The Truth about Suicide - Part 2

Posted on May 28th, 2007 | by admin |

This video discusses information collected by the Drug Awareness Warning Network; DAWN.

DAWN is part of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration with the Department of Health and Human Services of the United States Government.

One thing that DAWN keeps track of is emergency room visits and suicides connected to drug and medication use.

I think you will find it shocking just how many people attempt or actually successfully complete suicide while taking psychiatric drugs. DAWN even breaks down the number of suicide related to specific categories of medications such as SSRIs, antidepressants, antipsychotics, anxiety medications, stimulants, etc.

We normally think that drugs like Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Luvox, Celexa, Lexapro, Effexor or Wellbutrin as preventing suicide. Is this the case?

You can download and look at these reports for yourself at

http://dawninfo.samhsa.gov/

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  1. 25 Responses to “The Truth about Suicide - Part 2”

  2. By areyoumad2 on Jun 4, 2007 | Reply

    “You have to pay …
    “You have to pay attention to the datum I give before that.”

    I’d much rather hear you opinion then listen to all these statistics.

  3. By areyoumad2 on Jun 4, 2007 | Reply

    When you talk about …
    When you talk about people who are not getting mental health treatment what do you mean?

    Have they gone to a doctor and been given no treatment or have they simply never gone to a doctor?

    If they had gone to a doctor and been given no treatment then this would suggest that the problem was not severe. If they were able to live with the problem without going to a doctor then this would also suggest the problem was not severe. Either way you would not expect a lot of them to commit suicide.

  4. By psychetruth on Jun 4, 2007 | Reply

    I avoid giving my …
    I avoid giving my opinion in videos like this.

  5. By psychetruth on Jun 4, 2007 | Reply

    Ok lets be more …
    Ok lets be more specific. According to suicidal(dot)com, “75% of depressed people don’t seek treatment” because of feeling ashamed or stigma. It simply is what is guy. The CDC found about 60 percent of the suicides they tracked were already taking medications for a mental health problem. That’s just fact. Also, see the 3rd video “suicide treatment” to hear from a CDC officer on the subject.

  6. By hran6868 on Jul 8, 2007 | Reply

    This is a great …
    This is a great video. Those drugs “kill” not “cure’ people.

  7. By AlterEgoTrip on Jul 11, 2007 | Reply

    I’m getting the …
    I’m getting the impression that this is actually trying to help “depressed” people are medicated to help them feel more hopeless and powerless, thus this lable “mental health problem” as well as medication creates more hopelessness; a prescription for suicide. Perhaps this is part of an experiement? who can say, feeling as though there is a conspiracy may mean that I could be labled as “mentally ill”.

  8. By psychetruth on Jul 12, 2007 | Reply

    I’ve considered the …
    I’ve considered the possibility that there is a covert modern day eugenics movement being perpetrated on the “mental ill”. If nothing else antidepressants cause sexual dysfunction and lower sperm count and quality. They certainly discourage reproduction.

  9. By AlterEgoTrip on Jul 12, 2007 | Reply

    In all honesty, I …
    In all honesty, I wouldn’t be surprised because I’ve only seen this abuse of the mental health “system” in America, and funny as it sounds, I lived in Florida, the home of the “Baker Act”; even my psych 101 teacher in the early years mentioned the system of people being litterally destroyed by drugs like lithium and thorozine, and that most of the time the symtoms of “mental illness” were often less painful than the actual so called “cure”.

  10. By InterpolMan6 on Aug 10, 2007 | Reply

    There isn’t a cure …
    There isn’t a cure for mentaly ill people. I’m one of those people who suffers from ocd exities, prucher, depression learning disabilities, hyper active and i’v been on psiciatric drugs from almost all my life and they don’t work at all. The medicine and med care in the world today is not advance and not prograssing at all. I’m not suprised these people committed sucide because there isn’t a cure for them and they feel sick and bad and the only way to end their suffering is by killing t

  11. By sociopathicregret on Aug 20, 2007 | Reply

    Interpol, I …
    Interpol, I wouldn’t be surprised if the drugs caused long lasting effects that made it much harder.

  12. By shrouded60606 on Oct 3, 2007 | Reply

    My opinion, …
    My opinion, Antidressants arent responsible for these peoples suicides (except on rare occassions where they serve adverse effects), but it does show how little these drugs are doing for the people they are supposed to be helping.

  13. By wwwFamilyPrideOrg on Oct 25, 2007 | Reply

    People might die …
    People might die anyway I am just playing the
    Devil’s Advocate here.

    What’s a good suicide method besides firearms?

  14. By zep4life on Nov 11, 2007 | Reply

    this shit is …
    this shit is completely irrelevant if it’s not compared a control; a population of comparable population that is depressed and NOT on the drug…worthless information

  15. By psychetruth on Nov 11, 2007 | Reply

    If you look a the …
    If you look a the national violent death reporting system statistics you get just that. 60 percent of the suicides in five states were currently receiving mental health treatment vs. the other 40 percent of the suicides that weren’t receiving mental health treatment.

  16. By psychetruth on Nov 11, 2007 | Reply

    Epidemiological …
    Epidemiological data is important by the way, perhaps more so than randomized double blind clinical trails.

    Vioxx as an example looked pretty good in the clinical trails but in the real world, it killed thousands of people and so had to be taken off the market.

    Clinical trails don’t always accurately represent what a drug will do once released into the real work.

  17. By nG370 on Nov 26, 2007 | Reply

    When I was on anti …
    When I was on anti depressants for a while my sense of who I was wasn’t their anymore. I think the psychological effects of taking a drug to change who we are is soul destroying. Even if we are in the worst kind of depression we still have a sense of who we are. Antidepressants have their uses but Doctors need to be much more carefull with their diagnosis and monitoring of depressed people. I personally think most of the problem lies with psychologists being so expensive.

  18. By cocolibri44 on Dec 8, 2007 | Reply

    Really great info. …
    Really great info. I am a survivor of psychiatry, three years without pss..sick meds and with a great therapist I discovered where I came from and who I am. One must read on the history of psychiatry and I suggest you read “Toxic psychiatry” by Dr Peter Breggin. Bravo for your work and hope the medias will promote this type of info regardless of the power of big pharma!and the APA.

  19. By Celestialtears006 on Jan 6, 2008 | Reply

    the ones we love …
    the ones we love are becoming guinea pigs are they the masks will wear forever? maybe people will forget and it wont ever matter ..

    the struggle doesn’t even start with these statistics.

  20. By Celestialtears006 on Jan 6, 2008 | Reply

    and when you state …
    and when you state the actual problem more problems arise: the main problem here is actually not just mental but very very physical - the brain itself is a physical force.

  21. By haydz231 on Jan 7, 2008 | Reply

    i take anti …
    i take anti depressants but its been like 3 years since i started on them and i still dont see what they do the 1st time i tryd to commit suicide i tryd cutting my wrist when i was 15 but as you know your ment to cut down but i cut across i was in the hospital for 3 months now after some treatment and somewhat seems like 100s of different pills i still feel depressed but not suicidel.

  22. By kewldaddy on Jan 8, 2008 | Reply

    Don’t give up just …
    Don’t give up just because you’re stuck in a rut. Seek the Lord and cast your burden upon Him.

    Blessings

  23. By OliviaHadassah on Jan 14, 2008 | Reply

    WOW thanks for the …
    WOW thanks for the info.

  24. By TheeMessenger on Jan 24, 2008 | Reply

    I agree. God will …
    I agree. God will always answer your prayers. It may take a while, but God answers us in his own time.

  25. By TheeMessenger on Jan 24, 2008 | Reply

    Why do you ask that …
    Why do you ask that? Are you suicidal or have been thinking of suicide?

  26. By cutiepinkpanther on Jan 26, 2008 | Reply

    I dont believe ” …
    I dont believe “happy pills” actually work…nothing can make you happy except for yourself

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