Vital people are informed
When psychiatrists tell or advise their patients that they should take antidepressants, they may not be advising or telling their patients about the long list of effects that go hand-in-hand with their prescribing habit.
On that note, and since it is World Suicide Prevention Day today , it is appropriate
time to let people know that the list of effects for antidepressants includes suicidal thoughts and suicidal behaviour.
Putting a foreign substance such as a psychiatric drug into the body disrupts the normal biochemistry.
Sometimes, the disruption creates a false and temporary feeling of euphoria, short-lived bursts of increased energy or an abnormal sense of heightened alertness.
However, it ís not natural to feel like this; the feeling doesn’t last and addiction can result.
It is my contention that psychiatric drugs work by influencing the normal functions of the body: they speed them up, slow them down, dam them up or overwhelm them, this is why people get side effects with the drugs.
But don’t think these drugs heal anything.
I say, they are intended to cover up or mask problems. Meanwhile, they tend to wear out the body.
As well as the mental effects mentioned above, other side effects include anxiety, agitation, panic attacks, insomnia, nightmares, trembling, exhaustion, irritability hostility and aggressiveness.
It's vital that people are fully informed.
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