Prozac: self-mutilation has become epidemic in the United Kingdom and the example they give involves a young woman, Sharon Lawson, who became ill at age 16 when she was placed on Prozac: her story is in my next email

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> StopTheInsanity

> Tue, 27 Jul 2004 22:06:34 -0400

 

> [sSRI-Research] Prozac: self-mutilation has

> become " epidemic " in the United Kingdom and the

> example they give involves a young woman, Sharon

> Lawson, who became ill at age 16 when she was placed

> on Prozac: her story is in my next email

>

> Prozac: self-mutilation has become " epidemic " in the

> United Kingdom and the example they give involves a

> young woman, Sharon Lawson, who became ill at age 16

> when she was placed on Prozac: her story is in my

> next email

>

>

> Paragraphs 5, 8 and 9 state: " They have been

> compiled for the first time amid concern over an

> escalation in the number of youngsters self-harming

> with cuts, burns or mutilation in attempts to

> relieve mental pain. New guidelines for the

> treatment of self harm are expected to be released

> by NICE tomorrow. They come in the wake of the

> publication of the scathing findings of an

> independent review into the case of Sarah Lawson, a

> 22-year-old suicidal and self-harming woman who was

> helped to die by her father " .

>

> In the Boston Globe on 12/30/2000 {by Anne Barnard},

> referring to the new Prozac -type antidepressant

> being developed, it states: " The patent application

> states that the new version reduces side effects of

> the old version, including ''intense, violent

> suicidal thoughts and self-mutilation'' and a form

> of anxiety called akathisia " .

>

> Our group has received many, many calls from people

> who began to self-mutilate on the SSRIs and SNRIs.

> It is a National Tragedy.

>

> www.drugawareness.org

>

>

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> Self harm becoming 'epidemic'

> 09:23am 27th July 2004 The problem of people

> deliberately harming themselves is reaching

> " epidemic " proportions in Britain, it is reported

> today.

>

> New figures reveal more than 170,000 people a year

> seek hospital treatment after self-harm, according

> to The Independent.

>

> Most of them are teenagers and young adults, the

> newspaper says.

>

> These figures are being released by the Government's

> drugs and treatment assessment body, the National

> Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE).

>

> New guidelines

>

> They have been compiled for the first time amid

> concern over an escalation in the number of

> youngsters self-harming with cuts, burns or

> mutilation in attempts to relieve mental pain.

>

> The true number could be much higher, experts warn,

> as many do not go to hospital for treatment.

>

> Experts looking into years of life lost due to

> various conditions, found self-harm and suicide were

> third to heart disease and cancer, the newspaper

> said.

>

> New guidelines for the treatment of self harm are

> expected to be released by NICE tomorrow.

>

> They come in the wake of the publication of the

> scathing findings of an independent review into the

> case of Sarah Lawson, a 22-year-old suicidal and

> self-harming woman who was helped to die by her

> father.

>

> It found she was " failed " by mental health experts

> assigned to her case.

>

> Marjorie Wallace, chief executive of mental health

> charity Sane, told The Independent: " This really has

> become an epidemic and the way in which people who

> self-harm are treated is a national scandal.

>

> " These are people who are pushed to the bottom of

> the treatment queue, made to feel it is their own

> fault and denied any real understanding of their

> condition. "

>

 

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