Antidepressants are the suicide drug
Is our culture of relentless achievement and success driving our young people to suicide? SIRS database states, Depression is a mental condition that is characterized as extreme feelings of sadness, worthlessness, or hopelessness. Statistics taken from SIRS database talk about how ten to fifteen percent of young people exhibit symptoms of depression. Mental depression is a serious matter. Some say that antidepressants will improve a child’s quality of life, while others contend that medications will lead to thought of suicide (SIRS). This paper will examine viewpoint, one, two and my viewpoint on if Antidepressant drugs should be prescribed to people and adolescent kids suffering from depression.
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Firstly, antidepressants can increase depression, and worsen someone’s mental health. For example, my personal experience is as follows. After my mother’s divorce, her depression began to take over. She began to shut her entire family out. That’s when doctors had prescribed her antidepressants and thus began the suicide attempts. This put my family in a tough spot and we were all in charge of taking care of a 38 year old. Thus, her depression worsened after she began taking antidepressants. Secondly, doctors believe upping her dosage would help control her depression. For instance, my mom started losing her appetite and wouldn’t eat, I was forced to feed her. She stopped going to work and lost her job. This all leads to the first time she tried to commit suicide. The dosage of her medication was then increased again. Therefore, each time her medication dosage went up, her mental health would plummet. To illustrate, doctors finally began to wing my mother of the medications to find a better approach to help her depression. She was then told to surround herself with what makes her happy, friends, family, and even a hobby. Only then did her depression start to improve. Hence there are better ways to handle depression that doesn’t not involve antidepressants. For all these reasons, the side effects of people on antidepressants can affect the individual’s family as
Is our culture of relentless achievement and success driving our young people to suicide? SIRS database states, Depression is a mental condition that is characterized as extreme feelings of sadness, worthlessness, or hopelessness. Statistics taken from SIRS database talk about how ten to fifteen percent of young people exhibit symptoms of depression. Mental depression is a serious matter. Some say that antidepressants will improve a child’s quality of life, while others contend that medications will lead to thought of suicide (SIRS). This paper will examine viewpoint, one, two and my viewpoint on if Antidepressant drugs should be prescribed to people and adolescent kids suffering from depression.
To begin …show more content…
Firstly, antidepressants can increase depression, and worsen someone’s mental health. For example, my personal experience is as follows. After my mother’s divorce, her depression began to take over. She began to shut her entire family out. That’s when doctors had prescribed her antidepressants and thus began the suicide attempts. This put my family in a tough spot and we were all in charge of taking care of a 38 year old. Thus, her depression worsened after she began taking antidepressants. Secondly, doctors believe upping her dosage would help control her depression. For instance, my mom started losing her appetite and wouldn’t eat, I was forced to feed her. She stopped going to work and lost her job. This all leads to the first time she tried to commit suicide. The dosage of her medication was then increased again. Therefore, each time her medication dosage went up, her mental health would plummet. To illustrate, doctors finally began to wing my mother of the medications to find a better approach to help her depression. She was then told to surround herself with what makes her happy, friends, family, and even a hobby. Only then did her depression start to improve. Hence there are better ways to handle depression that doesn’t not involve antidepressants. For all these reasons, the side effects of people on antidepressants can affect the individual’s family as