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If you are one of the millions of people in the U.S. who have considered putting your children on antidepressants, there’s something you have to see before you make a decision: youtube’s compilation of video clips on the relationship between suicides, homicides, and antidepressants. If you know of anyone taking these drugs, I would get them into a medical drug detox center as soon as possible so they can get off them safely.

While the warnings put out by drug companies say that suicide and homicide are risks largely for children and adolescents, at least one website, ironically called healthyplace.com, points out that “individuals mature at different rates. Young adults are more likely to commit suicide than older adults, so a young adult should be particularly closely monitored if he or she takes an SSRI antidepressant.”

Closely monitored? I’ll say. Unless they’re watched 24 hours a day you could be in the next youtube video talking about your son saying “I don’t like the way this drug makes me feel” four days before he kills himself. What happens if your kid is off to college or no longer living at home when he feels that way? Are you even going to hear him say that? Not likely.

And what is the significance of people maturing at different rates? How mature do you have to be to take these drugs? Mature enough to resist the urge to kill yourself? Lots of adults have killed themselves. Weren’t they ‘mature’?

The only safe thing to do is get people off these drugs through medical drug detox – no matter how old they are, and no matter where they live. Unfortunately, getting off antidepressants can be just as dangerous as taking them. In fact, some people kill themselves when they try to stop taking them - which is one reason why you need to get off them through medically supervised drug detox.

Do everything you can to stop people from taking these drugs, and get off them yourself, but do it through medical drug detox program so they, or you, are guaranteed safe passage.

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