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5 minutes ago, TexasHooch said:

It's like blaming Penicillin for contributing to death from Infection.

I've never been more disappointed in worms in my life.

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12 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

dumbest.fucking.timeline

It’s not just dumb. It’s dangerous. Heartless. Sadistic. 

I personally know people whose lives have been saved by SSRI treatment. These fucking jackals are going to get innocent people killed with a witch hunt that makes no sense. But they don’t care because as long as they’re blaming life-saving medication, they can distract from the real issues (the insane prevalence of guns in our society and the lack of social safety nets). Can’t have gun control, so it’s better to fire off an epidemic of suicide and depression.

And of course it won’t make a dent in mass shootings. But by the time the world figures that out, these maniacs will be scapegoating some other innocent group. 

 

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Posted
2 hours ago, TexasHooch said:

It's like blaming Penicillin for contributing to death from Infection.

Can we commission a study on the effects of heroin abuse on cognitive function?

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Posted
1 hour ago, hornmpa96 said:

So Zeus is RFK?

He's a conspiracy nut (Baltimore bridge, SSRIs) in the same vein as PRONGHORN (magnetic fields, sunspots). They both also happen to be racist homophobes. Turns out, PRONGHORN stopped posting after he was called out for saying he was attracted to underage girls in IPHB.

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Welp, throw our national public health apparatus on the ever-growing pile of "stuff that was the absolute envy of the world but we arbitrarily decided to give up because reasons".

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2 hours ago, BrickHorn said:

It’s not just dumb. It’s dangerous. Heartless. Sadistic. 

I personally know people whose lives have been saved by SSRI treatment. These fucking jackals are going to get innocent people killed with a witch hunt that makes no sense.

Yup.  My wife is one.  Clinically diagnosed with severe OCD (nope, not "ermagad I'm so OCD today", the real deal, with the horrible obsessive thoughts).  Had to go off antipsychotic drugs once she got pregnant with our daughter, and Prozac probably saved both their lives.  She's still on it to this day.  Less effective than the alternative but she's also not a zombie.

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8 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Yup.  My wife is one.  Clinically diagnosed with severe OCD (nope, not "ermagad I'm so OCD today", the real deal, with the horrible obsessive thoughts).  Had to go off antipsychotic drugs once she got pregnant with our daughter, and Prozac probably saved both their lives.  She's still on it to this day.  Less effective than the alternative but she's also not a zombie.

Similar diagnosis for me. Medication probably saved my marriage. 

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3 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Yup.  My wife is one.  Clinically diagnosed with severe OCD (nope, not "ermagad I'm so OCD today", the real deal, with the horrible obsessive thoughts).  Had to go off antipsychotic drugs once she got pregnant with our daughter, and Prozac probably saved both their lives.  She's still on it to this day.  Less effective than the alternative but she's also not a zombie.

Similar.  Pregnancy and its hormone storm literally made my wife batshit.  She realized halfway through here 2nd of 3 pregnancies that she needed help.  Doc put her on Zoloft, and it was life-changing.  She was on it during pregnancy, and for a period after to deal with post-partum issues.

The attacks on SSRIs as the cause of violent/suicidal action strikes me as one of the more absurd "correlation = causation" conclusions imaginable.  

Who is more likely to commit crazy acts of violence/suicide?  People suffering from depression and similar mental disorders.

Who is more likely to be on SSRIs?  People suffering from depression and similar mental disorders.

I would suspect that the percentage of people who commit acts consistent with mental illness would have disproportionately high numbers of actually mentally ill people (and thus people being treated for mental illness) within their ranks.

And again, CONTROLLING for that . . . . other countries have relatively high numbers of SSRI use, yet don't have anywhere near our level of mass shootings and the like.  If SSRIs were the cause, a country with, say, 50% the SSRI use rate as the US would have around 50% the "crazy acts of violence/mass shooting" rate that we have.  They don't.

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I think it's fair to say that some SSRIs *can* amplify suicidal ideation, but qualitatively I suspect that's pretty close to the "negative side effect" issue with vaccines.  The risk is way overwhelmed by the reward.

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Just now, jimmyjazz said:

I think it's fair to say that some SSRIs *can* amplify suicidal ideation, but qualitatively I suspect that's pretty close to the "negative side effect" issue with vaccines.  The risk is way overwhelmed by the reward.

Bingo.  An (unethical) experiment would be to compare the suicide/violence rates among diagnosed individuals while under SSRI treatment, and then when SSRI treatment is no longer allowed.

There may be an individual here and there who is MORE likely to be violent while on SSRIs.....which would almost certainly be countered (or more than countered) by the number of individuals who are LESS likely to be violent while on SSRIs.  Thus, all-in-all, proper SSRI use almost certainly REDUCES the overall rate of violence among mentally ill individuals.

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15 minutes ago, Satchel said:

Her constituents lit her ass up at a recent event in Maine.

Call me when they actually vote that worthless cunt out.

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