tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post116610459905443429..comments2024-03-18T03:28:36.581-04:00Comments on Shrink Rap: FDA Hearing on Antidepressants, Depression, and SuicideUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-1171029087655676042007-02-09T08:51:00.000-05:002007-02-09T08:51:00.000-05:00Anyone who wishes to comment on this blog can cont...Anyone who wishes to comment on this blog can contact me by e-mail:<BR/><BR/>winmastaflex@aol.com<BR/><BR/>p.s., My family has attened numerous FDA hearingsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-1170973017284792602007-02-08T17:16:00.000-05:002007-02-08T17:16:00.000-05:00Any who has studied this topic in depth can tell y...Any who has studied this topic in depth can tell you that anti-depressant drugs can actually create suicidal thoughts and BEHAVIOR!!! Thoughts that never existed before the patient took the antidepressants drug. Hello, lets be realistic, and stop being brainwashed by the money hungery drug companies and the FDA. These two establishments has been working side by side for years, they play golf together and talk about how they can sell more drugs to increase profits. They are not interested in a cure to depression, they want to sell drugs and make money. FDA scientific research discovered the danagers of these drugs in the early 90's, but the finding were only hidden by the FDA to protect profits. Yes the government too profits tremendously off pharmasuticals. My sister was a genuine happy person her entire life. After graduating college she became restless and was experiencing early signs of depression. Her doctor prescribed her to paxil. After taking the drug for a week my sister took her own life at age 23. My sister would still be alive today if she had never taken this antidepressant. And this is not a isolated inncodent, it is very widespread. To all readers I suggest you do further research on this topic. And face the reality that the FDA and there good friend at Glaxosmithklien and the like do not care about their customers health, or lives for that matter, but they put profits first. Yes greed is an evil thing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-1166214881246475472006-12-15T15:34:00.000-05:002006-12-15T15:34:00.000-05:00Call me skeptical, but I am concerned that the FDA...Call me skeptical, but I am concerned that the FDA accepted data for this analysis from the drug manufacturers without checking it. Healy has shown drug company suicide data in the past to be distorted, as suicides/suicide attempts on placebo washout were inappropriately assigned to placebo. You can read <A HREF="http://clinpsyc.blogspot.com/2006/12/can-ssris-cause-suicide-fda-says.html" REL="nofollow">my post</A> for more details. It's possible that the data FDA analyzed were accurate, but I think there were, at the least, some coding procedures that favored medication over placebo in terms of safety.CL Psychhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13990549972520745769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-1166208940624245312006-12-15T13:55:00.000-05:002006-12-15T13:55:00.000-05:00ShrinkRap Readers:How's about you nominate ShrinkR...ShrinkRap Readers:<BR/><BR/>How's about you nominate ShrinkRap for a Medical Blog Award?<BR/><BR/>Go here now :<BR/><BR/>http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2006/12/the_2006_medical_blog_awards.html<BR/><BR/>Welcome to the third annual Medical Weblog Awards! These awards are designed to honor the very best in the medical blogosphere, and to highlight the diverse world of medical blogs.<BR/><BR/>The categories for this year's awards will be:<BR/><BR/>-- Best Medical Weblog <BR/><BR/>-- Best New Medical Weblog (established in 2006) <BR/><BR/>-- Best Literary Medical Weblog<BR/><BR/>-- Best Clinical Sciences Weblog <BR/><BR/>-- Best Health Policies/Ethics Weblog<BR/><BR/>-- Best Medical Technologies/Informatics Weblog<BR/><BR/>-- Best Patient's Blog (a new category this year)<BR/><BR/><BR/>Nominations are now accepted in the comment section of this post. When nominating, please indicate blog's name and URL. A blog can participate in more than one category, so please indicate which one(s).<BR/><BR/>The following timeline will be observed:<BR/><BR/>-- Nominations will be accepted until Sunday, December 31, 2006.<BR/><BR/>-- Polls will be open from Wednesday, January 3, 2007 and will close at midnight on Sunday, January 14, 2007 (PST).<BR/><BR/>-- Awards will be announced on Friday, January 19, 2007.DrivingMissMollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11476761316928942301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-1166127716198557182006-12-14T15:21:00.000-05:002006-12-14T15:21:00.000-05:00However, one cannot differentiate between the peop...However, one cannot differentiate between the people that have decreased suicidal ideation from antidepressant use alone, or merely from the maturity and perspective that comes from getting older.<BR/><BR/>My former shrink said I would probaby "outgrow" the borderline personality disorder by 40. I assume I would "outgrow" the chronic suicidality that comes with that DX as well.<BR/><BR/>We'll see.<BR/><BR/>This is all interesting information, but a bit intimidating for your non-shrink readers, it's not that we aren't interested.<BR/><BR/>Lily<BR/><BR/>PS Dr. McShrinky asked me if I "missed" being suicidal last time I saw him. The lithium at first got rid of the thoughts completely, but even though they are back, the urgency/intensity isn't.DrivingMissMollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11476761316928942301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-1166116832592338212006-12-14T12:20:00.000-05:002006-12-14T12:20:00.000-05:00It doesn't seem like they really stratified patien...It doesn't seem like they really stratified patients on severity of depression (I have to say, I didn't read the whole thing, I lost the will to finish it part-way in). I'm not sure how to rate severity of depression (but there must be a way other than good, bad, and ugly). <BR/><BR/>Also, with respect to the statistics, if they had used a 1-tailed hypothesis, it would have made more of their results significant. Admittedly, the 2-tailed hypothesis is the more conservative way to go, and probably more appropriate, but I was thinking about it. I was tempted to go back through and recalculate the statistics, but then I recovered my sanity.Midwife with a Knifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04309579302399381913noreply@blogger.com