Teen Idolized Columbine killers

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Originally Posted by rbeau30

Nowadays we give the seriously mentally ill a bunch of pills, and leave it up to the seriously ill person to make sure he/she takes them.

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As a pharmacist I can not argue. The SSRI's (Zoloft, Paxil, etc) were touted early on so effective that general MD's could prescribe. There was a lot of education put out for providers to help them identify their patients who might need an SSRI. What was seriously missing was pallative care that is provided by mental health professionals.

I also find it amazing whole generations of children were raised w/o ADD/ADHD meds.

But we all really know it was the evil black rifle wispering into his ear.

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Originally Posted by rbeau30

Nowadays we give the seriously mentally ill a bunch of pills, and leave it up to the seriously ill person to make sure he/she takes them.

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I feel as though a lot of the shit given to kids is poison and completely fucks with their head. It's insane that these drugs like Ritalin are used to control unwanted behavior; God forbid that we work with their excitement or distraction; nope, lets just drug them so we can make the problem go away...at least until they snap and go off the deep end.

And if these folks suddenly stop taking these meds then what happens? I am no medical professional, but if someone is taking something long term, I am sure there are rammifications of the sudden loss of this chemical in the body that has been coarsing through the veins for so long.

This is what happens when you over-medicate and only preach that we're all equal and get medals. When you don't learn what it's like to put in effort and succeed, you don't get to find that motivation to make something for yourself. The feeling when you lose sucks and it teaches you to try harder so you can win. When you never have a loser, you'll never have a winner either.

Fucking around with neurochemistry is a BAD idea. In many cases, the developers have no idea what the actual mechanism is, just the observed results, and if the side effects are acceptable in their studies, the FDA gives them a green light. It just astounds me when a TV commercial says "Snapadrine™ is thought to work by..." [Shock] . Seriously, who takes a drug that nobody can tell them HOW it works, or WHAT the long term effects might be?