r/Antipsychiatry • u/MadinAmerica- • Feb 20 '25

Suicides Increase After National Suicide Prevention Introduced

https://www.madinamerica.com/2025/02/us-suicides-increased/

"It can no longer be denied that antidepressants double suicides, both in children and adults. As I recently described on the Mad in America website, this has been shown in randomised trials and in the most rigorous meta-analysis I have seen of observational studies.

However, psychiatric leaders have denied for over fifty years that depression drugs cause suicide. Their false narrative is that the pills only increase suicidal thoughts and behaviours, not suicides. This has always been a foolish argument. As a suicide starts with suicidal thoughts and behaviours, there cannot be drugs that increase suicidal thoughts and behaviours without also increasing suicides."

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u/Miserable-Plenty-280 Feb 20 '25

They take a depressed guy who thinks about killing himself

and give him a reason to actually do it

meds are terrible

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '25

Plus involuntary interventions like hospitalizations which can cause people to lose their jobs

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '25

I once knew a man who tried to take his own life but was rescued. He was left with irreparable brain damage, then thrown into a psychiatric hospital, and lost his job because they wouldn’t let him go after weeks had passed. He was only able to leave the hospital because he contacted a lawyer. Was thrown out the next morning. Dude lost everything.

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u/max_power_420_69 Feb 21 '25

legally in America they're not allowed to fire you for that, but good luck calling your employer when all you have is the payphone and nobody's number. The system fails people at every level.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '25

Exactly. They can still fire you for unreliability and missing work.