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Her autopsy revealed a high blood level of Paxil, which reflects poor metabolization, a feature common in many SSRI suicide cases. "I believe this induced an intensely dissociative state, perhaps even sleepwalking," Sara said.

"From accounts of people under the influence of these drugs," she explained, "I believe SSRIs can alter consciousness in some mysterious and frightening way that is not normally seen even in mental illness. I am certain this is what happened to my daughter."

"Untold thousands have died because of the drug companies and the FDA's failure to heed the evidence over the past years," Sara has discovered.

Cynthia Brockman's described the Zoloft-induced reactions that her son, Chris, had experienced which ultimately resulted in a woman's death and a life sentence in prison for her son. She urges a ban on all SSRI use in children.

Chris described "uncontrollable fits of anger, pitches and voices setting him off, not wanting to be touched, feeling horrible all over his body, not being in reality." His reactions stopped, once he was off all SSRIs for about a year, but restarted when he was put on Zoloft again.

"Prison doctors ignored warnings, forced him to take harmful drugs, drugging him into hallucinating, irrational, suicidal state," Cynthia said.

She finally met with the Texas House Committee on Corrections who ordered prison doctors to correct the crisis caused by the drugs which had triggered severe suicidal and homicidal symptoms for about 2 years while doctors kept starting and stopping her son's medications.

"Medical experts said Chris would not have been suicidal or homicidal had he not been reacting to SSRI drugs," Cynthia said.

Todd and Eileen Shivak's son Michael was 11 when he was given Paxil for depression. They thank God he is alive after he tried to slash his wrists in a classroom at school.

"We thought we were doing the right thing," his parents explain, "the doctors convinced us that taking these drugs was the only thing that we could do for Michael."

"How could all the doctors not recognize what was happening?" Todd asks, "Michael saw three different social workers, two different psychiatrists, and went through at least four
different emergency room psychological evaluations in two different hospitals."

"It is impossible to describe the pain and utter helplessness we all felt watching Michael suffer, watch him cry, take up weapons against us, and beg us to let him die," Todd said.

"Our daughter, Catherine, was 5 years old at the time," he noted, "She witnessed firsthand some of the most terrifying sights that I have ever had to deal with."

"Our family is finally getting back to the loving family we once were, but the fear of what happened still haunts us," he added.

Pepper Draper, a Director of the International Coalition for Drug Awareness, reports that her child was put on Ritalin, and says, "we bought into the whole serotonin theory, so we were naturally raising that serotonin, which unfortunately started causing him to become severely depressed and suicidal."

Fortunately, "we were able to finally understand the truth about serotonin, that raising serotonin and stopping the metabolism of it has caused suicide and aggression, and that is well documented," she said.

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