SSRI

Another article today on SSRIs.

First a note on SSRIs: There is a chemical substance operating between neurons called serotonin, there are other substances similar to this as well. It is used to be more common that there were tricyclic antidepressants, these supposedly affected many of these chemicals substances between neurons. Now in use more commonly are SSRIs or "selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor", which reportedly affect only serotonin. The idea is that their reuptake, which is literally their re-up-take or reacceptance back into the cells, is slowed down, they don't get absorbed by the cells so well.

This is supposed to cure you of depression and a number of a other made pseudoscience fairy tales. But unfortunately these lead to other things, as in the above article where it is mentioning a doctor who's tesimony was a deciding factor in this case:

His expert testimony at the trial of a Wyoming lawsuit involving violence associated with Paxil in 2001, was a deciding factor in the return of a favorable verdict for the plaintiffs. The trial involved the tragic case where 60-year-old, Donald Schell, shot and killed his wife, daughter and granddaughter and then himself after taking Paxil for only two days.

Antidepression medicine, really? Show me the results.