Posted by SLS on August 7, 2012, at 20:45:56
In reply to Psych meds, media + killing sprees, posted by brynb on August 7, 2012, at 18:49:27
> I found this to be an interesting read:
>
> http://www.prisonplanet.com/aurora-phase-2-dr-lynne-fenton-the-batman-killer-the-drugs-and-the-drug-money.htmlInteresting blog.
It seems that antidepressants are the drugs that people love to hate.
How do you think the public would react if Holmes were found to be taking an antidepressant?
How do you think the public would react if Holmes were found to be taking an antipsychotic?
My guess is that people would blame an antidepressant but exonerate an antipsychotic. To the public, people who take antipsychotics are "really" sick and capable of committing insane acts, even without drugs. However, much of the public believes that people who take antidepressants really don't need them because everyone gets depressed from time to time. Since not everyone who gets depressed from time to time shoots people, many conclude that it must be the antidepressant that is responsible for insane acts.
Is it the drug that is to blame or the illness that the drug was meant to treat? Sometimes, it might be both.
I do believe that antidepressants can produce adverse psychiatric effects. I don't know with what frequency this occurs, though. Neither do I know the frequency with which cortisone produces such effects, even though medicine recognizes that it does. Why is there no call to remove cortisone from the market?
I don't think this is a black-or-white issue.
- Scott
Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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