All I know is that during those episodes I genuinely had no control over my behaviour. It is like being possessed. Therefore, accountability becomes a much more dubious area if someone genuinely could not have controlled what they were doing. The brain is much more fragile than we realise- you only have to look at people with dementia or brain damage to realise that, and I found out the hard way that my mind which I had thought was so individual to me was nothing more than a collection of neurons, and I saw how you can actually have no control in certain scenarios...it's a scary prospect and I can see why people don't want to swallow it. No one feels safe in this world as it is, but they tend to get a sense of safety through believing that they can always control their own mind. Those who have had my experience on medication know that that control is actually easily smashed to pieces. I presume those who have been brainwashed realise a similar thing. Funnily enough, realising that 'safety' and 'control' can be taken away from you in ways beyond what most people ever experience, is a key element of post traumatic stress which I also suffer from. Most people think their personality is indestructible, and I learnt the hard way that it's a very shaky construct.

I'm not sure whether people are more on the bipolar scale if they react like this. that parts still up for debate. It depends who you ask.Many, possibly most people who reacted like I did probably would get a diagnosis of bipolar, but my psychiatrist believes ssris can induce the mania because he has encountered people who this is true for. in my instance, there is a strong possibility I have bipolar or something on that spectrum, and that I inherited it from my father. I had psychotic features on the medication, but I ordinarily have no psychotic issues whatsoever. I also had self injury issues- and I never ordinarily have that, so the meds can cause someone who normally just gets 'hypomanic' to get seriously manic, and it is normally a mixed episode too which is worse.

Many people who commit these crimes whilst taking ssris could actually have bipolar and not know about it.Most people who have bipolar type 11 don't know that they have it, and they never ask you about it when they give you the ssri medication. I think that reactions to ssris is one of the main ways peopel get diagnosed with bipolar.I suppose they go by timings of taking the medication and past character profile whilst discerning culpability in the court room. I acted so different than I had acted before I took them that if I hadn't been in a domestic abuse situation and blamed for it, it would have been obvious to anyone around me, and they would have put me in a hospital.

It is interesting to see the acknowledgement this phenomenon is getting in the press and the courts. Thankyou for posting it xxx