memon, age 15, shot and killed a fellow middle school student. He had been diagnosed with ADHD and depression and was taking Zoloft and "other drugs for the conditions." Matti Saari, a 22-year-old culinary student, shot and killed 9 students and a teacher, and wounded another student, before killing himself. Saari was taking an SSRI and a benzodiazapine. Steven Kazmierczak, age 27, shot and killed five people and wounded 21 others before killing himself in a Northern Illinois University auditorium. According to his girlfriend, he had recently been taking Prozac, Xanax and Ambien. Toxicology results showed that he still had trace amounts of Xanax in his system. Finnish gunman Pekka-Eric Auvinen, age 18, had been taking antidepressants before he killed eight people and wounded a dozen more at Jokela High School – then he committed suicide. Asa Coon from Cleveland, age 14, shot and wounded four before taking his own life. Court records show Coon was on Trazodone. Jon Romano, age 16, on medication for depression, fired a shotgun at a teacher in his New York high school. 20140124 http://ssristories.org/old/index1.php Index to SSRI Stories Re-posted because it looks like there is a conspiracy afoot to edit/remove the original index and replace it with an innocuous version. 20140425 http://theinternetpost.net/2014/04/24/open-your-eyes-to-ssris/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btx5MfCDNDU Open your Eyes to SSRIs Researchers found that antidepressants hinder serotonin regulation and can cause digestive problems, atypical sperm development, abnormal bleeding, stroke and premature death. Antidepressant manufacturers warn of side effects on drug labels though patients do not always consider how the side effects will affect their lives, according to the study authors. Twenty-five years before Prozac, 1 in 10,000 of us per year was admitted for severe depressive disorder — melancholia. Today at any one point in time 1 in 10 of us are supposedly depressed and between 1 in 2 and 1 in 5 of us will be depressed over a lifetime. Around 1 in 10 pregnant women are on an antidepressant. The number of prescriptions for antidepressants is increasing by 5-10% each year, while the figure for people starting each year remains the same. This means that there is an increase of 5% to 10% in the number of people hooked to antidepressants each year. 20140424 http://www.naturalnews.com/044847_SSRIs_gateway_drug_mass_murder.html SSRIs: The gateway drug to mass murder Besides not having to release this information publicly under existing law, drug companies are also able to cover up SSRI-induced suicides by having these suicides classified as other forms of death. In some cases, coroners will declare obvious suicides as accidental deaths, for instance, which in the greater scheme of things makes it appear as though drug-induced suicides are far less frequent than they actually are. "You look at deaths where SSRIs have been involved, and case after case after case you see the coroner saying, 'Well, you know, he hanged himself, but we can't be sure that it was deliberate.' What?" asks Julie Wood, one of the proprietors of SSRIStories.org, a repository of cases of SSRI-induced harm and death. "You read so many of these things that you start to think, 'Well, no wonder the suicide rate hasn't changed -- nobody's counting suicides as suicides.'" 20150405 http://www.blacklistednews.com/Study%3A_70%25_of_People_on_Antidepressants_Don%E2%80%99t_Have_Depression/43171/0/38/38/Y/M.html http://naturalsociety.com/study-70-of-people-on-antidepressants-dont-have-depression/ STUDY: 70% OF PEOPLE ON ANTIDEPRESSANTS DON’T HAVE DEPRESSION If sales for antidepressants such as Zoloft, Lexapro, or Prozac tell us anything, it’s that depression is sweeping the nation. But a new study questions the validity of most of these sales. The study has found that the majority of individuals on antidepressants – a whopping 69% – do not even meet the criteria for clinical depression. These individuals are likely just experiencing normal sadness and hardships that most of us experience. In addition to finding that nearly two-thirds of antidepressant-takers don’t meet criteria for depression, the researchers also note how 38% of those taking antidepressants for other psychiatric disorders do not meet the criteria. These include panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, social phobia, general anxiety, and a number of other arguably fabricated mental disorders. WRH: IF you have ever wondered to what degree doctors are rabid enablers of Big Pharma, and why, wonder no more!!! 20150730 Jim Stone July 29 2015 Antidepressant nightmare Hey James, I have been married to my wife for 10 yrs and have been dealing with a huge abundance of disrespect. She doesn't care that I am not happy. She does things like she gets milk for everyone at the dinner table but me. Im not going to go thru all the details but I have been trying to figure out were my wife TURNED INTO A HEARTLESS bitch. And that's truly a perfect analogy. We have two kids and She had helped me get custody of my daughter shortly after we met.. well after my son was born and she started taking these antidepressents. Well I just realized a week ago that this whole time I have been trying to figure out what changed that has made this sooo bad. we have been having problems for a bit and 2 days before fathers day she told me to pak my stuff and get out. I realized that the only hope we had left was if she stopped tKING CELEXA AND maybe that WOULD HELp. then I researched it and this changed EVERYTHING I have felt about our relationship.....finally everything made sense.....this is why she has started TREATING MY Daughter and I soo rotten and when she had my youngest daughter and she stOP[PED TAKING THEM WHEN SHE WAS PREG AND WE DIDNT FIGHT FOR OVER A YEAR....I remember because we bragged to her family about it..... She quit taking them about 6 days ago and I knew she was going to get mean but jeez shes turned soooo hatefull. Please let me know what to expect and if you think she be able to look back and see how mean she can be. I am, trying to plan on were to live and don't know if I shud expect her to come around My response: Celexa is one of the worst. The worst ones are Celexa, Cymbalta, and Effexor. Zoloft turns many people into demons as well. You won't likely be a demon on Effexor, as long as you keep taking it. But just try quitting Effexor. Just try! My guess? I hate to bring bad news, but when she stopped taking them the first time, it was a while ago and she was not totally destroyed yet. The second time around probably wiped her out. Many antidepressants totally destroy empathy, which is why she does not care if you are sad. The damage is usually permanent. This would be one to keep an eye on, if she comes around and is OK in a month or so, I would really be surprised. Chances are it is over, and that the drugs did what they were designed to do - permanently split and destroy families. Not all are created equal however, and the dose really matters a lot. 10 mg of zoloft will cause huge mood swings, flakiness and an inability to stay grounded in most people. But if they stop, even after years on 10 mg they often are fine. But if they are slammed with a large dose, zoloft is a total destroyer. So is Effexor, Cymbalta, Celexa. These are the top ones that destroy empathy. Or a small correction - Effexor puts people in a state where they pretty much go along with anything, but if they try to go off, WATCH OUT, and expect failure, Effexor will own you, PERIOD. It won't matter if you lack empathy if you will go along with everything anyway. This information is from a very long period of studying antidepressants, and talking to many many many people I did not know at random in public, when I asked them about antidepressants in their families and what happened. It is accurate info. -------------------------- 20141017 http://rense.com/general58/band2.htm Severe Warnings Ordered For ALL Antidepressants From Ann Blake Tracy, PhD Executive Director, International Coalition For Drug Awareness Atracyphd1@aol.com 10-15-4   FINALLY, after years of deadly drugs being available to children with no warning of the danger of increased fatalities due to suicide, the FDA issues a black box warnings for all antidepressants on the market!   This long overdue and many children have died or suffered serious damage as a result of this lack of warning. Perhaps NOW doctors will finally think before handing these drugs out like candy to children and teens.   The scientific evidence behind this has been out there for decades. All anyone ever had to do was read it. I explained that clearly in my latest testimony before the FDA on September 13, 2004. I will include that here.   I am Ann Blake Tracy, PhD, head of the International Coalition for Drug Awareness. I am the author of "Prozac: Panacea or Pandora." [Financial disclosure] My house has been mortgaged to the hilt to pay for the last 15 years that I have devoted to nothing but research on SSRI antidepressants and to fund my trip here.   I have testified as an expert witness for twelve and a half years in court cases involving these drugs. Research on serotonin has been clear from the very beginning, that the most damaging thing that could be done to the serotonergic system would be to impair one's ability to metabolize serotonin, yet that is exactly how SSRI antidepressants exert their effects. For decades research has shown that impairing serotonin metabolism will produce nightmares, hot flushes, migraines, pains around the heart, difficulty breathing, worsening of bronchial complaints, tension and anxiety which appear from out of nowhere, depression, suicide - especially very violent suicide and repeated attempts, hostility, violent crime, arson, substance abuse including cravings for alcohol and other drugs, psychosis, mania, organic brain disease [brain damage], autism, anorexia, reckless driving, Alzheimer's, impulsive behavior with no concern for punishment, and argumentative behavior.   How anyone ever thought it would be therapeutic to chemically induce these reactions is beyond me, yet these reactions are exactly what we witnessed in our society over the past decade and a half as a result of the widespread use of these drugs.   Can you remember two decades ago when depressed people used to slip away quietly to kill themselves rather than killing everyone around them and then themselves, as they do while taking an SSRI antidepressant?   A study out of the University of Southern California, in 1996, looked at a group of mutant mice that had been genetically engineered. In an experiment that had gone terribly wrong, they were the most violent creatures they had ever witnessed. They were born lacking the MAOA enzyme which metabolizes serotonin. The end result is the same as if they were taking an SSRI antidepressant which does inhibit the metabolism of serotonin.   This has been a national holocaust. It must end. These are extremely dangerous drugs that should have been banned as similar drugs were in the past. As a society, we once thought LSD and PCP to be miracle medications. We have never seen drugs so similar to LSD and PCP as these SSRIantidepressants are. All of these drugs produce dreaming during periods of wakefulness. The higher serotonin levels overstimulate the brain stem leading to a lack of muscle paralysis. That was seen clearly in the case of comedian Phil Hartman and his wife in the terrible murder-suicide [whose wrongful death suit has been settled by the makers of Zoloft]. Thank you.   Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D., Executive Director, International Coalition For Drug Awareness Website: <>www.drugawareness.org Author: Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? - Our Serotonin Nightmare & audio tape on safe withdrawal: "Help! I Can't Get Off My Antidepressant!" Order Number: 800-280-0730   Office: 801-282-5282 Cell: 801-209-1800   US Orders New Warnings On Antidepressants For Kids   10-15-4   WASHINGTON (Reuters) - All antidepressants must come with tough warnings explaining that the drugs increase the chances of suicidal behavior in some children and teens, U.S. health officials said on Friday.   In an order to drug makers, the Food and Drug Administration said the information to be highlighted in a black box must also state whether the drug has, or has not been, cleared for use by children. Only Eli Lilly and Co.'s Prozac is FDA-approved for treating pediatric depression.   © Reuters 2004. All Rights Reserved ---------------------------------------------------- 20160529 http://www.naturalnews.com/054150_antidepressants_serotonin_levels_side_effects.html How antidepressants ruin your natural serotonin so you can never be happy again ... without your pills "Antidepressants like Prozac, which are known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, raise levels of a brain-signalling molecule called serotonin, seemingly by blocking a compound that gets rid of serotonin. But after several weeks of taking the medicines, the brain responds by making less serotonin, which may be why when people stop taking them they can get long-term withdrawal symptoms." 20160608 http://www.naturalnews.com/054281_antidepressants_off-label_use_dangerous_drugs.html Medical journal openly admits 50% of people on antidepressants don't even have depression Nearly half of people taking depressants are not suffering from depression at all, according to a study conducted by researchers from McGill University in Montreal, and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). 20160806 http://www.blacklistednews.com/Prescription_Drugs_Are_Killing_Us_%E2%80%93_Meet_One_Of_The_Doctors_Who_Just_Published_A_Paper_About_It/53264/0/38/38/Y/M.html PRESCRIPTION DRUGS ARE KILLING US – MEET ONE OF THE DOCTORS WHO JUST PUBLISHED A PAPER ABOUT IT “Any drug causing more side effects than benefits will not be called a medicine. It would rather be called a poison.” Here, we are talking about antidepressants. Dr. Peter Gotzsche, co-founder of Cochrane Collaboration (the world’s foremost body in assessing medical evidence), is currently working to make the world aware of the fact that the side effects associated with the several pharmaceutical grade drugs are actually killing people all over the world. According to his research, 100,000 people in the United States alone die each year from the side effects of correctly-used prescription drugs. He published many papers reasoning the fact that antidepressants are making people suffer with its harmful effects to a large extent. WRH: I would far rather take my supplements and exercise than trust any doctor's prescription at this point. A number of years ago, I had joint pain so intense that I could not play my acoustic piano or harp. The HMO we went to gave me numerous tests, but none that ever got to the source of my discomfort. I was put on a pain medication by my doctors, which barely managed the pain. However, I found out later that the drug company which manufactured this drug was paying doctors to prescribe this medication, even if it was "off book" (had never been studied relative to the kind of pain for which it was being prescribed.) That was probably the big reason I was never given the one test I should have been given to find out what the root of my problem was; for chemical sensitivities. When Mike and I came back from San Francisco, where he was working on a project, the pain returned with a vengeance. I went to see my orthopedist, had an x-ray done, and this man said he could see nothing in the x-ray to explain the pain I was feeling. I remember coming home in tears and asking Mike, "Can you please tell me WHEN in my schedule do I have the time to be a hypochondriac?!?" He did some research on line, and found out that the kind of joint pain I was experiencing frequently came from sensitivity to formaldehyde precursors, which are ubiquitous in lower-end cosmetics and cleaning products. We read labels, and threw out a bunch of cosmetics, and cleansers. Within 24 hours, I was able to walk without pain for the first time in half a decade. The next time I went to my orthopedist, I threw the confirming research down on his office table, and told him, "The next time you have a client who comes in with these kind of symptoms, but you see nothing on the x-rays, have them tested for chemical sensitivity! You could have saved me from unnecessary pain and suffering if you and your team had done this from the beginning of my symptoms manifesting!!" When the Pfizer story got out, the two doctors who had been treating me either "retired", or were summarily fired from my HMO. This is why, in the future, I will have absolutely no problem asking a physician point-blank if they are compensated for prescribing whatever drug they are prescribing for me; call it a patient's right to know.