[doubled112]

Acutane? I remember having a conversation with my doctor as a teenager about it, and even he wasn't sure about cause and effect.

Does the medication cause depression? Or was the person already depressed due to having acne so bad it needed medical treatment? Either direction seems reasonable to me.

That said, he was careful to who he handed it out to, and we decided against it.

[seizethegdgap]

Accutane can cause severe depression and suicidal thoughts, but not for everyone. It should definitely be a near-last resort when dealing with severe or cystic acne.

That being said, the before/after pictures that get posted in the accutane subreddit are mind blowing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Accutane/comments/hslnet/_/

[micromacrofoot]

yeah the big deal at the time was the 15 year old that tried to pull a mini 9/11, his mom sued the manufacturer of Acutane (later dropped) and it spooked a bunch of parents

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Tampa_Cessna_172_crash?wp...