Posted by Squiggles on May 9, 2006, at 17:24:57
In reply to Re: Statistical question on SSRIs - Psychobabble says, posted by linkadge on May 9, 2006, at 17:11:01
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> The reasons people kill themselves is based on too many variables to account for. To make an obersvation like that is just an observation. Weren't suicide rates lowest in this century during WWII, before SSRIs? Its all just a trend.
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> If rates continued to drop consisntanty (which they won't) then we might be on to something.
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> If anything, the drop is related to an increased awareness of the disorder, ie message boards like this.
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> This board stopped me from off-ing myself from an acute suicidal reaction to zoloft.
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> Linkadge
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>Call me old-fashioned but I have always been
drawn to the "explanation" style of a case
be it suicide or an illness. Statistics will
tell you about something that the whole class
has in common, but scientific investigation will
point to the real cause(s). And in this case
as in others, a person commits suicide within
a particular multi-factoral context in which
he or she finds himself. If he has taken
a drug which after being stuporously depressed and lacking the vitality to pick up a gun, and that
drug suddenly energizes him, he may find a way out
of his misery at last. Another person, who has not been quite so depressed, may take the same
enervating drug and smash his car into a wall or take his anger out on something or someone.You get the picture - the drug CAN be the
necessary but not the final cause in his actions.
But the drug plays a very important role.
Squiggles
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