To counter the potential withdrawal effects, Jame was given Prozac, and the same personality and behavior problems were evident. The drug affected him the same way.
"I had never had these feelings before I took Effexor," Jame said, "I have never had these feelings since I stopped taking the Effexor and Prozac."
The way Jame sees it, "Effexor took three years from me and I will never get them back."
Donna Taylor's son, Mark, was shot between 7 to 13 times, at Columbine high school and nearly died.
Columbine shooter, Eric Harris, was on an SSRI at the time of the rampage, just like the majority of other kids who have been involved in senseless killings in recent years.
Mark Taylor points out that prior to the drastic increase in use of psychiatric on kids, "this has never happened in the history of America."
Shannon Baker does not complain about her daughter's side effects, adverse reactions, or withdrawal symptoms, because her daughter is no longer alive.
Sharon wants to be "the voice of all the other children who's voices have been silenced by these drugs," she said. She wants a ban on the use of SSRIs with children. "There needs to be no more senseless and needless deaths because of these drugs," she said.
Dawn Rider, president of ASPIRE, gave this warning, "We have been educated to believe that mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders are caused by chemical imbalances in the brain. The fact is that this is only theory, and this theory is pushed on us as if it were the absolute truth."
Many people who believe this theory have become guinea pigs, "I know this from personal experience," Dawn said, "I trusted our family doctor when he explained that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance. We trusted him when he determined that Paxil was right for my husband, and Prozac for my son."
Dawn's 14-year-old son is now dead, and when they "discovered the problems with these drugs, we decided it would be better for my husband to suffer through depression than end up dead like our son," she said, "and we found out that he could not get off of Paxil."
Her husband went through a year of hell before he was able to withdraw from the drug, and in the process, Dawn said, "it destroyed our marriage of over 20 years.
Sara Bostock's daughter, Cecily, had only been taking Paxil for two weeks when she died, during which time her condition had greatly worsened.
By the day of her death, Cecily was pale, unable to sleep, almost unable to converse, and was in a frightened, agitated state, jumping at the slightest noise.
"That night she got up and without turning on any lights, went into our kitchen only feet from where I was half asleep," Sara said, "She stabbed herself twice in the chest with a large chef's knife. The only noise was a slight yelp and a thump when she fell on the floor."
This was a young woman who had everything to live for. She had just completed applications for grad school and had received a large pay increase the month before. She had a boyfriend who loved her, scores of wonderful friends and had never been suicidal.
As the parent of someone who committed suicide within 7 weeks of begining to take an antidepressant, I would like to express my appreciation to Ms Pringle for her in-depth article about a problem so huge we have only begun to scratch the surface. In the decades to come antidepressants will be spoken of as the new holocaust. Our young people are being systematically put on these and other mind-altering drugs, like ADD/ADHD medications, and their minds and spirits are being forever broken and changed. We would love to attend the upcoming protest in DC, but finances will not allow that at this time. Our support and prayers are with those who will take our story with them to Capitol Hill and try to open the eyes of the FDA and congress so these drugs can be banned. It's the only way to stop the suicides and murders being committed by these kids. We trusted the doctors and drug companies to know "what was best" for our son and from the minute he took the first pill, he changed and was on a downhill slide into oblivion...this must stop.
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