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BMJ: Antidepressant increase the likihood of suicide and homicide

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Antidepressants increase the risk of suicide, violence and homicide at all ages

“All patients being treated with antidepressants for any indication should be monitored appropriately and observed closely for clinical worsening, suicidality, and unusual changes in behavior, especially during the initial few months of a course of drug therapy, or at times of dose changes, either increases or decreases. The following symptoms, anxiety, agitation, panic attacks, insomnia, irritability, hostility, aggressiveness, impulsivity, akathisia (psychomotor restlessness), hypomania, and mania, have been reported in adult and pediatric patients being treated with antidepressants” (1)  READ MORE….

see also www.SSRIStories.net (lists of suicides and homicides)

CAUSE: Pharmacogenetics