Originally Posted by
BoringGuy45
It's a false correlation. Tons and tons of people are on antidepressants and don't have increased violent tendencies. The correlation is that just about anyone who reported mental or behavioral problems gets put on antidepressants to start, because they have low dependence and side effects. But because antidepressants don't cure psychopathic tendencies, the issue isn't that the medication caused the behavior, it was that it didn't stop the behavior as it was never designed to do so.
You want to see veteran and first responder suicides go up? Tell them that if they go on medication or seek for depression and anxiety, not only will they lose their jobs, they'll lose their guns as well.
I believe if we drilled down into the nitty-gritty of folks who do this type of stuff while taking anti-depressants, there would probably be a correlation between folks using anti-depressants who aren't regularly seeing their doctor in order to monitor how they are doing.
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