Re: EMU student's death a sad shock to many - thanks for sharing

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Dear , Our prayers are with you all. Thank you for sharing so we can have the opportuity to take it to the Lord with you. My father died just before Easter too and the comfort of what Jesus did for us makes this time even with this news a time of joy. Happy Easter. Janet -- EMU student's death a sad shock to many EMU student's death a sad shock to many Mother with mental illness charged in shooting Tuesday, April 11, 2006 http://tinyurl.com/pgwf4 Radtke had finally found her niche in life. Her path to that point wasn't always clear as she took classes at Eastern Michigan University over the last six years. At first, she thought she would be a teacher, but friends and professors say she found her true passion two years ago when she switched to the urban planning program. Living with a roommate in an apartment in Ypsilanti, the 23-year-old looked forward to graduation day at EMU this month and the promise of a full-time job at the University of Michigan. Her friends at school described her as vibrant, happy and passionate. But as Radtke's future came together, police and family members say her mother's life was unraveling in . Sharon Radtke, 56, had lost her job as a legal secretary in February and was having trouble making ends meet. With the job went her health insurance and ability to afford medication for depression that had been prescribed for her a few years earlier. Sharon Radtke spoke increasingly in the last few weeks of her fear that the family would be homeless soon and terrible things would happen to her pretty, young daughter, according to Bonita , Sharon Radtke's mother and 's grandmother. The two very different worlds of the mother and daughter collided last Friday night, police say, when Radtke went home to visit and do her laundry. Before the night was over, Radtke was dead and Sharon Radtke was charged with shooting her only child in the head as she slept. The crime has many searching for answers to explain the unthinkable. Sharon Radtke was arraigned over the weekend on a first-degree murder charge in her daughter's death. [...] said her daughter suffered from depression and had taken medication until her insurance ran out, and she couldn't afford the $200 a month for the pills, said. One of ICARD/EMU's Students. A very sad and personal tragedy here at Eastern Michigan University. 's funeral was today. Trouble in Prozac Nation DeGrandpre The Nation January 5, 2004 http://tinyurl.com/n6ctm http://www.thenation.com/doc/20040105/degrandpre Instead of at least warning physicians of a risk of drug-induced agitation, SSRI makers continue to insist that the violence linked to SSRI use is the product of the "illness" the drug is said to treat. New York Times Article Echoes ABUSE YOUR ILLUSIONS Report: SSRI Antidepressant Use Resulting in Violence, Suicide May 2003 http://tinyurl.com/lskj4 Beyond eliciting unwanted physical and withdrawal symptoms, Degrandpre argues that SSRI’s most dangerous side effects are the feelings of rage and violence suffered by its users, often resulting in the suicides of patients and murders of patients’ family. Suicidality, violence and mania caused by selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs): A review and analysis The International Journal of Risk and Safety in Medicine Issue: Volume 16, Number 1 / 2004 http://tinyurl.com/nppa9 Evidence from many sources confirms that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) commonly cause or exacerbate a wide range of abnormal mental and behavioral conditions. These adverse drug reactions include the following overlapping clinical phenomena: a stimulant profile that ranges from mild agitation to manic psychoses, agitated depression, obsessive preoccupations that are alien or uncharacteristic of the individual, and akathisia. Each of these reactions can worsen the individual's mental condition and can result in suicidality, violence, and other forms of extreme abnormal behavior. http://tinyurl.com/r5msa SSRIs Called on Carpet Over Violence Claims Psychiatric News October 5, 2001 Volume 36 Number 19 Jim ck http://tinyurl.com/sysob A flurry of recent legal activity has reignited the controversy surrounding antidepressants’ ability to cause aggressive or violent behavior. Among the cases is an Australian one in which an SSRI is blamed for a man’s fatal attack on his wife. Shooting fuels debate over safety of Prozac for teens March 25, 2005 http://tinyurl.com/njudn Family members of Jeff Weise say they have questions about the medication he was taking up until the day of the shootings in Red Lake. Authorities say Weise shot and killed nine people before turning the gun on himself. Weise was taking the antidepressant Prozac. The shootings are likely to renew the controversy over the use of antidepressants in children and adolescents. They told him they took Jeff to get help for problems he was having with police and at school. They say his treatment included the antidepressant Prozac. "Actually, they had just recently upped his dosage. He was taking

two pills a night, they upped it to three. We think that was too much for

him, too much medication for him," they said.

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What happened to Radke was a tragedy, at her own mother's hand. It would be intersesting to find out what medications her mother was on prior to her losing her job and ability to pay for these medications. There are some anti-depressant medications, including SSRI's which one cannot wean themselves off of easily, without encountering adverse side- effects. Aasajim <jgmbooks@...> wrote: Dear , Our prayers are with you all. Thank you for sharing so we can have the opportuity to take it to

the Lord with you. My father died just before Easter too and the comfort of what Jesus did for us makes this time even with this news a time of joy. Happy Easter. Janet -- EMU student's death a sad shock to many EMU student's death a sad shock to many Mother with mental illness charged in shooting Tuesday, April 11, 2006 http://tinyurl.com/pgwf4 Radtke had finally found her niche in life. Her path to that point wasn't always clear as she took classes at Eastern Michigan University over the last six years. At first, she thought she would be a teacher, but friends and professors say she found her true passion two years ago when she switched to the urban planning program. Living with a roommate in an apartment in Ypsilanti, the 23-year-old looked forward to graduation day at EMU this month and the promise of a full-time job at the University of Michigan. Her friends at school described her as vibrant, happy and passionate. But as Radtke's future came together, police and family members say her mother's life was unraveling in . Sharon Radtke, 56, had lost her job as a legal secretary in February and was having trouble making ends meet. With the job went her health insurance and ability to afford medication for depression that had been prescribed for her a few years earlier. Sharon Radtke spoke increasingly in the last few weeks of her fear that the family would be homeless soon and terrible things would happen to her pretty, young daughter, according to Bonita , Sharon Radtke's mother and 's grandmother. The two very different worlds of the mother and daughter collided last Friday night, police say, when Radtke went home to visit and do her laundry. Before the night was over, Radtke was dead and Sharon Radtke was charged with shooting her only child in the head as she slept. The crime has many searching for answers to explain the unthinkable. Sharon Radtke was arraigned over the weekend on a first-degree murder charge in her daughter's death. [...] said her daughter suffered from depression and had taken medication until her insurance ran out, and she couldn't afford the $200 a month for the pills, said. One of ICARD/EMU's Students. A very sad and personal tragedy here at Eastern Michigan University. 's funeral was today. Trouble in Prozac Nation DeGrandpre The Nation January 5, 2004 http://tinyurl.com/n6ctm http://www.thenation.com/doc/20040105/degrandpre Instead of at least warning physicians of a risk of drug-induced agitation, SSRI makers continue to insist that the violence linked to SSRI use is the product of the "illness" the drug is said to treat. New York Times Article Echoes ABUSE YOUR ILLUSIONS Report: SSRI Antidepressant Use Resulting in Violence, Suicide May 2003 http://tinyurl.com/lskj4 Beyond eliciting unwanted physical and withdrawal symptoms, Degrandpre argues that SSRI’s most dangerous side effects are the feelings of rage and violence suffered by its users, often resulting in the suicides of patients and murders of patients’ family. Suicidality,

violence and mania caused by selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs): A review and analysis The International Journal of Risk and Safety in Medicine Issue: Volume 16, Number 1 / 2004 http://tinyurl.com/nppa9 Evidence from many sources confirms that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) commonly cause or exacerbate a wide range of abnormal mental and behavioral conditions. These adverse drug reactions include the following overlapping clinical phenomena: a stimulant profile that ranges from mild agitation to manic psychoses, agitated depression, obsessive preoccupations that are alien or uncharacteristic of the individual, and akathisia. Each of these reactions can worsen the individual's mental condition and can result in suicidality, violence, and other forms

of extreme abnormal behavior. http://tinyurl.com/r5msa SSRIs Called on Carpet Over Violence Claims Psychiatric News October 5, 2001 Volume 36 Number 19 Jim ck http://tinyurl.com/sysob A flurry of recent legal activity has reignited the controversy surrounding antidepressants’ ability to cause aggressive or violent behavior. Among the cases is an Australian one in which an SSRI is blamed for a man’s fatal attack on his wife. Shooting fuels debate over safety of Prozac for teens March 25, 2005 http://tinyurl.com/njudn Family members of Jeff Weise say they have questions about the

medication he was taking up until the day of the shootings in Red Lake. Authorities say Weise shot and killed nine people before turning the gun on himself. Weise was taking the antidepressant Prozac. The shootings are likely to renew the controversy over the use of antidepressants in children and adolescents. They told him they took Jeff to get help for problems he was having with police and at school. They say his treatment included the antidepressant Prozac. "Actually, they had just recently upped his dosage. He was taking two pills a night, they upped it to three. We think that was too much for him, too much medication for him," they said.