[tunap]

My worst nightmare is when a friend tells me how she wanted to kill her 2yo son and husband in terrifying detail. Despite her physician's assurances, she stopped taking the happy pills. They are all alive & well and the dark thoughts dissipated within a week of cessation. YMMV.

[jon-wood]

It sounds like there was more to that situation than simple depression, there are many conditions that can be made worse by inappropriately applying anti depressants. Unfortunately it seems your friend was in that situation, but it doesn't make the drugs universally bad.

[tunap]

Yeah, doc was calling it post-natal depression. Two years after birth. I suppose it's possible, I'm no physician. I posit perhaps it was was an ambitious, accomplished woman programmed since birth through culture & genetics to be a 'mommy' and was having trouble coming to terms with the daily realities while losing her independence, selling her business & having no time left for herself. No gruesome thoughts, just feeling over-whelmed. The doctor was throwing pills at the problem, IMO and that is when she began having the images. Again, I'm no doctor but I am a person who hallucinates on Doans & becomes a drooling, incoherent wreck if I take Coricidan or Dramamine. YMMV.