Posted by europerep on September 18, 2015, at 4:55:40
In reply to Re: Young people on SSRI's commit more crimes?, posted by baseball55 on September 17, 2015, at 18:42:46
> A child psychiatrist I know believes some AD's increase suicide attempts in early treatment with teens because the AD's reduce vegetative symptoms before boosting mood, leading to a situation where people have the energy to carry out suicidal plans.
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> This is not at all the same as "reduced concern for one's well-being." Probably lots of people lie around thinking of suicide, but lack the energy and motivation to carry it through. It's possible that AD's allow people to get up and carry it through.Yes, that is indeed exactly what I had in mind when I wrote this:
"Or are you referring to the fact that in rare cases, when mood brightening takes longer to kick in than an increase in motivation in patients already harboring suicidal thoughts, these patients may experience increased suicidality and then possibly commit suicide? This can indeed happen, but it requires a lot of very specific circumstances (plus possibly errors on behalf of the prescriber), so making a statement as general and clear-cut as you made in your initial post is most certainly problematic."
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