Comment Evil antidepressants? (Score 1) 656
So antidepressants are evil, overprescribed, and unnecessary?
My father though the same way. He has bipolar disorder (also known as manic depression). Before he went on lithium and prozac, home was a living Hell.
My ex-roommate's parents were against antidepressants too. She ended up on prozac after three suicide attempts.
Not every mental illness responds well to drugs. If you put someone with bipolar disorder on prozac, they can end up manic.
If Harris and Kleibold really were mentally ill, maybe we should blame them and take their illness into account, instead of blaming their meds.
Sorry if this sounds angry, but it seems that antidepressants are always condemned by people who have neer been affected by clinical depression.