by Gil Valo

Created on: December 09, 2009

Psychiatric Medications evolved into a multi-billion dollar industry. Since the eighteenth century psychiatrists have prescribed sugar pills to treat their patients. They tricked patients using positive thinking, and some got well, but there was no medical healing. Pharmaceutical companies developed more potent medications. Unfortunately, modern psychiatric medications are making patients suicidal and dangerous side effects are killing them. Suicidal thinking increases 4-2 with antidepressant patients in comparison with patients who have only taken placebos.

Psychiatric medication studies lack hard concrete proof that any of their marketing products cause people to commit suicide. However, there are documented cases of people who have committed suicide or at least attempted it while under the influence of a drug.

Individuals react differently to various brand name drugs. A drug that harms one person may not badly effect somebody else. Several factors are evaluated. What is the patient treated for? How is the patient monitored? Several factors are carefully considered before making a professional psychiatric prognosis

Key changes in patient behavior can alert family and friends. Does the patient make personal death threats and reveal death wishes? Does the patient look depressed? Is he worsening? Does the patient feel anxiety? Does the patient look agitated and restless? Does the patient have panic attacks? Does the patient suffer from insomnia? Does the patient exhibit angry and violent behavior? Does the patient obey his dangerous impulses? Does patient activity and speech patterns seem over stimulated?

Manic depressive disorder increases suicidal thinking. Psychologists treat their patient’s depression with antidepressants. Unfortunately, some patients have attempted suicide because of taking them. Psychiatrists learn about the patient’s historical background. Bipolar (manic depressive illness) patients are in more jeopardy. Bipolar family history is a strong example of a red flag. A patient’s family member could have attempted suicide. Family physicians look for those kind of facts to help them protect their patients.

Does antidepressant benefits outweigh the risks of taking them? A child or teenager treated with an antidepressant is monitored closely during therapy. Mood swing patterns are considered. Does the patient seem obsessed with death? All family members, close friends, and teachers need to keep a careful eye on the person being

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