Reply #9: possibly-these powerful drugs can cause profound changes in thought patterns

[fed-up]

if you read any list of side effects most include, aggitation, restlessness, dulling of emotions etc

Having recently started then stopped a misprescibed antidepressant for what was finally diagnosed as bipolar I went into the deepest darkest pit of suicidal thinking, not just passing thoughts that life was too tough to handle, but really thinking that if I went to sleep and never woke up all would be fine. I even started trying to calculate just how much of what of my meds would do the trick.

I have never, ever in all my lifetimes history of on/off depression/ hypomania felt that bad

These drugs are very powerful and affect everybody differently! Just look at the warnings they are finally starting to add.

THe thoughts occurred while I was taking it, also had similar thoughts after starting Lamictal, but stopped that due to getting a swollen painful lymph node on the 9th day. Turns out that when taking an anti-convulsant they should have asked if there was a family hypersensitivity to the drug as it is genetic. But the physicians assistant decided the lymph node was a flu, despite the fact that two days after stopping the drug the swelling went down.



Yes, they may help some/many people, but at what price to the innocent victims of these repeated mass senseless killings.

The pharmeceutical companies have tons of money to keep the problems under wraps.