Reply #30: Beg to differ.

[Blaze Diem]

It happened to me. Until I know the whole story as to why he stopped taking the meds and what it was he was prescribed I will be suspicious of some drs. who are too eager to prescribe based on positive promo from the Pharma salesmen. All is true as to stopping meds and repercussions. Maybe the meds themselves made him feel 'un-normal" so he stopped.
It isn't as black & white as one may think when a person is dealing with a change in their brain function.
Clearly this was out of character for the young man. Something happened to cause the sudden violent behavior.
As in the case of the Omaha Mall shooter, he had stopped his meds because he was cut from the State insurance when he truned 19. He worked at McDonalds, and on that simple wage, his meds were most likely more costly than he could afford. Which opens a new topic.
(Can no longer site a link to this reference however.) sorry.

I've heard many times that a person taking anti-depressants (SSRIs specifically), remark that they make them feel disconnected from what they once held dear. Depersonalization, I believe it is called. Their family members say the same thing about the person who was once engaged wholeheartedly in the family.
UK had suicide warnings on antidep labels long before the same pharma maker was mandated to label the same drug sole in the USA.
In my research after a bizarr episode of Zoloft, I found that the Pharma did a 6 week study before presenting to the FDA for approval. Six weeks may be long enough for a patient to say 'yes I feel better', but hardly long enough to monitor side effects such as those some people cannot tolerate, based on their brain chemistry.

Its not all black & white.
Been there also.
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