Objective:
Raise Awareness about SSRIs violent behavior that has already killed many people and changed some people's lives that took these medicines.
SSRIs are being prescribed not only for those who are suffering Major Depression but also for people who are in distress because of life problems.
These antidepressants such as Prozac, Effexor, Paxil/Seroxat, Zoloft, Cymbalta and many others promote serious side effects, are very hard to withdraw and many people have already reported the hell they have to go through while tapering them.
One of the most terrible side effects, also a withdrawal symptom, is suicidal ideation that is not triggered by the disease that has led physicians to prescribe them but it's drug-induced.
Traci Johnson, a 19 years-old healthy volunteer hanged herself during Cymbalta clinical trials and was found dead in 7th February 2004
That is why this is the date for the International Day in Memory of SSRI Fatalities.
Violent behavior also leads people who are taking SSRIs, lost dosages or are withdrawing to harm other people as is demonstrated by reports of people who have killed induced by antidepressants.
Patients are not informed of these problems and many others like the teratogenic effects that has already been reported by some women who took SSRIs while pregnant.
Although there are many testimonies at the Web FDA, physicians and laboratories do not consider them as a source to Post Marketing Surveillance Trial which is the 4th phase of clinical trials.
They just claim that these testimonies are only anecdote evidence and not scientific data.
This are some of the aspects of this serious problem mental healthy and all the population of the world are facing: medicines that can make you kill yourself or others among other side effects.
It has already gone too far. People have the right to be informed about all of these harms and also that the theory that SSRI's antidepressants were done is an hypothesis that is questioned by serious psychiatrists.
I hope we can make people know what kind of problems they are facing when prescribed an SSRI antidepressant.
1 day ago Thanks for blog friends
by: Ana
I want to thank Bob Fiddaman, Matthew and Susan for writing at their blog a post about this date.
Here are the links:
http://itsquiteanexperience.blogspot.com/2010/02/international-day-in-memory-of-ssri.html
http://fiddaman.blogspot.com/2010/02/international-day-in-memory-of-ssri.html
http://ifyouregoingthoughhellkeepgoing.blogspot.com/2010/02/international-day-in-memory-of-ssri.html
3 days ago Thank you very much!
by: Ana
Thank you for joining and raising awareness. I hope that together we can make a difference and make more and more people know about side effects and withdrawal problems related to antidepressants SSRIs.
It is a very hard job but I believe we can do it.
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Thank you Mike!
ReplyDeleteWhen I saw the these antidepressants are tetarogenic I thought that it's the least we can do.
SSRIs being prescribed to "treat" rapers since it makes people impossible to have a sexual life due to physical and mind altering?
I guess I will publish the copy of the book where the psychiatrist claims this treatment is being done.
I have already publish it once but blogs have leave many things out of sight.
Thank you.
Great post, Mike. There needs to be more awareness for these issues. Psychiatric medication is passed out like candy now and patients don't always receive all the information they should.
ReplyDeleteSeems to me there's a rush to get some of these drugs to market so the pharmaceutical companies can start recovering R&D costs. I don't object to those companies making money...that's the point of being in business.
ReplyDeleteBut I don't understand why they can advertise to the general public. And it amazes me that they can advertise drugs with those long disclaimers about potential side effects. Whenever I hear those lists, I think the drug needs to cook a little more and be made safer.
Laura,you have got that right.
ReplyDeleteTravis,I do not know why the drug companies are allowed to advertise on Tv as well.they banned the tobacco companies from advertising their products.