Posted by blueberry1 on January 13, 2007, at 18:33:17
In reply to med depression, posted by Sebastian on January 13, 2007, at 15:46:37
Many antidepressant or mood elevating drugs can induce or worsen depression. I have had it happen too many times that I am now scared to try anything new.
On the label with psychiatric drugs it warns of the risk of suicidal tendencies when starting a drug or increasing the dose. I think that risk is underestimated. Many suicides occured while the patient was on a medication. But then it is brushed off and blamed on the depression where the medication wasn't working, where maybe in fact the medication was at fault for making it worse. The problem I think is that the patient is so accustomed to being so depressed that when the drug is actually making it worse it is subtle and hard to tell from the original depression. It gets worse and it gets out of hand and is brushed off as side effects. Then the patient is dead or in the hospital and it's too late.
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