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Years ago I went to a doctor because my depression and anxiety got really bad. She perscribed me Luvox. Within weeks, I had bad side effects that scared the crap out of me and I immediately went off of them. She also gave me a 5 minute questionaire test with really vauge questions. And that was it. Although meds help some people greatly, there's still something wrong here. Why are we giving meds to people who have depression, but then might cause them suicidal thoughts? I did research on this and many articles attempt to explain this but I never have really found specific scientific reasons in detail, it's always very vauge explainations that haven't really made any sense to me (if you have found actually evidence going into detail about this, please let me know!)
Doctors are prescribing too many medications like candy, instead of recommending other things first, especially with people who have depression. Diet, exercise, sunlight, and hobbies can help so much. We live in a Prozac Nation. A woman wrote a book about this and it was then made into a movie. With all the science and research nowadays, you would think that they would come up with better meds that don't have these scary side effects.
This is a good post that raised a question more people need to ask. I've often wondered such myself. I truly believe that some of the shooters involved in mass shootings are/were whacked out on drugs, and the drugs clouded their judgment to a point where it pushed them over the edge, pushed them to do something most sane and rational people would call crazy and by extension criminal. Of course, guns get directly blamed in such circumstances, and nothing hardly is done to address the real root of the problem.