Robert F. Kennedy: It Looks Like Almost Every Mass Shooter Is On SSRI Drugs and NIH will not study that because it will offend the pharmaceutical industry.”

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[–]Alphix 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I have always been non-violent. One time I go to my doc because of EXHAUSTION (and NOT depression!) but he prescribes me an SSRI and tells me to take half a dose.

Within a half hour I became utterly bloodthirsty, I wanted to see people bleed and die, I wanted to see streets run with the blood of innocents. I was actually quite terrified that I would act out on these impulses, but eventually they subsided and I never took those pills from hell again. I came SO CLOSE to becoming a murderer.

This is of course a n=1 anecdote, but still... It's gotta be worth SOMETHING in the court of saidit-opinion?

[–]Zapped 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

SSRI's are sometimes given for physical pain. It was an option for me when I had a herniated disk in my neck because the pain wouldn't allow me to sleep. I fought through it until the Meloxicam kicked in.