Posted by simon levane on February 13, 2006, at 20:50:02
In reply to Re: Suicide on Effexor, posted by Devastated Mother on February 13, 2006, at 5:25:09
There is a website of a parent who lost his son to suicide, and he is very very active in trying to help prevent this from happening to others. I don't have the link here but will send it to you and post it here tomorrow..
Perhaps you may find a way to help others through this link. In our country there is an active survivor's advocacy group that contributes to educational material as well as actively lobbying in different ways to raise awareness. When I see all the available material that was there before my daughter's death and realize that all of her medical caregivers truly failed to educate us in the risks, it makes me sick.. That is the primary way to help prevent this from happening to others. To raise awareness and education. It is needed in the school system, among all General Practictioners and Psychiatrists as well, -- they are especially complacent as I see it. My daughter saw no less than 7 different pychiatrists and I myself met with most of them as well as seeing two myself, and not one of them truly educated me or my daughter's mother in the reality of risk nor in the risk of the specific drugs. GP's in walk in clinics are sometimes just too easy to prescribe drugs to patients without asking the patient to give a reference of a previous physician before they give them tranquillizers or other psychotropic drugs without knowing the real medical history. This verges on criminal negligence but is hard to prove. Sloppy life threatening medical incompetence. That needs to be stopped by having clear guidelines for medical care.
Simon,
> You have been experiencing this longer than I have. Any ideas on the most effective way to attempt to change this systemically? I think it may take some political lobbying, but I am not really sure where to start. I really would not want to see this happen to anyone else.
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> Anyone else have ideas?
> -DM
poster:simon levane
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