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Over 201 million prescriptions were written for antidepressents in the US alone last year I'm getting really sick of this: Side effects of these drugs include: mania, insomnia, anxiety, agitation, confusion, amnesia, depression [one of my personal favorites for an antidepressant] , paranoid reaction, psychosis, hostility, delirium, hallucinations, abnormal thinking, depersonalization, and lack of emotion, among others. Two horrible ones being "homicidal ideation" and "suicidal ideation", which in layman's terms mean the drug puts the idea in your head that homicide and suicide are good ideas. There's accounts of these a little later. It's hard for me to find an exact number, but there are some stats. In 2005, 19.2 million prescriptions for Effexor were filled in the U.S. alone. With the population being about 300 million, that means that 6.5% of Americans were taking just this one prescription drug. Who knows how many more are taking Paxil, Prozac, Luvox, Zoloft, Lexapro, Wellbutrin, Budeprion, Zyba, Celexa, Desyrel, Cymbalta, and countless others. These are all every day names that you get used to hearing because of non-stop propaganda on the radio and TV. Actually I was upset by this information, so I did some more research. Covering those drugs and a couple others (15 total), in 2007 there were 201,955,000 prescriptions written. The population is roughly 301,000,000. There are people taking multiple of these drugs, but that is still a disturbing number. Don't believe me? The information is right here: http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Antidepressant#Most_commonly_prescribed_antidepressants So you may be wondering what happens when people suffer from the side effects of these drugs. Well the answers are right below. 1. A 12-year old murders his grandparents You're reading the words of 12-year-old Christopher Pittman, struggling to explain why he murdered his grandparents, who had provided the only love and stability in his turbulent life. He was angry with his grandfather, who had disciplined him earlier that day for hurting another student during a fight on the school bus. So later that night, he shot both of his grandparents in the head with a .410 shotgun as they slept and then burned down their South Carolina home, where he had lived with them. "I got up, got the gun, and I went upstairs and I pulled the trigger," he recalled. "Through the whole thing, it was like watching your favorite TV show. You know what is going to happen, but you can't do anything to stop it." His lawyers would later argue the boy had been a victim of "involuntary intoxication," since Pittman's doctors had him taking the antidepressants Paxil and Zoloft just prior to the murders. 2. A woman drowns all 5 of her children "What she described was feeling a presence ... Satan ... telling her to take a knife and stab her son Noah," Ringholz said, adding that Yates' delusion at the time of the bathtub murders was not only that she had to kill her children to save them, but that Satan had entered her and that she had to be executed in order to kill Satan. Yates had been taking the antidepressant Effexor. Aftermath:In November 2005, more than four years after Yates drowned her children, Effexor manufacturer Wyeth Pharmaceuticals quietly added "homicidal ideation" to the drug's list of "rare adverse events." The Medical Accountability Network, a private nonprofit focused on medical ethics issues, publicly criticized Wyeth, saying Effexor's "homicidal ideation" risk wasn't well-publicized and that Wyeth failed to send letters to doctors or issue warning labels announcing the change. And what exactly does "rare" mean in the phrase "rare adverse events"? The FDA defines it as occurring in less than one in 1,000 people. But since, according to an Associated Press report, about 19.2 million prescriptions for Effexor were filled in the U.S. alone in 2005, statistically that means thousands of Americans could experience "homicidal ideation" -- murderous thoughts -- as a result of taking just this one brand of antidepressant drug. 3. Columbine Luvox manufacturer Solvay Pharmaceuticals concedes that during short-term controlled clinical trials 4 percent of children and youth taking Luvox -- that's 1 in 25 -- developed mania, a dangerous and violence-prone mental derangement characterized by extreme excitement and delusion. 4. Virginia Tech The list goes on, it doesn't stop In 2007, 60-year-old Donald Schnell murdered his wife, daughter and granddaughter in a fit of rage just 48 HOURS after starting on Paxil Patrick Purdy's 1989 schoolyard shooting rampage in Stockton, Calif., was the catalyst for the legislative frenzy to ban "semiautomatic assault weapons" in California and the nation. The 25-year-old Purdy, who murdered five children and wounded 30, had been on Amitriptyline, an antidepressant, as well as the antipsychotic drug Thorazine. Kip Kinkel, 15, murdered his parents in 1998 and the next day went to his school, Thurston High in Springfield, Ore., and opened fire on his classmates, killing two and wounding 22 others. He had been prescribed both Prozac and Ritalin. In 1988, 31-year-old Laurie Dann went on a shooting rampage in a second-grade classroom in Winnetka, Ill., killing one child and wounding six. She had been taking the antidepressant Anafranil as well as Lithium, long used to treat mania. In Paducah, Ky., in late 1997, 14-year-old Michael Carneal, son of a prominent attorney, traveled to Heath High School and started shooting students in a prayer meeting taking place in the school's lobby, killing three and leaving another paralyzed. Carneal reportedly was on Ritalin. In 2005, 16-year-old Native American Jeff Weise, living on Minnesota's Red Lake Indian Reservation, shot and killed nine people and wounded five others before killing himself. Weise had been taking Prozac. In another famous case, 47-year-old Joseph T. Wesbecker, just a month after he began taking Prozac, shot 20 workers at Standard Gravure Corp. in Louisville, Ky., killing nine. Prozac-maker Eli Lilly later settled a lawsuit brought by survivors. Kurt Danysh, 18, shot his own father to death in 1996, a little more than two weeks after starting on Prozac. Danysh's description of own his mental-emotional state at the time of the murder sounded strikingly similar to that of 12-year-old Christopher Pittman, who had shot his grandparents while on psychiatric meds. "I didn't realize I did it until after it was done," Danysh said. "This might sound weird, but it felt like I had no control of what I was doing, like I was left there just holding a gun." Get the picture??? Now, I'm not going to claim that these people were perfectly normal by anyone's standards before taking these drugs, but they hadn't done any of those horrible things had they? These drugs are not helping, and the worst part is, a few people are getting rich off of it. 
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