Zero Suicide Rate For Depressed Seattle Area HMO Patients Who Did Not Take Drugs

[Guest guest]

Here is a paragraph from Healy in his new book Let Them Eat

Prozac on page 166 about the suicide rates among depressed patients in

a Seattle (a.k.a. Puget Sound) area HMO: " Later I found a study from

Simon and Von Korff, who looked at suicides among depressed patients

being treated by a health maintenance organization in Puget Sound.

Figures drawn from the early 1990s showed non-hospitalized depressed

patients committing suicide at a rate of 43 per one hundred thousand

patients. But patients not given drugs for their depression had a rate

of suicide of zero per one hundred thousands patients, reinforcing the

suggestion that mild depression could be in some way protective

(against suicide). "

Footnote: Weisman, MM. Beyond symptoms: social functioning and the new

antidepressants. Journal of Psychopharmacology 11 (1997), 4, S5 - S8.

[Guest guest]

Here is a paragraph from Healy in his new book Let Them Eat

Prozac on page 166 about the suicide rates among depressed patients in

a Seattle (a.k.a. Puget Sound) area HMO: " Later I found a study from

Simon and Von Korff, who looked at suicides among depressed patients

being treated by a health maintenance organization in Puget Sound.

Figures drawn from the early 1990s showed non-hospitalized depressed

patients committing suicide at a rate of 43 per one hundred thousand

patients. But patients not given drugs for their depression had a rate

of suicide of zero per one hundred thousands patients, reinforcing the

suggestion that mild depression could be in some way protective

(against suicide). "

Footnote: Weisman, MM. Beyond symptoms: social functioning and the new

antidepressants. Journal of Psychopharmacology 11 (1997), 4, S5 - S8.