Thom Hartmann: The Role of Psychiatric Drugs in Mass Shootings

[thomhartmann]

Dr. Peter Breggin, MD / Medication Madness: The Role of Psychiatric Drugs in
Cases of Violence, Suicide and Crime.

The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann on RT TV & FSTV "live" 9pm and 11pm check www.thomhartmann.com/tv for local listings

[Link Speed]

1. No offense, but I wish there was some sort of encapsulation

There is just no way that I am going to sit thru 4 minutes of video.

It's Happy Hour in Wine Country, no time for audio.

[Warpy]

2. I worked with a woman who was talked into suddenly stopping her Prozac

by her idiot husband. After she skipped two doses, she came in to work, shaken, because she said she'd almost run over him on the way out.

We were only disappointed that she'd missed.

A call to the pharmacy got her a dose of it and she was fine.

Stopping that stuff suddenly doesn't work. When I missed a dose, I'd bottom out my blood pressure. Other people fly into rages. More oversight needs to happen with people on SSRI drugs, just handing them over without sufficient warnings doesn't work.

[sabrina 1]

3. There is so little available for people with mental illnesses. That is a

huge problem in this country. We have a person in our family who is mentally ill and capable of violence. To try to find help for him was heartbreaking, for his family especially. They live in constant fear that he will do something that will harm himself and/or others.

This country needs to stop spending money on destructive wars and start focusing on the problems we have right here at home.

A good start would be to begin to build a system to help the mentally ill, to fund research to try to find cures for people who no more want to be ill than anyone else.

Our priorities regarding the safety of Americans are so off track it is mind-boggling.

[DebJ]

4. Obama did get a major brain research project started this year.

I am hoping. Son has bipolar.

[DebJ]

5. My son was placed on a series of SSRI's fifteen years ago...

too many different ones to even count. Each made him severely manic.

I went online to a website for the parents of bipolar children, and found out that
SSRI's often have this impact on BP patients. That website was a godsend, with
so many parents reporting their children's reactions to various meds and also many
parents posting new research. I took that info to my sons p-doc and we stopped
using SSRI's.

Sad thing is, there really isn't any other medicine to treat OCD at this point,
and that is one of my son's biggest issues.