Re: Drugs taken by shooter

[Guest guest]

Does anyone know the name of the antidepressant that was being taken by the

guy who shot the students

at Va Tech? Thanks, Mal

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[Guest guest]

Apparently, he was on 60mg of Prozac. Go figure! And, according to this CBS

News article at:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/26/national/main683321.shtml

it says that he had recently had his dose increased. Anyhow, that's one more

reason to ban SSRIs.

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malibu805@... wrote: Does anyone know the

name of the antidepressant that was being taken by the

guy who shot the students

at Va Tech? Thanks, Mal

************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

[Guest guest]

A few years ago I was assualted by an intruder in my home when I came

home from work. I was almost killed by a crazy man. I had to escape

from a 2 story window by jumping out so I would not be killed.

After the incident, I was very tore up and for good reason. I was put

antidepressants. All I thought about there after was hurting myself.

Of course the doctors blamed it on the incident. I thought I was

really crazy and lost my mind. I was on this crap for years because

I was told I had PTSD. I felt lkie crap the whole time I was on this

crap. When I saw on TV it made young kids commit sucide, I went off

of the crap. After going through some very heavy withdrawals, I

became normal. I no longer think weird thoughts. I can honestly say

prozac and paxil took away some of the best years of my life and made

me crazy. What happened to me was a horrible thing but I would had

been OK in time. In fact, after I came off of the antidepresants, I

FINIALLY went through the greiving process that by nature I am

suppose to do. There are reasons why we have emotions, masking them

with an antidepressant does not do anyone any good! Believe me, I

lived it in the most horrid way. Yes, SSRI's should be banned!

Does anyone

know the name of the antidepressant that was being taken by the

> guy who shot the students

> at Va Tech? Thanks, Mal

>

> ************************************** See what's free at

http://www.aol.com.

>

>

[Guest guest]

....and they work at least partially for some people... just another opinion.

There are serious problems for the industry in terms of how they are promoted

and used, but for some patients they are helpful.

~Haley

jackiebreeze <jackiebreeze@...> wrote: A

few years ago I was assualted by an intruder in my home when I came

home from work. I was almost killed by a crazy man. I had to escape

from a 2 story window by jumping out so I would not be killed.

After the incident, I was very tore up and for good reason. I was put

antidepressants. All I thought about there after was hurting myself.

Of course the doctors blamed it on the incident. I thought I was

really crazy and lost my mind. I was on this crap for years because

I was told I had PTSD. I felt lkie crap the whole time I was on this

crap. When I saw on TV it made young kids commit sucide, I went off

of the crap. After going through some very heavy withdrawals, I

became normal. I no longer think weird thoughts. I can honestly say

prozac and paxil took away some of the best years of my life and made

me crazy. What happened to me was a horrible thing but I would had

been OK in time. In fact, after I came off of the antidepresants, I

FINIALLY went through the greiving process that by nature I am

suppose to do. There are reasons why we have emotions, masking them

with an antidepressant does not do anyone any good! Believe me, I

lived it in the most horrid way. Yes, SSRI's should be banned!

Does anyone

know the name of the antidepressant that was being taken by the

> guy who shot the students

> at Va Tech? Thanks, Mal

>

> ************************************** See what's free at

http://www.aol.com.

>

>

[Guest guest]

I THOUGHT they were working for me. One side of me felt very happy

and the other side was crazy. One thing, I had an " I don't care "

attitude. On one side this can be a good thing but the flip side, it

is not so good because some things we need to care about. I feel

doctors REALLY need to keep a close eye on any patient who they

prescribe these to. My personality changed in some odd ways and a

good doctor would had noticed this. I thought it was the incident

that made me as like so but I saw big time after going off of SSRI's

that I came back to normal. I know many many people who had like

experences with SSRI's. One girl that I know spent 8 years off and

on in a mental hospital and was dignosed as bi-polar. She went off

all of her medications, which is a major no no in the psyc field.

She went through major withdrawals. Now she is no longer bi-polar

and has not seen a mental hospital since going of of the stuff. She

says she never felt so normal. I know many who benefited 100% by

going off of the stuff.

There are other antidepressants that do not have such side affects.

SSRI's are banned in other countries.

Maybe some people can benefit from the drug, but it can't be no more

than a hand full of people with a problem that REALLY is organic.

The folks I know who quit them are so much better off now. All of

them suffered a life trama and they should had received counseling

without the drugs.

I am sure the SSRI's have a place in the medical field but I feel

they are WAY over prescribed.

Does anyone

> know the name of the antidepressant that was being taken by the

> > guy who shot the students

> > at Va Tech? Thanks, Mal

> >

> > ************************************** See what's free at

> http://www.aol.com.

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

I can tell you this much. the effects of stachy myco exposure on the

cns and zoloft dont mix well at all. to many doctors like to throw

antidepressants at you without first finding the cause of your anxity

and depression. god help you if you have any prior events before your

mold exposure that a doctor can blame your anixity and depression on

because they won't look any further than that. and it doesn't matter

what you tell them because they rarely listen to you anyway. Does anyone

> know the name of the antidepressant that was being taken by the

> > guy who shot the students

> > at Va Tech? Thanks, Mal

> >

> > ************************************** See what's free at

> http://www.aol.com.

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

My husband was rushed to the hosptial seveal years back because he

passed out at work. Once before that he had a grand mal seizure.

After staying in the hospital they gave him zoloft I believe and

Lipitor and my husband started to hallucinate. Really bad, I never

saw anything like it. It went on for an entire weekend and finally he

could realize something was wrong and stopped taking the pills.

--- In , " who " <jeaninem660@...>

wrote:

>

> I can tell you this much. the effects of stachy myco exposure on

the

> cns and zoloft dont mix well at all. to many doctors like to throw

> antidepressants at you without first finding the cause of your

anxity

> and depression. god help you if you have any prior events before

your

> mold exposure that a doctor can blame your anixity and depression

on

> because they won't look any further than that. and it doesn't

matter

> what you tell them because they rarely listen to you anyway.

[Guest guest]

I think antidepressants are one of the worst medicines to take on

the market and way over Rxed and not appropriately Rxed too.

They 'stick' in your body and change so many of your system, making

your body so abnormal. I suffered from insomnia due to stress but

doctors kept wanting to give me antidepressants but they ALWAYS made

me worse and one time I was given one, I believe Zoloft, and I

literally <paced the floor and wrang my hands> I was sooo uptight on

it. I can see someone flipping out on these drugs. I think MAIN

problem is that doctors are not good as determining what is REALLY

inappropriate depression and what is normal depression that one

needs to deal with naturally and most importantly what is STRESS.

An antidepressants makes STRESS much much WORSE, so if someone is

under tremendous stress being given an antidepressants can literally

put them over the edge. I think antidepressants are MUCH more

dangerous than sedatives and yet sedatives are controlled substances

so doctors are hesitant to Rxed them and antidepressants are not and

doctors write Rxs for these medicines like they are perfectly

benign, which they definately are NOT. If shooter was on

antidepressants, I would not be surprised that they may have

contributed greatly to magnifying size of crime.

>

> A few years ago I was assualted by an intruder in my home when I

[Guest guest]

Yes so true, they always tell me that the PTSD, which I is healed now

is to blame for my health problems. After being taken off of

antidepressants, I was able to face my problems head on and deal with

them. The problem with antidepressants they mask emotions that we

need to deal with real life pain. I was assualted in 92 but it was

not until 03 that I went off of the antidepressants. It took me

about a year of mental trama but I got OK. the physical problems are

still here. I know my immune has always been weak even before the 92

incident..but most doctors don't want to look past the incident..they

gotta have something to blame when they can't help a person. I had

one doctor who said he knew I was ill and even admitted that he did

not know what to do..that doctor above all had my up-most respect. I

was sad when he moved out of the area.

Does anyone

> > know the name of the antidepressant that was being taken by the

> > > guy who shot the students

> > > at Va Tech? Thanks, Mal

> > >

> > > ************************************** See what's free at

> > http://www.aol.com.

> > >

> > >

[Guest guest]

>

> " I think antidepressants are one of the worst medicines to take on

> the market and way over Rxed and not appropriately Rxed too. "

>

From personal experience, I disagree. If it wasn't for my taking

antidepressants in the last 15 years, I would not have had the full

and active life I had. Not to mention, those around me were suffering

also.

[Guest guest]

I would bet you this young man who massacred 32 people, had gotten off

his medication. And this is quite common actually. And when you do

that, you will sink right back down into your deep depression as you

had been previously.