| Suicides | Antidepressants | 2008-01-23 | Indiana | Mother & Daughter Commit Suicide Together |
| Death | Zoloft | 1994-03-10 | Colorado | Mother & Daughter Die:Both Used Zoloft: Either Suicide or Confusion During Bad Weather |
| Child Abandonment | Med for Depression | 2004-02-10 | Texas | Mother Abandons Child in National Forest: Tries to Kill Self |
| Violence | Antidepressant Withdrawal | 2003-10-10 | Wales | Mother Attacks Son |
| Murder Attempt | Med For Depression | 1994-10-04 | New York | Mother Attemps to Set her 6 Year Old Daughter on Fire |
| Murder Attempt | Med For Depression | 2007-04-10 | California | Mother Attempts To Drown her 2 Children: One Day Withdrawal |
| Murder Attempt | Antidepressant | 2003-01-24 | Maine | Mother Attempts to Drown Her Two Children |
| Murder Attempt | Antidepressant | 2006-12-29 | Washington | Mother Attempts to Kill 10 Year Old Daughter & Self |
| Murder Attempt | Med For Depression | 1994-04-25 | New York | Mother Attempts to Kill 13 Year Old Daughter |
| Murder-Suicide Attempt | Antidepressants | 2000-12-07 | Florida | Mother Attempts to Kill 2 Children & Self |
| Murder Attempt-Suicide Attempt | Prozac | 2002-11-08 | Maine | Mother Attempts to Kill 7 Year Old Son & Herself |
| Murder-Suicide Attempt | Lexapro | 2006-02-24 | Pennsylvania | Mother Attempts to Kill Children and Self |
| Murder Attempt-Suicide Attempt | Zoloft | 2005-08-03 | Indiana | Mother Attempts to Kill Daughter & Self |
| Murder Attempt | Antidepressants* | 2004-01-23 | Ohio | Mother Attempts to Kill her Two Children |
| Murder Attempt & Arson | Med For Depression | 2009-07-08 | Michigan | Mother Attempts to Kill her Two Children & Self: Also Sets House on Fire |
| Murder Attempt | Med For Depression | 2008-12-02 | Michigan | Mother Attempts to Kill her Two Children & Set House on Fire |
| Murder Attempt/Arson | Med For Depression | 2009-05-13 | Michigan | Mother Attempts to Kill her Two Children: Then Sets the House on Fire |
| Murder Attempt – Suicide Attempt | Med For Depression | 1992-12-31 | Connecticut | Mother Attempts to Kill her Two Little Girls: Attempts Suicide |
| Murder Attempt-Suicide Attempt | Antidepressants | 2005-06-06 | New York | Mother Attempts to Kill Two Kids & Self |
| Murder Attempt | Prozac | 1998-04-10 | California | Mother Attempts to Murder her Two Young Daughters |
| Battery | Med For Depression | 2007-04-07 | Illinois | Mother Attempts to Overmedicate Son |
| Murder Attempt | Med For Depression | 2008-06-02 | New York | Mother Attempts to Suffocate her 7 Month Old Daughter |
| Murder Threat | Med For Depression | 2007-09-04 | Australia | Mother Attempts to Throw 5 Year Old Daughter from Bridge |
| Murder-Suicide | Med For Depression | 2007-07-30 | India | Mother Burns Three Children & Self to Death |
| Murder-Suicide | Med For Depression | 1995-11-08 | Wisconsin | Mother Burns to Death her Two Children & Herself |
| Suicide | SSRIs | 2008-11-08 | California | Mother Campaigns with Stop Foundation After Suicide of Son |
| Murder | Antidepressants | 2009-06-24 | North Dakota | Mother Charged with Killing her Newborn Infant |
| Suicide | Med for Depression | 2006-05-14 | Minnesota | Mother Commits Suicide After Hallucinating |
| Death | Antidepressant Withdrawal | 2007-09-23 | England | Mother Dies of Neurological Disorder Probably Caused by Having Antidepressant Stopped |
| Murder-Suicide | Antidepressants | 2000-03-18 | Illinois | Mother Drives her Two Children & Self into Lake |
| Murder | Med for Depression | 2006-08-19 | Canada | Mother Drowns 8 Year Old Son: Arraigned in Vermont |
| Murder | Med for Depression | 2002-04-13 | Ohio | Mother Drowns Her 3 Year Old Twins |
| Murder | Antidepressant | 2007-10-19 | Australia | Mother Drowns her 5 Year Old Son |
| Murder | Paxil | 2007-12-28 | California | Mother Drowns her 7 Month Old Daughter |
| Murder | Med For Depression | 2007-10-02 | Ohio | Mother Drowns Her Two Young Daughters |
| Child Endangerment | Paxil | 2006-09-14 | Ohio | Mother Drugs her Children |
| Murder-Suicide Attempt | Antidepressant | 2000-05-04 | Arkansas | Mother Executed for Killing her Two Children |
| Child Endangerment | Antidepressant | 2009-01-16 | California | Mother Gives Her 5 Year Old Daughter Brownies Laced with Marijuana |
| Aggravated Child Abuse | Med For Depression | 2008-06-05 | Florida | Mother Hits Son With Flat Part of Sword |
| Felony | Antidepressants | 2009-07-21 | Canada | Mother Illegally Sells Oxycodone in Front of Teenaged Son: No Previous Criminal Record |
| Stabbing | Med for Depression | 2006-12-01 | Connecticut | Mother Injures her Three Children |
| Murder-Suicide | Zoloft | 1998-10-02 | Utah | Mother Kills 12 Year Old Daughter & Self |
| Murder | Antidepressant | 2004-08-01 | Australia | Mother Kills 15 Year Old Daughter |
| Murder | Prozac Withdrawal | 2000-02-03 | Texas | Mother Kills 15 Year Old Daughter: Wounds Son 13 |
| Murder-Suicide | Med for Depression | 2005-03-24 | Pennsylvania | Mother Kills 2 of her Children: Commits Suicide: Recent Withdrawal |
| Murder-Suicide | Paxil | 2005-05-11 | Colorado | Mother Kills 2 Sons & Self |
| Murder | Antidepressant Withdrawal | 2006-04-22 | Michigan | Mother Kills 23 Year Old Daughter |
| Murder-Suicide | Antidepressant | 2000-07-13 | Iowa | Mother Kills 3 Children & Self |
| Murder | Med For Depression | 2009-02-07 | Connecticut | Mother Kills 3 Month Old Daughter: Possible Withdrawal Case |
| Murder | Med For Depression | 1994-04-29 | Ohio | Mother Kills 3 Year Old Son |
| Murder | Med for Depression | 1992-10-30 | California | Mother Kills 4 Year Old Daughter: Also Involved Alcohol |
| Murder | Antidepressants | 2005-02-15 | Australia | Mother Kills 4 Year Old Son |
| Murder | Antidepressant | 2005-04-14 | Michigan | Mother Kills 4 Year Old Son |
| Murder/Suicide Attempt | Antidepressant {Elavil} | 2006-03-03 | Illinois | Mother Kills 6 Year Old |
| Murder-Suicide | Paxil | 2005-02-26 | New Hampshire | Mother Kills 6 Year Old Daughter & Self |
| Murder-Suicide Attempt | Antidepressants | 2005-03-04 | Oklahoma | Mother Kills 6 Year Old Son: Attempts Suicide |
| Murder | Antidepressant Withdrawal | 2007-09-24 | Virginia | Mother Kills 6 Year Old Son: Featured on Oprah Winfrey Show: Possible Withdrawal Case |
| Murder | Bipolar Meds | 2007-02-08 | Nevada | Mother Kills 7 Year Old Daughter: Injures 8 Year Old Son |
| Murder | Prozac | 2006-11-15 | New York | Mother Kills 9 Year Old Son: Then Leaps in Front of Train: Survives |
| Murder; Suicide Attempt | Effexor | 2005-12-14 | Oregon | Mother Kills Baby Daughter; Stabs Self |
| Murder | Prozac Withdrawal | 2009-07-21 | Maryland | Mother Kills Child: Went Off Prozac 6 Weeks Earlier Because Prozac Was Making Her Suicidal |
| Murder | Antidepressant | 2007-01-24 | Massachusetts | Mother Kills Daughter in 1990: Seeks Parole in 2007 |
| Murder-Suicide Attempt | Med for Depression | 2005-02-08 | New Jersey | Mother Kills Daughter: Then Attempts Suicide |
| Murder | Antidepressants | 2008-05-29 | Ohio | Mother Kills her 11 Month Old Daughter |
| Murder | Antidepressants | 2009-07-22 | England | Mother Kills her 2 Year Old: Denies Charge: Trial in Progress |
| Murder-Suicide | Prozac Withdrawal | 1991-11-17 | Utah | Mother Kills her 3 Children & Herself in Two-Week Withdrawal |
| Murder-Suicide | Celexa | 2007-10-30 | Utah | Mother Kills her 3 Children & Self |
| Murder | Antidepressant | 2004-10-30 | California | Mother Kills her 4 Year Old Daughter |
| Murder | Paxil | 2004-03-10 | Florida | Mother Kills her 4 Year Old Twin Sons |
| Murder | Antidepressants | 2009-03-03 | Belgium | Mother Kills Her 5 Children: Recent Withdrawal: Happened Jan 2nd, 2007 |
| Murder | Med For Depression | 2007-11-06 | Australia | Mother Kills her 6 Month Old Baby |
| Murder | Med For Depression | 2008-11-14 | North Carolina | Mother Kills her 7 Month Old Child |
| Murder | Med for Depression | 2000-11-22 | North Carolina | Mother Kills her 8 Year Old Son |
| Murder-Suicide | Celexa | 2008-12-19 | England | Mother Kills Her Disabled Son & Herself |
| Murder-Suicide | Antidepressants | 2008-08-01 | England | Mother Kills her Five Old Year Son and Herself |
| Murder-Suicide | Med For Depression | 1994-11-04 | Florida | Mother Kills her Three Children & Herself |
| Murder & Arson | Celexa Withdrawal | 1999-05-14 | Texas | Mother Kills her Two Children |
| Murder | Antidepressants | 2005-07-20 | Indiana | Mother Kills her Two Children |
| Murder | Prozac | 1990-05-05 | Virginia | Mother Kills her Two Children |
| Murder | Zoloft | 2008-05-22 | Australia | Mother Kills Her Two Children |
| Murder-Suicide | Prozac | 1997-09-07 | Vermont | Mother Kills her Two Children & Self |
| Murder-Suicide | Zoloft | 2007-08-27 | Texas | Mother Kills her Two Children, Husband & Self |
| Murder-Suicide Attempted | Med For Depression | 2007-08-01 | Massachusetts | Mother Kills her Two Children: Attempts Suicide |
| Murder-Suicide Attempt | Med for Depression | 2003-09-25 | Nevada | Mother Kills her Two Children: Attempts Suicide |
| Murder | Prozac | 2003-01-05 | Massachusetts | Mother Kills her Two Children: Attempts Suicide: Also Involved 2nd Antidepressant, Desyrel |
| Murder-Suicide | Prozac | 1991-10-14 | California | Mother Kills her Two Daughters & Herself |
| Murder-Suicide | Prozac | 1995-10-21 | Indiana | Mother Kills her Two Sons & Self |
| Murder-Suicide | Lexapro | 2007-01-23 | Arizona | Mother Kills her Two Year Old & Herself |
| Murder-Suicide Attempted | Antidepressants | 1994-01-12 | Minnesota | Mother Kills Her Two Year Old Daughter: Then Attempts to Kill Self |
| Murder | Effexor | 2004-02-27 | Pennsylvania | Mother Kills her Two Young Children |
| Murder | Antidepressants | 2009-01-08 | Georgia | Mother Kills Her Two Young Children |
| Murder | Med For Depression | 2009-04-07 | England | Mother Kills her Two Young Children |
| Murder | Antidepressants | 2009-03-09 | Belgium | Mother Kills Her Two Young Children: Attempts Suicide: Happened in 2008 |
| Murder | Celexa | 2007-12-11 | Washington | Mother Kills Infant Daughter |
| Murder | Zoloft | 2009-06-10 | Texas | Mother Kills One Child: Critically Wounds Another |
| Murder | Antidepressant | 2001-09-03 | Florida | Mother Kills One Son: Injures Two Other Sons |
| Murder-Suicide | Antidepressants | 2008-07-24 | Washington | Mother Kills Son & Self: Change in Antidepressant Med a Week Before the Shooting |
| Murder | Zoloft | 2005-04-19 | North Carolina | Mother Kills Son: Attempts to Kill Daughter |
| Murder-Suicide | Med for Depression | 1993-04-09 | Tennessee | Mother Kills Two Children & Self |
| Death | Med For Depression | 2007-05-30 | Belgium | Mother Leaves Baby in Hot Car |
| Child Abandonment | Med For Depression | 2008-08-27 | England | Mother Leaves Child Alone So the Mother Can Go Partying |
| Murder Attempt | Prozac | 2007-12-10 | Indiana | Mother Misdiagnosed with Depression Tries to Kill Infant |
| Murder | Antidepressant | 2008-05-06 | Wisconsin | Mother Murders 2 Year Old Son |
| Murder | Zoloft | 2006-05-25 | Illinois | Mother Murders 34 Year Old Daughter |
| Murder | Antidepressant Withdrawal | 2003-07-23 | Florida | Mother Murders 4 Year Old Daughter |
| Murder | Antidepressants | 1993-04-07 | Illinois | Mother Murders 4 Year Old Daughter |
| Murder-Suicide Attempt | Antidepressants | 2002-11-22 | Washington | Mother Murders 5 Year Old Daughter: Attempts Suicide |
| Murder | Antidepressants | 2008-04-01 | England | Mother Murders 5 Year Old Son: Attempts to Kill Herself |
| Murder | Med for Depression | 2002-04-26 | Ireland | Mother Murders 8-Year-Old Son |
| Murder/Possible Suicide | Med for Depression | 2006-04-17 | England | Mother Murders Autistic Son |
| Murder | Antidepressant | 2003-05-31 | California | Mother Murders Baby |
| Murder | Zoloft | 1997-07-30 | Oregon | Mother Murders her 22 Month Old Daughter |
| Murder | Zoloft | 2000-06-29 | California | Mother Murders Her 4 Daughters |
| Murder | Antidepressant | 2008-09-12 | England | Mother Murders her 4 Year Old Daughter |
| Murder | Med for Depression | 2003-02-14 | Washington | Mother Murders Her 5 Year Old Daughter |
| Murder | Med For Depression | 2005-04-15 | Virginia | Mother Murders her 6 Year Old Son: Possible Withdrawal Case |
| Murder | Med for Depression | 2003-09-24 | Texas | Mother Murders her 9 Year Old Daughter |
| Murder | Effexor | 2007-10-16 | California | Mother Murders her 9 Year Old Son |
| Murder | Lexapro | 2007-12-15 | Indiana | Mother Murders Her Adopted Baby |
| Murder | Prozac | 2001-05-06 | Connecticut | Mother Murders her Family |
| Murder | Zoloft | 1999-12-17 | Illinois | Mother Murders her Three Children |
| Murder | Paxil | 2002-08-27 | Montana | Mother Murders Her Two Childrren |
| Murder | Antidepressant | 2002-12-04 | Illinois | Mother Murders One Child: Injures Another |
| Murder | Zoloft | 2003-07-01 | New York | Mother Murders One Child: Injures Another |
| Murder | Antidepressants | 2003-05-09 | Michigan | Mother Murders Only Child, a 22 Year Old Daughter |
| Child Abuse | Zoloft | 2003-02-14 | Florida | Mother Neglects Baby in Car |
| Child Endangerment | Effexor | 2008-04-20 | Florida | Mother Neglects Children: Drives Into Ditch: Also Involved Seroquel & Alcohol |
| Child Endangerment | Paxil | 2007-02-09 | Massachusetts | Mother Of 4 Year Old Who Died of Drugs Overdose Was On Paxil |
| Suicide | Antidepressants | 2007-03-19 | England | Mother of Two Commits Suicide |
| Murder | Antidepressants | 2009-07-30 | Spain | Mother On Med For Depression Kills Daughter’s Rapist 9 Years Later: Sets Him On Fire |
| Murder | Antidepressant | 2008-05-23 | Ohio | Mother Poisons her 11 Month Old Daughter |
| Child Endangerment | Paxil | 2008-04-14 | Florida | Mother Puts Child in Danger: Also Involved Alcohol |
| Injury To Child | Bipolar Meds Withdrawal | 2007-09-16 | Texas | Mother Set 3 Daughters & Self on Fire |
| Arson & Child Endangerment | Paxil | 2005-08-12 | Illinois | Mother Set House on Fire with 6 Year Old Son Inside |
| Arson/Murder Attempt | Antidepressants | 2007-12-06 | Australia | Mother Set House on Fire With Son Inside |
| Suicide | Antidepressants | 2006-05-04 | England | Mother Sets Self on Fire |
| Murder | Med For Depression | 1991-11-18 | Georgia | Mother Shoots & Kills Daughter |
| Murder | Med for Depression | 2003-04-04 | Connecticut | Mother Shoots 4 Year Old Daughter |
| Murder-Suicide | Prozac | 1998-09-09 | Michigan | Mother Shoots 8 Year Old Son & Self |
| Murder | Prozac | 1999-08-15 | Florida | Mother Shoots her Daughter |
| Murder-Suicide | Med for Depression | 1999-07-14 | Tennessee | Mother Shoots her Two Children & Self |
| Murder-Suicide | Prozac | 1998-06-05 | Michigan | Mother Shoots her Two Children & Sister |
| Murder-Suicide | Med for Depression | 2001-07-10 | Tennessee | Mother Shoots her Two Teen-Aged Children & Herself |
| Murder-Suicide | Antidepressants | 2004-12-31 | North Carolina | Mother Shoots Two Children & Self |
| Murder | Antidepressant Withdrawal | 2003-06-25 | Massachusetts | Mother Smothers 4 Year Old Daughter |
| Murder | Antidepressants | 2009-05-19 | Australia | Mother Smothers Her One-Month Old Baby: Possible Change of Med or Withdrawal |
| Child Endangerment | Prozac | 2007-09-14 | Indiana | Mother Spikes Her Daughters Applesauce with Prozac for 6 Months |
| Murder Attempt | Med For Depression Withdrawal | 2009-04-03 | Massachusetts | Mother Stabs 2 Year Old Daughter with Scissors |
| Murder | Med For Depression | 2009-05-04 | Louisiana | Mother Stabs To Death her Two Children: Possible Withdrawal Case |
| Murder | Antidepressants | 2003-05-05 | California | Mother Suffocates 7 Year Old Son |
| Murder | Prozac | 1998-03-01 | California | Mother Suffocates her 3 Children |
| Arson & Murder Attempt | Med for Depression | 2004-06-24 | Florida | Mother Torches House with her Children Inside |
| Murder Attempt-Suicide Attempt | Antidepressant | 2007-04-27 | Indiana | Mother Tries to Electrocute her Daughter & Herself |
| Murder Attempt | Antidepressants | 2007-04-24 | Wisconsin | Mother Tries to Kill 4 Kids, Self |
| Murder-Suicide Attempt | Antidepressants | 2006-05-04 | New York | Mother Tries to Kill her Two Children & Herself |
| Murder Attempt | Antidepressants | 2009-02-10 | Australia | Mother Tries to Poison Her Two Children |
| Murder Attempt-Suicide Attempt | Antidepressants | 2008-08-27 | Australia | Mother Tries to Poison her Two Children & Self: Also Involved Antipsychotics |
| Child Endangerment & Suicide Attempt | Paxil | 2004-07-03 | New York | Mother Turns Gas On While Children are Near |
| Child Endangerment | Prozac | 2008-08-26 | Arkansas | Mother With 8 Children in Car Runs Into Side of Building |
| Murder-Suicide | Med for Depression | 2004-07-09 | Virginia | Mother with Cancer Kills her Two Children & Self |
| Murder & Arson | Prozac | 1995-10-23 | Kansas | Mother, an M.D., Deliberately Sets her House on Fire: Two Children Die |
| Murder | Med For Depression | 2009-07-09 | Minnesota | Mothers Kills her 10 Year Old Son: Attempts to Kills her 11 Year Daughter & Self |
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Of course there is a correlation. People without mental illness don’t take SSRIs, or other anti-depression medications. And please, take a basic abnormal psychology class. Or even just read a text book.
Obviously this is the first time you have read this blog.
I did take psychopathology in college, along with many other psychology classes but that does not change anything.
And, I did take Zoloft, and, I do not / did not have a mental illness although I did have Zoloft-induced psychotic side effects. Demonstrated by the fact that I was fine before Zoloft, had a dose-dependent worsening of homicidal urges on Zoloft, and was fine after getting off Zoloft. Causation proved.
Perhaps you should take your whining to the drug companies and the FDA. There is black-box warning on SSRIs for a doubled rate of suicidality. Effexor states on the label that it causes homicidal ideation. Most or all of the psychotropic drugs have psychosis as possible side effects on the label.
Try reading a drug label once in a while. They’re available online in PDF form or you could google drug-induced psychosis.
For that matter, look up medication-induced psychosis in the DSM.
(By the way, people “without mental illness” take medication all the time. For things like smoking cessation a la “Zyban” which is wellbutrin, Chantix, bla bla bla. Sarafem a la Prozac for PMS, off label uses, etc. If you think people who aren’t mentally ill don’t go crazy on drugs, either everyone is mentally ill, or you are clueless. Oh, there is also the concept of preventing diseases through drugs so people with no “mental illness” are drugged after birth all the time.)
Don’t bother wasting any more of your precious time.
http://www.cchrint.org/psychdrugdangers/
Psychiatric Drug Side Effects Search Engine
http://www.cchrint.org/cchr-issues/watchdog-announces-psychiatric-drug-side-effects-search-engine/
Between 2004-2008 there were 4,895 suicides, 3,908 cases of aggression, 309 homicides and 6,945 cases of diabetes from people taking psychiatric drugs. These numbers reflect only a small percentage of the actual side effects occurring in the consumer market, as the FDA has admitted that only 1-10% of side effects are ever reported to the FDA.
The Psychiatric Drug Side Effects Search Engine provides individual reports of side effects (for the 2004-2006 period), and is searchable by type of drug, age of patient, the side effect reported (suicide, homicide, heart attack, stroke, mania, etc.), who provided the reported side effect to the drug (doctor, pharmacist, consumer etc), and whether the drug in question carries a black box warning (the agency’s strongest warning—short of banning a drug) as well as the top 20 reported adverse reactions (side effects) to all psychiatric drugs to the FDA and combined summaries of all psychiatric drug reactions for the years 2004-2006 and 2004-2008.
[...] of an honor student unknown to gang assailants in Chicago, an attempted car bombing in Dallas, violence caused by medications such as antidepressants, and the list goes [...]
[...] of an honor student unknown to gang assailants in Chicago, an attempted car bombing in Dallas, violence caused by medications such as antidepressants, and the list goes [...]
Brodmann ‘s area 25 combines neural traffic among five vital brain areas: hippocampus that serves as a short term memory storage, the amygdale, that moderates fear and other emotions; hypothalamus, which helps to regulate stress and arousal, the orbitofrontal and medial frontal cortices, two poorly understood areas that serve as a long term memory storage. It is not a junction box of sorts as some people speculate but is a center responsible for allocation and mapping of long term memory while it is transcribed from hippocampus to the other areas of the brain during sleep period. This area is also activated during retrieval of these memories and the fact that this area is active in people who are suffering from depression is mostly a unintended consequence of using antidepressant medication.
Let me try to explain: we all have painful memories and some people’s memories are more painful than others. These memories are formed at the times when painful events take place in our lives. Painful and scary events that affect us cause our brains to release fight of flight hormones into out bloodstream. Once released these hormones circulate in our bloodstream for a long time unless they get metabolised by physical activity like; fighting or running away.
Simply put; we get scared by an outside trigger and we deal with it by fighting or running away from the cause of our fears. In such fight of flight scenario our brains rapidly return to normal state, so when we fall asleep memories of events of the day that are stored in short term memory are transferred and stored in part of the brain that are accessible to easy retrieval. (We have a total memory recall of the event).
If for whatever reason we are unable to fight or run away from the cause of our fears and fall asleep at the end of the day still in fear for our life with amygdale on a high alert and hypothalamus still pumping out fight or flight hormones into our bloodstream, the memory of painful event gets transferred, during sleep period, from short term memory to inaccessible part of long term memory (we have no instant recall of what scared us) because we failed to cope with the threat when memory got transferred for long term storage.
High level of activity of amygdale and high activity of hypothalamus causes massive release of various neurotransmitters in our brains to better cope with the threat that we are facing, so when we fall asleep in such condition Brodmann s area 25 maps out such memories for storage with all neurotransmitters at high level (area 25 dials proverbial #999 distress call on an old telephone exchange). and as a result storage of long term memory is made in not so easily accessible brain location. Such memories are not easily accessible but also they do not get easily overwritten by memories of any subsequent events. Normally, we should get recall of these emotionally charged (emotionally unprocessed) memories only if and when we encounter similar scary situations when such recall is useful to our survival.
Among many other factors; illness, physical injuries, disability, lack of daylight, emotional stress caused by other people s aggression and hostility, aging, poor nutrition, are natural causes of depression and depressive reaction to such causes serves useful function as depression causes reduction in level of physical activities allowing for recovery from illness or physical injuries and survival in hostile or harsh (seasonal depression) environment. Depression by itself as discomforting as it might be rarely leads someone to commit suicide.
Now, we enter into this mix modern psychiatry and their reckless use of psychotropic substances and antidepressants.
What antidepressants of SSRI type do is bock re-uptake of neurotransmitter serotonin and allow for a build-up of the level of serotonin in the brain. Other antidepressants give a big bust to a level neurotransmitter called norepinephrine. By boosting level of neurotransmitters antidepressants increase activity of Brodmann s area 25, they crank up numbers that can be dialled on a proverbial old telephone exchange and cause that #999 distress calls from these emotionally charged (emotionally unprocessed) memories start to flood our consciousness and cause our brain to suffer emotional stress (factual memory is linked with emotional component and that emotional component is regenerated during recall) that is caused this time not so much by other people s aggression and hostility (useful depression) but by memories of painful events from distant past – reactive depression.
This starts a vicious circle; we prescribe more antidepressants to combat depression and as a result of the boost in level of neurotransmitters more painful memories are flooding conscious part of the brain causing more emotional distress and more depression until victim of such psychiatric treatment hunted by the demons of his or her painful childhood calls it quit and commits mass murder/suicide.
Even without the use of antidepressants sudden success in life or exposure to the constant daylight (see: Anders Behring Breivik case and http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-244X/9/20/#B24 ) can cause such a boost in levels of neurotransmitters circulating in the brain that these phenomena can trigger flood of painful and emotionally unprocessed memories and start a vicious cycle leading to a mass murder and/or suicide.
Since this theory lays blame for murder/suicides on psychoactive substances that are used to allegedly help people relive symptoms of depression and reduce risk of suicide no psychiatrist in US or Canada would be willing to go on the record with such theory even if they knew it because if any of them did Big Pharma would make sure that his or her psychiatric career would come to an abrupt end.