Re: anti-depressants and teen suicide

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

my son was taking an anti-depressant when he was 8 or 9 (even though
there was no study of anti-d use by people that young). The
psychiatrist took him off because it encouraged bipolarity,
specifically mania. (He thought up a movie he was going to make and
gleefully said stuff like "it will make us rich, rich!" It sounded to
me as if he'd do well in Hollywood, though he was a bit too young.)

if anti-d drugs encourage bipolarity, it could cause mood swings of
the sort that encourage suicidal thoughts (e.g., when one's dreams of
becoming "rich, rich!" turn to sawdust).

On 8/9/06, Walt Byars <wbyars@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Going from personal experience, I attempted suicide in 2004 (ingested a
> ton of pills but couldn't keep from throwing up, couldn't eat food for a
> few days though) when I was 18 a month after I started taking Luvox. I
> stopped taking it then, but I started taking it again in spring 2006 when
> I was twenty and while I didn't attempt suicide again I was baker acted in
> early july.
>
> As far as I can tell, the correlation is probably there because I changed
> my medications to anti-depressants when I was feeling worst. Perhaps this
> could be why the study found the results, because the people who were
> worst were more likely to take antidepressants.
>
> > [there was some discussion of this awhile back on pen-l]
> >
> > August 8, 2006/New York TIMES
> > New Depression Findings Could Alter Treatments
> > By BENEDICT CAREY
> >
> > ...


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