Study says depression causes violence

[Guest guest]

I wonder again if this is depression or depression drug induced.....

If an elderly person is diagnosed with depression then they are invariably given

antidepressants.

Most psychiatric drugs cause constipation, it's the first thing I think when

someone is constipated. Most psychiatric drugs are used to chemically restrain

people and by default that can be against their will. Most psychiatric drugs can

cause what they are supposed to treat. Many elderly that have no one watching

out for them get heavily drugged just like foster children and of course it can

make them worse.

I have seen old statistics of the insane and the amount of violence was

neglible, this implies to me that the mentally ill are aggressive and mean

simply by being " mentally ill " . I have observed that the simple and deranged are

usually fairly calm if they are not agitated and forced around against their

will.

I wish I could find those old statistics on mentally ill violence.

http://tinyurl.com/rgaz2\

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Depression triples the likelihood that a nursing

home resident with dementia will be physically aggressive, a new study shows.

Delusions, hallucinations and constipation also appeared to be risk factors for

physical aggression in these patients, Dr. Ralph Leonard of CALM-MD, LLC, in St.

Louis Park, Minnesota and colleagues from Yale Medical School found.

About 7 percent of the 1.3 million people living in U.S. nursing homes become

physically aggressive each week, which can be traumatic for the residents and

the staff as well, the authors note. To investigate whether any potentially

treatable factors are associated with this behavior, Leonard and his team

studied 103,344 nursing home residents in five states. All of the subjects were

older than 60 years and had been diagnosed with dementia.

During the week before the data were collected, 6.9 percent had been physically

aggressive, while 10.5 percent had been verbally aggressive.

Residents with depressive symptoms were 3.3 times more likely to have been

physically aggressive, and those experiencing delusions had twice the risk of

aggression. Hallucinations increased the likelihood of physical aggression by 40

percent, while constipation was linked with a 30-percent increase risk.

The same factors were associated with verbal aggression, except for

constipation.

While several other studies have found an association between depression and

physical aggression among nursing home residents, no published study of

treatment for this behavior included an antidepressant, Leonard and his team

point out.

" Thus, the relative importance of depression as a potentially modifiable risk

factor may not be recognized, " they write in the ls of Internal Medicine.

It is not clear why constipation might increase the risk of aggressive behavior,

the researchers note. They suggest that residents may lash out defensively as a

reaction to the symptoms of constipation itself or to invasive treatments for

constipation, such as suppositories.

All of these factors may be treated or modified, and if intervention is

successful, it may reduce the risk of violence and harm by these nursing home

residents, the researchers conclude.

SOURCE: Archives of Internal Medicine, June 26, 2006.

[Guest guest]

I wonder again if this is depression or depression drug induced.....

If an elderly person is diagnosed with depression then they are invariably given

antidepressants.

Most psychiatric drugs cause constipation, it's the first thing I think when

someone is constipated. Most psychiatric drugs are used to chemically restrain

people and by default that can be against their will. Most psychiatric drugs can

cause what they are supposed to treat. Many elderly that have no one watching

out for them get heavily drugged just like foster children and of course it can

make them worse.

I have seen old statistics of the insane and the amount of violence was

neglible, this implies to me that the mentally ill are aggressive and mean

simply by being " mentally ill " . I have observed that the simple and deranged are

usually fairly calm if they are not agitated and forced around against their

will.

I wish I could find those old statistics on mentally ill violence.

http://tinyurl.com/rgaz2\

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Depression triples the likelihood that a nursing

home resident with dementia will be physically aggressive, a new study shows.

Delusions, hallucinations and constipation also appeared to be risk factors for

physical aggression in these patients, Dr. Ralph Leonard of CALM-MD, LLC, in St.

Louis Park, Minnesota and colleagues from Yale Medical School found.

About 7 percent of the 1.3 million people living in U.S. nursing homes become

physically aggressive each week, which can be traumatic for the residents and

the staff as well, the authors note. To investigate whether any potentially

treatable factors are associated with this behavior, Leonard and his team

studied 103,344 nursing home residents in five states. All of the subjects were

older than 60 years and had been diagnosed with dementia.

During the week before the data were collected, 6.9 percent had been physically

aggressive, while 10.5 percent had been verbally aggressive.

Residents with depressive symptoms were 3.3 times more likely to have been

physically aggressive, and those experiencing delusions had twice the risk of

aggression. Hallucinations increased the likelihood of physical aggression by 40

percent, while constipation was linked with a 30-percent increase risk.

The same factors were associated with verbal aggression, except for

constipation.

While several other studies have found an association between depression and

physical aggression among nursing home residents, no published study of

treatment for this behavior included an antidepressant, Leonard and his team

point out.

" Thus, the relative importance of depression as a potentially modifiable risk

factor may not be recognized, " they write in the ls of Internal Medicine.

It is not clear why constipation might increase the risk of aggressive behavior,

the researchers note. They suggest that residents may lash out defensively as a

reaction to the symptoms of constipation itself or to invasive treatments for

constipation, such as suppositories.

All of these factors may be treated or modified, and if intervention is

successful, it may reduce the risk of violence and harm by these nursing home

residents, the researchers conclude.

SOURCE: Archives of Internal Medicine, June 26, 2006.

[Guest guest]

I wonder again if this is depression or depression drug induced.....

If an elderly person is diagnosed with depression then they are invariably given

antidepressants.

Most psychiatric drugs cause constipation, it's the first thing I think when

someone is constipated. Most psychiatric drugs are used to chemically restrain

people and by default that can be against their will. Most psychiatric drugs can

cause what they are supposed to treat. Many elderly that have no one watching

out for them get heavily drugged just like foster children and of course it can

make them worse.

I have seen old statistics of the insane and the amount of violence was

neglible, this implies to me that the mentally ill are aggressive and mean

simply by being " mentally ill " . I have observed that the simple and deranged are

usually fairly calm if they are not agitated and forced around against their

will.

I wish I could find those old statistics on mentally ill violence.

http://tinyurl.com/rgaz2\

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Depression triples the likelihood that a nursing

home resident with dementia will be physically aggressive, a new study shows.

Delusions, hallucinations and constipation also appeared to be risk factors for

physical aggression in these patients, Dr. Ralph Leonard of CALM-MD, LLC, in St.

Louis Park, Minnesota and colleagues from Yale Medical School found.

About 7 percent of the 1.3 million people living in U.S. nursing homes become

physically aggressive each week, which can be traumatic for the residents and

the staff as well, the authors note. To investigate whether any potentially

treatable factors are associated with this behavior, Leonard and his team

studied 103,344 nursing home residents in five states. All of the subjects were

older than 60 years and had been diagnosed with dementia.

During the week before the data were collected, 6.9 percent had been physically

aggressive, while 10.5 percent had been verbally aggressive.

Residents with depressive symptoms were 3.3 times more likely to have been

physically aggressive, and those experiencing delusions had twice the risk of

aggression. Hallucinations increased the likelihood of physical aggression by 40

percent, while constipation was linked with a 30-percent increase risk.

The same factors were associated with verbal aggression, except for

constipation.

While several other studies have found an association between depression and

physical aggression among nursing home residents, no published study of

treatment for this behavior included an antidepressant, Leonard and his team

point out.

" Thus, the relative importance of depression as a potentially modifiable risk

factor may not be recognized, " they write in the ls of Internal Medicine.

It is not clear why constipation might increase the risk of aggressive behavior,

the researchers note. They suggest that residents may lash out defensively as a

reaction to the symptoms of constipation itself or to invasive treatments for

constipation, such as suppositories.

All of these factors may be treated or modified, and if intervention is

successful, it may reduce the risk of violence and harm by these nursing home

residents, the researchers conclude.

SOURCE: Archives of Internal Medicine, June 26, 2006.

[Guest guest]

I wonder again if this is depression or depression drug induced.....

If an elderly person is diagnosed with depression then they are invariably given

antidepressants.

Most psychiatric drugs cause constipation, it's the first thing I think when

someone is constipated. Most psychiatric drugs are used to chemically restrain

people and by default that can be against their will. Most psychiatric drugs can

cause what they are supposed to treat. Many elderly that have no one watching

out for them get heavily drugged just like foster children and of course it can

make them worse.

I have seen old statistics of the insane and the amount of violence was

neglible, this implies to me that the mentally ill are aggressive and mean

simply by being " mentally ill " . I have observed that the simple and deranged are

usually fairly calm if they are not agitated and forced around against their

will.

I wish I could find those old statistics on mentally ill violence.

http://tinyurl.com/rgaz2\

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Depression triples the likelihood that a nursing

home resident with dementia will be physically aggressive, a new study shows.

Delusions, hallucinations and constipation also appeared to be risk factors for

physical aggression in these patients, Dr. Ralph Leonard of CALM-MD, LLC, in St.

Louis Park, Minnesota and colleagues from Yale Medical School found.

About 7 percent of the 1.3 million people living in U.S. nursing homes become

physically aggressive each week, which can be traumatic for the residents and

the staff as well, the authors note. To investigate whether any potentially

treatable factors are associated with this behavior, Leonard and his team

studied 103,344 nursing home residents in five states. All of the subjects were

older than 60 years and had been diagnosed with dementia.

During the week before the data were collected, 6.9 percent had been physically

aggressive, while 10.5 percent had been verbally aggressive.

Residents with depressive symptoms were 3.3 times more likely to have been

physically aggressive, and those experiencing delusions had twice the risk of

aggression. Hallucinations increased the likelihood of physical aggression by 40

percent, while constipation was linked with a 30-percent increase risk.

The same factors were associated with verbal aggression, except for

constipation.

While several other studies have found an association between depression and

physical aggression among nursing home residents, no published study of

treatment for this behavior included an antidepressant, Leonard and his team

point out.

" Thus, the relative importance of depression as a potentially modifiable risk

factor may not be recognized, " they write in the ls of Internal Medicine.

It is not clear why constipation might increase the risk of aggressive behavior,

the researchers note. They suggest that residents may lash out defensively as a

reaction to the symptoms of constipation itself or to invasive treatments for

constipation, such as suppositories.

All of these factors may be treated or modified, and if intervention is

successful, it may reduce the risk of violence and harm by these nursing home

residents, the researchers conclude.

SOURCE: Archives of Internal Medicine, June 26, 2006.