Extreme side-effects of antidepressants
SSRI drugs (sold as &#x27;anti-depressants&#x27;) have always been known to cause suicide ideation... While they do seem to help some people, it is now known that this is because of the drugs&#x27; effects on the neurosteroids [1], NOT because of &#x27;increased serotonin&#x27;. Anti-serotonin drugs (LSD, various MAOIs, etc) are much more effective anti-depressants.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Neuroactive_steroid#Role_in_antidepressant_action" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Neuroactive_steroid#Role_in_an...</a><p>There are some good articles in the Boston Globe&#x27;s archives about Prozac, circa 2000. &quot;Prozac, Revisited&quot;, etc [2]. Robert Whitaker [3] worked for the Boston Globe, before he wrote <i>Mad in America</i> and <i>Anatomy of an Epidemic.</i><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.narpa.org&#x2F;prozac.revisited.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.narpa.org&#x2F;prozac.revisited.htm</a> (the boston globe&#x27;s official archives site is not so easy to use, but I&#x27;ve previously verified that these stories exist)<p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.madinamerica.com&#x2F;robert-whitaker-new&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.madinamerica.com&#x2F;robert-whitaker-new&#x2F;</a><p>The first patient in this BBC article could also have been diagnosed as &#x27;exhausted&#x27;:<p>&gt; She had begun taking [SSRIs] <i>while caring for her seriously ill mother and studying for her final exams at Cambridge University,</i> but suffered severe side-effects after her GP prescribed a stronger dose of tablet. (emphasis added)<p>I think &#x27;exhaustion&#x27; is a frequent cause behind the symptoms labeled &quot;depression&quot;.<p>In May of this year, I watched Lexapro (an SSRI) destroy all the progress I&#x27;d made with my girlfriend... She&#x27;d asked for this drug a month after she&#x27;d escaped from her court-ordered tranquilization, because she thought it had helped her years ago. Really it just helped her relapse on cocaine then. This time it caused rapid heartbeat, and much anxiety. Her last benzodiazepine turned her into an anxious wreck... The psychiatrists got hold of her again, and they&#x27;re making sure that she will never recover.<p>About a week ago I went through videos on my phone... and found one of my girlfriend about a week before she was taken to the hospital. The video proves, beyond any doubt, that she is not &quot;persistently&quot; disabled, that the symptoms that originally put her in the hospital were entirely due to quitting her addictions cold-turkey, and not due to &#x27;defective genes&#x27; or other pseudo-scientific rationalization for forcing her to use palliative drugs.