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In Reply to: Is it safe? posted by Daniel on February 17, 2006 at 01:21:40:
With symptom monitoring, disease management training, and therapy, it is quite safe.
Have you ever taken an SSRI? I have taken one since the early 1990s. Prior to that, I took a medication from the older generation of anti-depressants. (I have not taken psychotropics continuously, however. I go off the medications periodically for a number of reasons.)
I would definitely go off my SSRI if it caused me to have suicidal thoughts. That would be because it wasn't working, and I would encourage anyone whose medication doesn't work to quit taking it. The fact is, the SSRI I currently take has dramatically REDUCED my suicidal thoughts and fantansies of death. It has completely eliminated my homicidal thoughts.
Maybe my anecdotal evidence doesn't fit your little paradigm of suicide by neurotransmitter regulation? It appears you think all of the research on the subject of SSRIs is biased and can't be trusted because it has been conducted or paid for by the pharmaceutical companies. Wrong.
Like I said, people with untreated brain diseases (like Rick appears to have had) commit suicide and/or homicide at a much higher frequency than people who take SSRIs. That's not Lily research, btw, that's public health research by epidemiologists with no stake in the pharmaceutical industry and every reason to give a rat's ass about reducing the occurrence of suicide in the general population. But I'm sure you know that because you've done research that has looked at all sides of this controversy.
Oops, sorry, building a world view from diverse and conflicting sources of information probably doesn't fit your paranoid paradigm where powerful international drug companies and the Great Whore maintain a conspiracy of mind control through the widespread use of SSRIs.
But don't worry your pristine noggin about the rigors of critical analysis. I take an SSRI, so you can disregard what I have to say as little more than the rant of a brain-washed serantonin zombie. But wait! It gets even worse--I plan to get one of those new-fangled microchip implants as soon as my health insurance will pay for it.
