Madison Area Lyme Support Group

Most holistic doctors consider Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI) anti-depressants to be one of most harmful mass-prescribed drugs on the market (it typically makes their top 5). However unlike the other drugs, which are just unsafe and ineffective, SSRIs also have a fairly unique problem—they can kill people who are not even taking the drugs.

Note: other common contenders for that list are Statins, NSAIDs (e.g., ibuprofen), and acid reflux medications (proton pump inhibitors like prilosec). The harms and irrationality of those drugs are discussed here, here and here.

What follows is a revised and updated article summarizing the extreme dangers of those drugs I was requested by a few readers to write in light of recent tragic events.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

This is one of the most important articles I’ve read for a long time.  The reason?  The topic of harm caused by anti-depressants is completely denied and ignored by Big Pharma, Big Media, and Big Medicine. I highly recommend you read this in full and share widely because it affects so many people, particularly Lyme/MSIDS patients who often struggle with psychiatric symptoms including depression.  Educating yourself on this is imperative if not for you than for someone you know.

Executive Summary:

• While a minority of patients, particularly those with deficient methylation, who take SSRIs greatly benefit from them, much evidence has accumulated that they cause psychotic violence.
• The author states that out of all of the controversial medical issues, the topic of SSRIs being linked to mass shootings has caused the most vitriol.
• Unfortunately, like COVID and “vaccines” SSRIs have been highly politicalized, often among party lines.
• Each time a mass shooting occurs the same script is repeated (ban all guns and have more mental health care [i.e. psych meds] for everyone).
• Similarly to the “vaccine” topic, the oft repeated argument to dismiss the link between SSRIs and psychotic violence is that “correlation is not causation,” however:
  • clinical trial data hidden from the public gives this evidence
  • a black-box warning states SSRIs increase the risk of suicide
  • the psychotic events are completely out of character and the offenders report a very similar narrative of what they experienced prior to and during the shooting
• SSRIs which entered the market in 1988 have a similar primary mechanism of action as cocaine
• The SSRI Prozac received nearly 40,000 adverse events after 9 years which is far more than any other drug. These events include:
  • hundreds of suicides
  • atrocious violent crimes
  • hostility and aggression
  • psychosis, confusion
  • distorted thinking
  • convulsions
  • amnesia
  • brain-zaps
  • long-term or permanent sexual dysfunction
  • homicides: a website has compiled thousands of documented occurrences
• A significant portion of the article came from the book Deadly Psychiatry and Organized Denial by Peter C. Gøtzsche (which builds upon the critical work Peter Breggin did to expose this issue)
• For those taking SSRIs, do NOT suddenly stop taking them as you can have very strong withdrawal symptoms.  Please read the stories in the article to see how very serious this is.
• Psychosis and Akathisia (extreme restlessness) are known side-effects of SSRIs that have led to strange impulses, or suicide, homicide, or both and are so disturbing they are often described as the individual being possessed, and patients have shared they felt as though a dark force was trying to take over their body
• A clinical investigator wrote to Pfizer that during treatment with SSRIs, patients reported depersonalization and that their range of emotions were blunted as they were unable to feel or express themselves.  Pfizer responded with the admission that this happens with SSRIs and nobody knows why.
• A common thread has occurred with these violent homicides:
  • the act of violence was immediately preceded by a significant change in the meds 
  • they occur in all ages who were completely normal before the act and no precipitating factors besides the psychiatric medication
  • there were clear symptoms of akathisia
  • the offenders returned to their normal personality when they came off the antidepressant

• Similarly to the “vaccine” industry, the psychiatric industry aggressively gaslights victims rather than accept any responsibility
• Individuals with a mutation in the gene that metabolizes psych drugs are much more vulnerable to developing excessive levels of these drugs triggering psychosis and akathisia but this is never considered when the meds are prescribed
• Gøtzsche reviewed some key SSRI legal cases and in 2001 a jury found a pharmaceutical firm liable for deaths caused by an antidepressant. Central to a case were SmithKline Beecham internal documents showing the company was aware that a small number of people could become agitated or violent from Paxil, but they did not include a package warning about suicide, violence or aggression.  Two volunteers attempted suicide, but the company till denies that Paxil can cause homicides, suicides, and withdrawals.
• Similarly to the false illusion that remdesivir helps COVID and that the COVID gene therapy injections are effective, Prozac was originally assessed to treat obesity, but was switched for depression which has a subjective metric which was easier to approve with doctored studies (after which they pivoted to using marketing off-label for obesity). “So, even though the evidence showing Prozac worked for depression was atrocious while abundant evidence existed for its harm, with a few well priced bribes and statistical creativity, Eli-Lilly was able to secure their approval.”  Sound familiar?
• Government corruption has followed a playbook that existed long before the COVID debacle
• While the COVID injections have complete legal immunity, SSRIs are toxic enough to have severely harmed large numbers of people motivated to fight the drug companies in court
• The author states he was able to accurately predict and understand the COVID shot shenanigans due to being intimately familiar with the SSRI story.