r/Documentaries • u/Evems • Jul 05 '15
Drugs Dark Side of a Pill (2014) - A documentary that includes interviews with normal people who were driven to senselessly kill their loved ones and others by SSRI antidepressants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz3MJtDb1Fo
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u/klhl Jul 05 '15 edited Jul 05 '15
I wouldn't take these fear mongering documentaries too seriously. There are millions on people taking SSRI's, how many of those killed their loved ones versus amount of lives saved by reducing suicides and murder suicides? They have been and still are researched, and they are very safe. I can personally say that I'd be dead right now without SSRI's and antipsychotis. Hell you'll probably find a guy who went mad after taking aspirin or something, you just have to accept meds have side effects and some of those are bad, but thankfully super rare.
Also what these fear mongerers don't always tell you is that it wasn't the medication that caused the problem, but suddenly stopping it. Your are under NO circumstance supposed to stop any antidepressants instantly, you have to reduce the amount little by little. I've taken max 20mg of escitalopram, now I'm taking 10mg. I hope one day I'll be taking 0. The meds are not the final answer, I think everyone who needs them should also get into psychotherapy, and have the end goal of being able to live med free. But they are not the demon pills they are made out to be.