Navy Yard shooting: Aaron Alexis, Psych meds N SSRIs ?

Just wanted to add, whoever wrote that anti depressants should be considered GREAT RISK. and should be told this when considereing whethere to take one or not. Shold consider the SEVERE side effects of anti depressants, suicidality and homicidality among some. Yes , they should be considered a great risk, when enquiring about depression 'treatments'. Personally, if someone heard the side effects COULD include homicidality, they wouldn't think twice, as if someone would take that if the effect really were validated...but in *some* ppl it does occur, ppl should know the truth before decideing what to take!

I concur. I once took cymbalta and it made everything more vivid. Everything jumped out at me. I have a friend who is part Native American and it made her seeing things more vivid. She felt like she was drowning one time because the fish on her shower curtain became *alive.* She normally takes an aboriginal attitude and can deal with seeing nearly anything but this cymbalta ruined her spiritual experiences and made her afraid. Now, she feels that her mind has changed. Seriously. The anti depressant increased her social anxiety as well.

Years and years ago, in my early 20's, I was put on Prozac. It made me dumb, happy and big.

Devilock wrote:In my opinion, the problem wasn't if they had a 'psych history', that had nothing to do with it, the problem was , that viewing the list of names of the mass shooters, they had mainly ALL been TAKING or WITHDRAWING from anti depressants (mainly), and some anti psychotics.

The problem is, are these drugs causing homicidality?

IMO, the initial problem is that you can never be sure if a person has been diagnosed accurately or not because there are no facts to support this stuff.

I think very few people even know about the link between psych meds and the mass shootings, the T.V news is silent about it or blames video games.

So what's going on here, are the people who know what's best for us, commonly referred to as "they" decided that it would be more harmful for "us" to know the truth ? Have "they" decided that ?

Is it like Spock logic , "that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few".
-Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

The needs few who get shot by mass shooters V.s the needs of many people who may not take psych meds if they get a bad rap ? Or is it the needs of the few who get shot by mass shooters V.s the needs of the many who get rich selling pharma drugs ?

Why no Federal Investigation into the Link between Psychotropic Drugs and Mass Murder ?

People are asking for one, See http://www.google.com/search?q=Call+for+a+Federal+Investigation+into+the+Link+between+Psychotropic+Drugs+and+Mass+Murder

I don't know the entire chemistry of these drugs-the antipsychotics, but it seems to cut off the reasoning part of the brain. I do wonder if the antipsychotics do create an environment for this type of thing. I know when I take any type of antipsychotic, I am either sick, my frontal lobes feel real thick and I am tired and irritated or my reasoning is cut off. I do believe also that antipsychotics cause deep depression.

I know two people personally who take rhipserdol.

That NAMI theme of medications seemingly creating miraculous circumstances is quite false.

And I still think that young males in our society are discriminated against.

Cate68 wrote:I don't know the entire chemistry of these drugs-the antipsychotics, but it seems to cut off the reasoning part of the brain. I do wonder if the antipsychotics do create an environment for this type of thing. I know when I take any type of antipsychotic, I am either sick, my frontal lobes feel real thick and I am tired and irritated or my reasoning is cut off. I do believe also that antipsychotics cause deep depression.

I know two people personally who take rhipserdol.

That NAMI theme of medications seemingly creating miraculous circumstances is quite false.

And I still think that young males in our society are discriminated against.

Rhisperdal isn't some big bad drug. I went cold turkey off it and a anxiety drug. This stuff is not helping you but it certainly is helping business and hurting you. Anyone with a strong mind gets off that mess as soon as they can.

Navy Yard Shooter on Antidepressant Trazodone.

Trazodone is not FDA approved for use as a sleep aid. Check this out,

"Today as we watched the story unfold on CNN we heard about the type of person Aaron’s stepfather said he was. He had recently been treated for insomnia, and it was said that Aaron was hearing voices coming though the walls. We couldn’t help but think that this sounded a lot like what was going on with our own daughter when she was given Trazodone, an antidepressant, that is Not approved by the FDA to be used as a sleep medication."

Read more http://www.jonnyslaw.org/navy-yard-shooter-on-antidepressant-trazodone/