The Depressing Side of Anti-Depressants

I have to admit, I’m not a big fan of lawyers. There are so many rules and regulations in health care. Every day it seems like I’m filling out more forms, trying to track down family members to sign releases, and telling people we have to take ridiculous measures to make sure the lawyers don’t come after us.

Yet when I read about what some pharmaceutical drugs do to people, I completely change my tune.

“Sue, Baby Sue”

As I learn more about the evils of anti-depressants, I am astonished we still hand these out to people. Especially since there is so much evidence accumulating that a lot of mental illnesses can be fixed with diet.

Consider some of these lawsuits:

Donald Schell, aged 60, took Paxil for only 48 hours before killing his family and himself. For the very first time, a jury found a pharma firm liable for deaths caused by antidepressant use.

Kurt Danysh, who had no history of violence and was inappropriately prescribed Prozac, shot and killed his own father after 17 days of taking the drug. In 1996, Kurt was convicted of murder.

But then, in 2004, it was exposed that Eli Lilly hid data that Prozac can cause violent behavior. After 24 years of hard work, Kurt was finally released from prison.

Kim Witczak had a wrongful death, failure to warn lawsuit against Pfizer after her husband killed himself after taking Zoloft for 5 weeks. After filing the lawsuit, Pfizer sent investigators out to snoop into Kim’s private life. They even talked to her neighbors.

In Canada, a judge ruled that Prozac led to the murder of a teen at the hands of his 16-year-old friend.

Apparently school shooters are very often on anti-depressants:

Even if you don’t become homicidal or suicidal, once you’re on the anti-depressants for any length of time, it becomes very difficult to wean yourself off of them. That means many people are on them for their whole life.

Not to mention the side effects.

And yet..

• Almost 1/4 of all women over age 60 in America are on them

• 1 in 8 adults over 18 have taken some in the last 30 days (13.2%)

• Antidepressant prescribing to young people increased by 64% during the Pandemic

Pretty depressing (pun intended) statistics. Interesting that the less education you have, the less antidepressants you need:

Our quick-fix culture seems like it’s on a path to destruction. Good health, both mental and physical, takes work. Just like earning money. You can think of antidepressants the same as ‘Get rich quick’ schemes.

Put in the work. Don’t fall for the scam.