Posted by stargazer on December 29, 2006, at 18:34:27
In reply to Re: A little more info-old topic-SSRIs and suicidal id, posted by blueberry1 on December 29, 2006, at 17:57:54
How may people died during SSRI trials because they were told that SI meant the depression was getting worse and to continue the AD they were on and to increase the dose?
This happened to me with either Zoloft or Effexor and my doctor kept telling me to hang in there and keep taking the med, but I said to myself, something did not feel right. I said I either quit the med or I will kill myself and I stopped the drug and the SI went away.
Coincidental, I don't think so but I essentially had to go against my pdoc's advice trusting my gut instinct that it was the med and I know to this day, it would have made me kill myself.
I'm sure we will never know the number of people who listened to their pdoc, believing that the AD would work and ended up killing themselves.
No way of knowing how many but treatment with many drugs can be worse than the disease itself. Chemo drugs can do the same thing.
Stargazer
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