Posted by linkadge on May 19, 2013, at 12:14:05
In reply to Statistics on adolescent suicide, posted by Willful on May 18, 2013, at 21:34:54
GSK hiding data which shows paroxetine increasing suicide and self injurous behavior doesn't help. Paroxetine was also shown (in one study) to increase suicidal feelings in health controls who took the drug for a few weeks.
I do think tht SSRIs have the real potential to increase suicide in youth. Youth already have the trendancy to act impulsively, without SSRIs coming in the way to blunt what little inhibitory executive function they have.
The only two times I attempted (as a youth) were after dose escalation of citalopram and venlafaxine. I do think the black box warings are well waranted.
Since the warnings went out, suicide rates may have gone up. My belief, however, is that this is due to a generalized loss of confidence in the psychiatric community as a whole. The result is that fewer patients get "treatment". It is the loss of hope that (IMHO) caused any such increased rate of suicide.
However, this does not justify the use of treatment that (IMHO) probably increase suicidal tendancies.
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