Guest guest Posted December 14, 2007 Report Share Posted December 14, 2007 Sure. No more pensions, No job security, Health benefits are sketchy, College costs $100,000+, Mom and Dad are in their 80's and can't afford their 32 pills a day, gas costs $3.00 a gallon, their kids are in Iraq (STILL) they just got outsourced to a 22 year old in India, and on it goes. We have some major league problems these days. Depressing? You betcha. > > CDC: Suicides among middle-aged spikes - News > > > > > http://news./s/ap/20071214/ap_on_he_me/suicide_middle_aged > > > > > > ============================================================ > > News > > http://news./ > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ ______________ > Looking for last minute shopping deals? > Find them fast with Search. http://tools.search./newsearch/category.php?category=shopping > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 14, 2007 Report Share Posted December 14, 2007 SSRI prescriptions in all agre groups have been described as " skyrocketing " since the late eighties. We need a new term for it since the old one's worn out. Like " space rocketing " or " stratosphere rocketing " . Yes, it's statistically contributing to the suicide rate. Even the drug companies know this (from the numbers of people who off themselves in drug trials, which the pharma-funded studies conveniently manipulate out of study texts) and keep trying to spin it the other way- to use this stat as a reason for more people to take the drugs. If anyone can find this data, it would be interesting to take a look at suicide rates for- for example- young girls (traditionally low suicide rates) during, say, the Great Depression or annexed European countries during WWII and compare the rate for the same demographic today in the U.S. and other countries (like Australia) which heavily drug the young. Of course the demoralizing combination of social and economic conditions faced by people in their middle years coupled with the very inquisitorial environment generated by fake pharma " depression research " that patholizes all sense of outrage and activist anger at these circumstances as " brain chemical imbalance " (instead of describing it as righteous piss-off-edness, which would at least be validating, pharma spin causes friends and families to advise others to see shrinks and get drugs instead of just listening and supporting) causes a lot of the initial distress that drives people to accept prescriptions for psychotropic drugs. Maybe previous depression (or just short life experience as with children) contributes to some people lacking a baseline sense of reality when the drug-induced akathisia (the agitated state which produces violence/suicidality) sets in, though I don't know. It makes sense that if your cirumstances tell you you have a lot to be upset about and then you get curiously more upset after taking some drugs, you might just think it was more of the same self-generated negative feelings and would not figure out that it might be good to get OFF the drugs. But then again, psychosis reportedly sets in so rapidly with some people (the first few weeks of exposure) who take SSRIs- even those who took them for migraines or other non-depressive states- that they lose the faculty to distinguish what the drug is doing. Their doctors tell them that the anxiety is simply being " uncovered " by the drug (oh so helpful) and represents a " previously invisible mental disorder " which needs MORE drugs. Usually the " invisible disorder " which was helpfully " uncovered " is said to be bipolarity, which accounts for some of the rise in that disorder. Most doctors refuse to recognize the adverse events for what they are. Blinded by money and guilt, I suppose. > > I wonder how many of these unfortunate souls were > being treated with SSRI's at the time they killed > themselves... > > > > > > > > > CDC: Suicides among middle-aged spikes - News > > > > > http://news./s/ap/20071214/ap_on_he_me/suicide_middle_aged > > > > > > ============================================================ > > News > > http://news./ > > > > > > > > _____________________________________________________________________ _______________ > Looking for last minute shopping deals? > Find them fast with Search. http://tools.search./newsearch/category.php? category=shopping > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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