Posted by Larry Hoover on February 10, 2009, at 10:16:57
In reply to Good grief...NOT a pro ssri video, posted by West on February 9, 2009, at 12:10:11
Good grief is absolutely an appropriate response to this video. It is not in accord with reality. There are so many distortions, exaggerations and outright falsehoods presented, I don't know where to begin.
I've thoroughly analysed Ann Tracy's work, and she is not a reliable source. She selects only evidence that suits her agenda, and when such evidence does not exist, she invents it.
For example, her comments about maternal filicide rates....that we've only seen this phenomenon since the advent of SSRIs....pure hokum. Pure unadulterated hokum. Compared to 100 years ago, or fifty years ago, maternal filicide rates are down. There has been no recent upswing in rates which would correlate with the large number of antidepressant treatments offered mothers for post-partum depression or psychosis. Individual cases are tragic, but they are anecdotal. Complex events with multiple variables. It's simply easiest to blame drugs. Unfortunately for these fear-mongers, there is no pattern.
In a study of factors thought to predict for filicide in the U.S., in males the most likely is prior military service (55%). In females, use of alcohol (27%), apart from a diagnosis of depression (70%) or psychosis (30%). I found no evidence to correlate use of medication with this type of tragedy. And notwithstanding what Tracy claims, 70% of maternal filicides involved firearms. And 90% thought they were doing their kids a favour.
Don't even get me started about the myths Tracy invoked about LSD.
Lar
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