Discussion about this post

User's avatar
Kim Witczak's avatar

Until FDA and society is ready to investigate the link between antidepressants and suicide and violence. We will keep finding ourselves asking the question why?

I was intimately involved helping get blackbox suicide warnings on the drugs in 2004 and 2006 after the death of my husband. He was given Zoloft for insomnia and hung himself 5 weeks after given the drug. He was not depressed or have history of depression. The only medication on was Zoloft. We also had a lawsuit to get documents out from under seal. The FDA, Pfizer and other drug companies have long known about risk.

Did you know Pfizer helped create a Zoloft Prosecutor Manual in 1993 to be used in cases where someone claimed a Zoloft defense?

Who knew there was a 1991 fda hearings on the link between the emergence of suicide and violence on Prozac? The FDA did nothing and virtually all members of fda committee got funding from companies making these drugs.

Of the nearly 410 psychiatric drug warnings today, 27 warn of violence, aggression, hostility, mania, psychosis or homicidal ideation and 49 warn of self-harm or suicide/suicidal ideation.

Every time there is another mass shooting or high-profile murder/suicide, society keeps asking why and guns are often pinned as the culprit. It is high time that we seek to try understanding what may be behind these acts of violence in our communities. Could they be connected to the dangerous side effects associated with psychotropic drugs?

I am heartbroken for the families and fear for our society. We should all want to at least investigate because anyone of us could be the next sitting ducks.

Follow my work at kimwitczak.com or my substack at https://open.substack.com/pub/acceptablecollateraldamage?r=3awqq&utm_medium=ios

Expand full comment
Kayla Wildman's avatar

William Walsh and colleagues studied 50 school shooters and concluded that 42 fit a particular pattern of metabolic disorder and psychiatric drug history. The 42 were in Walsh's category of "low folate depressives", which Walsh also describes as "overmethylators." SSRIs can be helpful for undermethylators, but they make overmethylators worse. The pattern Walsh saw was that each of these 42 kids had become depressed, and had been taken to a doctor and put on an SSRI. The depression didn't improve, so the kid was taken back to the doctor, who raised the dose of the SSRI. And then the kid went berserk and shot up a school.

Walsh's book "Nutrient Power: Heal Your Biochemistry and Heal Your Brain" is excellent if you want to understand Walsh's decades-long research on metabolic/biochemical factors in mental illness and his protocols for correcting brain chemistry using individualized programs of nutritional supplements. Unfortunately, he doesn't describe his school shooter study in the book.. He discusses it briefly in a presentation titled "Advanced Nutrient Therapies for Brain Disorders" which you can find at this youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHT3iN_jJfc

Expand full comment
557 more comments...

No posts