>>My opinion is that the antidepressants have a suicide link because they give you your energy back

yea i agree. funny i thought this was "old news" especially regarding prozac, i've heard that for a long time. now that i'm in that cycle i can believe that even more... going from deep depression with no motivation and no energy to do or act on anything, if the meds help you to improve you may be a point where your "energy" starts to come back yet you are still very depressed.

It still is a good idea to be aware of this and make sure people are monitored carefully. especially i bet a lot of people without getting full knowledge of how they work from their doctors... i'm talking about people not realizing how long they take to be effective or expecting them to make them "happy" like an illicit drug or something. they may actually be improving slowly, but if they are not informed what to expect, they may not realize it is working and tend to feel even more hopeless because treatment "isn't working"

I just hate to see it go around as a "scare". Some people will take it that way under any circumstance but the media doesn't need to be feeding into hysteria. i'm talking in general not just about antidepressants. of course i'll have to go live on a different planet to see that.

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