Paxil Prozac Luvox Zoloft Lexapro Celexa for Bipolar Disorder

Posted by David B. and Dianne Hansen | May 13, 2009 .

Anti-depressants and placebos do NOT affect the bipolar brain

SSRIs are bad for the bipolar brain.

Paxil, Prozac, Luvox, Zoloft, Lexapro and Celexa are SSRI drugs. Wikepedia defines SSRI: Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or serotonin-specific reuptake inhibitor (SSRIs) are a class of compounds typically used as antidepressants in the treatment of depression, anxiety disorders, and some personality disorders. The first class of psychotropic drugs to be rationally designed, SSRIs are the most widely prescribed antidepressants in many countries.

From Mental Help Dot Net Bipolar Disorder Treatment – SSRI and SNRI Antidepressants: Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and other new antidepressants, such as buproprion and venlafaxine, are generally considered to be the first-line choices for the depressed phase of bipolar illness. Other medications such as tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs), and monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) have also entered the bipolar treatment regimen. As discussed earlier, antidepressants alone have the potential to trigger a manic episode; therefore, they are prescribed in combination with a mood stabilizing drug.

Similar to mood stabilizers, there are studies to support the use of antidepressants in between episodes. Continuous use of both antidepressant and mood stabilization treatments may keep the severe symptoms of bipolar disorder away. Specific antidepressants may not be safe for pregnant or nursing women and should be discussed with a physician.

From Web MD Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) for Bipolar Disorder Your doctor may prescribe newer antidepressants known as SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) for treating severe depression in bipolar disorder. They are usually prescribed along with lithium.

We have documentation to show that SSRI drugs don’t have any more effect on bipolar disorder than a placebo does.

But worse than that, we have testimonies from a doctor and a sheriff about SSRIs that you will surely find intriguing…

First let Dr. Ann Blake Tracy introduce the sheriff: “Sheriff Richard Mack and I grew up together. His sister was one of my best friends and we all spent a lot of time together. I knew his family very well and I also know his wife’s family very well. So when I began to write about SSRIs and noticed so many cases showing up in my own home town involving antidepressants, including one of his best friends, I called him. At that time he was serving as the Graham County Sheriff. While serving in that capacity he brought three of his best buddies home in body bags because they committed suicide on one of these drugs. He has been one of my most avid supporters ever since as I have also been an avid supporter of his work.

In 2004 he made the trip cross country with us to Washington, DC to testify before the FDA. I have included his testimony below for you to see how much of an impact his powerful testimony must have had upon the FDA Advisory
Committee in encouraging them to place the Black Box Warnings for increased suicide on antidepressants. He and I both know that law enforcement mustwake up to the nightmare of these drugs as they deal with it daily.

He has a new book out, “The County Sheriff, America’s Last Hope” and he just sent me a YouTube video interview that he just did on the book. I share it with you now as well as his powerful FDA testimony below.”

Sheriff Mack’s testimony before the FDA in 2004: “My name is Richard Mack. I am a retired law enforcement officer and sheriff from Arizona. My expertise in that field was juvenile delinquency, school violence, and narcotics investigations.

My first experience with SSRIs was when I was a parent of a second grader, my wife and I were called into the school, our son had a problem staying in his chair. What was the government school’s answer? Drug your son into submission, so he will stay in his chair. We refused and we thank God now that we did. Our son turned out just fine, played basketball, baseball, and excelled at school and sports.

I was a sheriff of a small community in Arizona. We had an abnormal amount of high rate of suicide and teen violence. I am just an investigator, I just present the facts. One thing that we could not ignore was the circumstantial evidence that the common denominator in all of these cases was the victims or perpetrators were on SSRIs.

In investigating these events, it became quite commonplace for all of us to ask the same question as we got to the next event of horrified and traumatized people and families. You have heard from many of them today.

Some people don’t have the adverse reaction to these drugs, some do. I learned the same with LSD when I investigated that as an undercover narcotics officer. I can only say that the evidence is mounting over and over as did in our investigations.

We cannot, as law enforcement officials, ignore such circumstantial evidence. I doubt very seriously if you could either. I am an advocate for state’s rights and I do believe that if the FDA fails to take action, the state and local authorities will have to. Thank you.” -Sheriff Richard Mack

Dr. Tracy’s testimony before the FDA: Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D.

I would like to say, first of all, that this is a meeting that should not be taking place today. I testified at an FDA hearing similar to this in 1991, and these drugs should have been banned at that time in my opinion. I am Dr. Ann Blake Tracy, a Ph.D. in health sciences with emphasis on psychology. I have spent the last 14 years researching the SSRIs and working with patients who are having adverse reactions to these medications. I am also the author of Prozac: Panacea or Pandora, Our Serotonin Nightmare. I have testified in criminal and civil cases for 12 years concerning these medications, and I am greatly concerned about the use of these drugs among children, with developing brains, who have far more reactions than the general public would, and the elderly who are having severe adverse reactions.

What I presented to the FDA in 1991, I would like to present again. Each of you will get a copy of this. This is a 31-year-old patient on Prozac for six months, shows the patient, although appearing alert and functioning, in a total anesthetic sleep state while dreaming. I believe technically, you could call that a REM sleep behavior disorder.

The research now shows, this many years later, that 86 percent of the cases being diagnosed with this REM sleep behavior disorder are patients on antidepressants, 80 percent of those on SSRI antidepressants.There are some very famous cases that I believe manifest that very clearly, and in representing those families today, I would give you Andrea Yates, who drowned her five children while taking Effexor and Remeron.

DR. RUDORFER: Thank you. I am afraid we are out of time now.

DR. RUDORFER: Thank you.

Dr. Ann Blake Tracy’s September 13, 2004 to the FDA
I am Ann Blake Tracy, PhD, head of the International Coalition for Drug Awareness. I am the author of Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? – Our Serotonin Nightmare and have testified in court cases involving antidepressants for 12 1/2 years. The last 15 years of my life have been devoted full time to researching and writing about SSRI antidepressants. Research on serotonin has been clear from the very beginning that the most damaging thing that could be done to the serotonin system would be to impair one?s ability to metabolize serotonin. Yet that is exactly how SSRI antidepressants exert their effects.

For decades research has shown that impairing serotonin metabolism will produce migraines, hot flashes, pains around the heart, difficulty breathing, a worsening of bronchial complaints, tension and anxiety which appear from out of nowhere, depression, suicide – especially very violent suicide, hostility, violent crime, arson, substance abuse, psychosis, mania, organic brain disease, autism, anorexia, reckless driving, Alzheimer’s, impulsive behavior with no concern for punishment, and argumentative behavior.

How anyone ever thought it would be “therapeutic” to chemically induce these reactions is beyond me. Yet, these reactions are exactly what we have witnessed in our society over the past decade and a half as a result of the widespread use of these drugs. In fact we even have a whole new vocabulary as a result with terms such as “road rage,” “suicide by cop,” “murder/suicide,” “going postal,” “false memory syndrome,” “school shooting,” “bi-polar” – every third person you meetanymore – along with the skyrocketing rates of antidepressant-induced diabetes and hypoglycemia.

Can you remember two decades ago when depressed people used to slip away quietly to kill themselves rather than killing everyone around them and they themselves as they do while taking SSRI antidepressants?

A study out of the University of Southern California in 1996 looked at a group of mutant mice in an experiment that had gone terribly wrong. These genetically engineered mice were the most violent creatures they had ever witnessed. They were born lacking the MAO-A enzyme which metabolizes serotonin. As a result their brains were awash in serotonin. This excess serotonin is what the researchers determined was the cause for this extreme violence. Antidepressants produce the same end result as they inhibit the metabolism of serotonin.

These are extremely dangerous drugs that should be banned as similar drugs have been banned in the past.
As a society we once thought LSD and PCP to be miracle medications with large margins of safety in humans. We have never seen drugs so similar to LSD and PCP as these SSRI antidepressants. All of these drugs produce dreaming during periods of wakefulness. It is believed that the high serotonin levels over stimulate the brain stem leading to a lack of muscle paralysis during sleep thus allowing the patient to act out the dreams or nightmares they are having.

The world witnessed that clearly in the Zoloft-induced murder-suicide of comedian Phil Hartman and his wife, Brynn. Connecticut witnessed the Prozac-induced case of Kelly Silk several years ago. This young mother attacked her family with a knife, then set the house on fire killing all but her 8 year old daughter who ran to the neighbors. As she stood bleeding and screaming for help she explained, “Help! My mommy is having a nightmare!” Out of the mouths of babes we will understand these nightmares for whatthey are. She understood that this was something her mother would do ONLY in a nightmare, never in reality.

This is known as a REM Sleep Behavior Disorder. In the past it was known mainly as a drug withdrawal state, but the largest sleep facility in the country has reported that 86% of the cases they are diagnosing are patients on antidepressants. Because this was known in the past as a condition manifesting mainly in drug withdrawal you should see how dangerous the withdrawal state from these drugs will prove to be. That is why it is so critical to make sure patients are weaned EXTREMELY slowly so as to avoid ANY chance of going into a withdrawal state.”

For your information, here is the medical article just out in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons on antidepressant-induced murder and suicide.

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