Scientists May Have Uncovered Why Antidepressants Cause Suicidal Behavior

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Scientists May Have Uncovered Why Antidepressants Cause Suicidal Behavior

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For years, antidepressant drugs have been connected with an increased

suicide risk and aggressive behavior - and researchers may have just

unknowingly uncovered the reason. A new study has just found that

antidepressants are

actually decreasing the amount of serotonin in many patients' brains,

instead of increasing it as they are meant to. Serotonin is a feel good brain

chemical that's thought to be lacking in depression patients, and depression

drugs are meant to function by increasing serotonin levels. However,

according to Columbia University's Dr. Rene Hen who led the study, in about

half

of the population " the more antidepressants try to increase serotonin

production, the less serotonin (these people) actually produce. " So, for half of

the population, these drugs would actually be making the condition worse.

 

 

This is a conundrum for the makers of antidepressants and the doctors

prescribing them; the effects of lowered serotonin levels aren't pretty,

particularly on people with already low levels. According to researchers,

" lower

serotonin function and impulsive/aggressive traits are associated with

suicidal acts, including completed suicide. " Autopsies of suicide victims have

also found lowered levels of serotonin in the frontal cortex region of the

brain, compared to those who died of other causes.

 

 

After years of antidepressants being associated with increased suicide

risks and aggressive behavior, we may finally know why. Now, it'd be

interesting to learn if the drugs were having this " opposite effect " on all of

people who have killed themselves and others while on the drugs. Perhaps, they

were having this " opposite effect " on Eric Harris before he was inspired to

shoot his classmates at Columbine. It's likely that a lot of people with

missing loved ones would like these answers too.

 

 

Aside from speaking loudly about the dangers of antidepressants - the most

widely prescribed drugs in the nation - this should tell you something

else pretty clearly too. Doctors and drug companies who call themselves

authorities on health often have no idea what their drugs are doing to the

people

who take them.

 

 

You'd think at some point during the years of " gold standard " clinical

trails the fact that these drugs were having the exact opposite effect as

intended on half of the people taking them would have come out. This really

points to some pretty glaring deficiencies in the gold standard and all those

connected with the process. It should also be a wake up call to anyone

taking any pharmaceutical drug that you're simply a guinea pig of the

chemical-driven drug companies - no matter what drug you're taking.

 

 

In 2008, 164 million prescriptions were written for antidepressant drugs.

 

 

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