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Classic Fries #37: Warning Labels
Submitted by ThePick on Sat, 09/22/2007 - 3:00am.
You've got The Pick, and here's the skinny:
We are back with Classic Fries! Every Saturday, we will pull something from The Museum and reprint it for those to enjoy! This gives those a chance who never got a chance to read it the first time a second chance, since the Museum itself is so large and its hard for anyone to decide where to begin.
This week, we head back to RJ-NET.BLOG to get something from The Pick! He rights a little bit about warning labels on prescriptions.
You've got The Pick, and here's the skinny:
Stuff like this makes me want to kill myself...
All antidepressants (search) must carry a "black box" warning, the government's strongest safety alert, linking the drugs to increased suicidal thoughts and behavior among children and teens taking them, the Food and Drug Administration said Friday.
The FDA has ordered that pharmacies across the nation label some of the most mainstream anti-depressants with warning labels indicating, ironically enough, that these drugs can be accompanied by and even induce suicidal thoughts and behavior in teens. In their infinite wisdom, the FDA has designated this problem such a threat that the warning on the bottles must be "black boxed" to indicate the highest degree of severity of these supposed symptoms. I'm sure you've all seen them; anyone that's had wisdom teeth pulled has seen that black-box-with-yellow-writing on their pain killers saying "May cause marked drowsiness. Do not operate heavy machinery." And so on.
At this point, I'm willing to let the ridiculous link between suicidal behavior and anti-depressants slide for a moment in favor for discussing the real problem: depression. Psychologists have made a notably more substantiated link between suicidal thoughts and behavior to depression. anti-depressants, as the level-headed would deduce, are used to fight these symptoms. However, just as a sore throat still persists when a Strep Throat victim is medicated, suicidal thoughts will not just up and vanish like a fart in a whirlwind the minute someone's medicated. To link suicidal behavior to anti-depressants is like saying firefighters may cause smoke and fire damage when they come to put out that blazing inferno you once called home.
It's this kind of rampant jackassery that makes me want to smack people. To think: we live in a nation who employs countless thousands of people to link symptoms of a disease with its medication. Good thinking, retards.
If I had a nickel every time I wanted to tell a government organization not to tread on me...
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The Reason
Having Been myself placed on Anti-depressants, for um, suicidal thoughts, I asked the prescribing doctor about that.
He told me the reason that Anti-depressants have a chance to cause suicidal behavior is because they make you less depressed. It's all psychological crap, a really depressed person isn't thinking about killing themselves, they don't care that much, they are so depressed that even the act of killing oneself seems like to much effort. Anti-depressants work gradually, not like you take it and the next day your freaking smiles and bliss, but more like you are a little less depressed every day, until you are all smiles and bliss (Not really, but you know what i mean). Its the stage between 'too depressed to care' and 'Smiles and bliss' where people are still depressed, but now not so badly that they don't care about it. This is where the increased rate of suicide comes in.
Crazy huh. Put some one on happy pills, and they kill themselves because they were getting happy.
Yup
Being a manic-depressive, I know this story all too well.
Basically, they don't have the energy to do anything. Build them up with the anti-depressants and they finally build up the energy to do it. That's why people who first go on them really need to be monitored.
Of course, most American insurance companies I have had won't let just depressed people get 24 hour treatment, you have had to attempted suicide.
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