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Could the proliferation of psychotropic drugs play any part in mass shootings?
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<blockquote data-quote="HMFIC" data-source="post: 2075602" data-attributes="member: 7539"><p>Since you quoted me with respect to this, I feel obligated to respond directly.</p><p></p><p>I personally am not in favor of the incredible amount of medications prescribed in psychiatric care these days either. I have direct and personal experience with a variety of them through my nutjob ex-wife who went through about a dozen different ones before finally giving up on taking anything (Ps. she is still crazy with or without them). There were days when I certainly felt as though the medications were making her behavior worse and there were days when I felt they might be having a positive effect. I also have a good friend who has found the right medication for his condition and even though he's a bit nutty, the medication evens him out and allows him to live a more healthy, enjoyable and productive life. I do also firmly believe that the medications are too prevalent and handed out far too often these days and I think that is a shame when most who are on it may just need some counseling or a dose of reality to learn to live with life.</p><p></p><p>All that said, I am no expert on chemical brain function, but neither are you or likely anyone else on this board... so to make a layman's jump and blame the medication for these disturbed people going off the deep end is, I think, simply your conjecture fed by a desire to seek a cause and solution with perhaps a tendency to accept conspiracy theories.</p><p></p><p>The bottom line is this: Crazy people do crazy things regardless of their medications and I would expect for people who are capable of reaching this level of crazy to have some prior history exposing that fact. These are not sane individuals who were "feeling a little sad one sometimes" as you say, got some psychotropic drugs, and then went on a murder and mayhem rampage. These individuals were already greatly disturbed and likely capable and predisposed to taking this action with or without psychotropic drugs. </p><p></p><p>I'll grant you this much... I would like to see further study on it and I would like to see our society stop handing out these pills like tic-tacs. If what you say is true, given the vast proliferation of these drugs, we should be seeing MANY more problems. I'm not going to jump on board the blame train and offer these medications as the sole cause for what is akin to a scorpion stinging someone. It's in their nature to begin with.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HMFIC, post: 2075602, member: 7539"] Since you quoted me with respect to this, I feel obligated to respond directly. I personally am not in favor of the incredible amount of medications prescribed in psychiatric care these days either. I have direct and personal experience with a variety of them through my nutjob ex-wife who went through about a dozen different ones before finally giving up on taking anything (Ps. she is still crazy with or without them). There were days when I certainly felt as though the medications were making her behavior worse and there were days when I felt they might be having a positive effect. I also have a good friend who has found the right medication for his condition and even though he's a bit nutty, the medication evens him out and allows him to live a more healthy, enjoyable and productive life. I do also firmly believe that the medications are too prevalent and handed out far too often these days and I think that is a shame when most who are on it may just need some counseling or a dose of reality to learn to live with life. All that said, I am no expert on chemical brain function, but neither are you or likely anyone else on this board... so to make a layman's jump and blame the medication for these disturbed people going off the deep end is, I think, simply your conjecture fed by a desire to seek a cause and solution with perhaps a tendency to accept conspiracy theories. The bottom line is this: Crazy people do crazy things regardless of their medications and I would expect for people who are capable of reaching this level of crazy to have some prior history exposing that fact. These are not sane individuals who were "feeling a little sad one sometimes" as you say, got some psychotropic drugs, and then went on a murder and mayhem rampage. These individuals were already greatly disturbed and likely capable and predisposed to taking this action with or without psychotropic drugs. I'll grant you this much... I would like to see further study on it and I would like to see our society stop handing out these pills like tic-tacs. If what you say is true, given the vast proliferation of these drugs, we should be seeing MANY more problems. I'm not going to jump on board the blame train and offer these medications as the sole cause for what is akin to a scorpion stinging someone. It's in their nature to begin with. [/QUOTE]
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