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Comment on MARK TAYLOR’S FIGHT FOR COLUMBINE by MARK TAYLOR’S FIGHT FOR COLUMBINE | Remnants of Liberty

MARK TAYLOR’S FIGHT FOR COLUMBINE | Remnants of Liberty — Thu, 02 May 2013 20:04:24 +0000

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Comment on 10 YEARS AFTER BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE-MY RESPONSE TO MICHAEL MOORE by 7 million kids (and their parents) need to watch this movie - WeeksMD | WeeksMD

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:18:15 +0000

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Comment on Michael Moore – Reveals the real cause of Columbine. by 7 million kids (and their parents) need to watch this movie - WeeksMD | WeeksMD

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:54:42 +0000

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Comment on The Drugging of our Children by 7 million kids (and their parents) need to watch this movie - WeeksMD | WeeksMD

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:54:26 +0000

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Comment on Adverse SSRI Reactions by SSRI SIDE EFFCTS: HOW DO I HURT THEE, LET ME COUNT THE WAYS

SSRI SIDE EFFCTS: HOW DO I HURT THEE, LET ME COUNT THE WAYS — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 18:39:56 +0000

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Comment on Ann Blake-Tracy’s September 13, 2004 to the FDA by The Polemicist on gun control: a multifactorial fail | Skeptically Left

The Polemicist on gun control: a multifactorial fail | Skeptically Left — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 18:59:07 +0000

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Comment on Kauffman SSRI Study by ANTIDEPRESSANTS OFFER LITTLE MORE THAN PLACEBO

ANTIDEPRESSANTS OFFER LITTLE MORE THAN PLACEBO — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 18:14:10 +0000

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Comment on PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS & WAR: A SUICIDE MISSION by Kelly O’Meara by PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS & WAR: A SUICIDE MISSION by Kelly O’Meara | ChronicFatigue Fibromyalgia

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:21:08 +0000

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Sites of intrest | notessimple — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:50:24 +0000

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Comment on Kauffman SSRI Study by Columbine: Year 12 | Spotlight On Corruption

Columbine: Year 12 | Spotlight On Corruption — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 07:13:04 +0000

[...] effect” is now considered to be empirically proven in the Kauffman Study published in 2009. Full Kauffman Study. Mark, along with other students and witnesses, told investigators that there were shooters on the [...]

Comment on Kauffman SSRI Study by Columbine Coverup Year 12 | columbinefamilyrequest.org

Columbine Coverup Year 12 | columbinefamilyrequest.org — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:24:39 +0000

[...] Mark filed a lawsuit against Solvay Pharmaceuticals alleging that the Luvox that Eric Harris was taking contributed to his homicidal tendencies. This “side effect” is now considered to be empirically proven in the Kauffman Study published in 2009. Full Kauffman Study. [...]

Comment on nortriptyline (Pamelor) by Ann Tracy

Ann Tracy — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:58:47 +0000

As I explain throughhout my book & CD most of these long term adverse effects of antidepressants come from the damage they do to the pancreas leading to hypoglycemia & in the end diabetes. The anger stems from drops in sugar levels.

Comment on PROZAC: 15 Yr Old Girl Kills 9 Yr Old Neighbor “To See What It Felt Like” by Ann Tracy

Ann Tracy — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:53:44 +0000

The FDA has given it’s strongest warning possible next to a total ban on these drugs that any antidepressant they have ever approved or any to be approved in the future carries an increased risk (DOUBLE!) of suicide if taken by anyone under the age of 25! But since when have doctors ever paid any attention to the FDA warnings as they continue to regularly prescribe “off label”?!

Comment on Cymbalta by Ann Tracy

Ann Tracy — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:44:44 +0000

This is how people end up staying on antidepressants 20 years! Their doctors DO NOT know how to get them off safely! This is why I put my CD “Help! I Can’t Get Off My Antidepressant!” (Available on this site) together for patients wanting to know how to safely withdraw from these drugs. IT IS POSSIBLE TO WITHDRAW SAFELY & RETURN TO A NORMAL LIFE AFTER TAKING AN ANTIDEPRESSANT!

Comment on Cymbalta by Ann Tracy

Ann Tracy — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:34:08 +0000

Parkinson like symptoms was the very first reaction noted with SSRI antidepressants. And muscle damage was one of the first reports of adverse reactions. It has long been known that these drugs peoduce both. How sad that your mother has had to suffer so much as a result of these drugs! What has most likely thrown her into a spin of acute reactions is the switching of her medications from Cymbalta to Pristiq. The FDA has warned that ANY abrupt change in dose of an antidepressant, whether going up or down, can produce suicide, hostility, or psychosis – generally a manic psychosis which is why so many end up with a diagnosis or Bipolar Disorder. But these are all withdrawal effects involving toxicity. What was not addressed is all of the PHYSICAL reactions one can have when going abruptly off one medication (all changes with an antidepressant are abrupt since doing so in less time than half the amount of time you have been on the drug is too fast!) to then abruptly go onto another antidepressant can all too often begin an absolute nightmare as the body goes into shock!!! After 20 years of researching antidepressants & working with those having reactions I have concluded that switching from one of these drugs to another is possibly the most dangerous thing one can do. What a shame physicians remain unaware of this!

Comment on Kauffman SSRI Study by SSRI victim

SSRI victim — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:49:52 +0000

I was suffering with a bit of standard depression and diagnosed with Impulsive personality disorder, I was prescribed these and for a month or so I was fine, Then thing’s changed, I actually wanted to kill people….I definately did not feel like that before or after…. I felt like even if I could kill them it wouldnt be enough, I was so angry and no shouting or expressing myself or hitting walls or any other form of expression would help, I stabbed myself on two seperate occasions, Once in the face and Once in the leg, I became more agitated than you can ever imagine, And the pain was the only thing that could put my mind somewhere else so i sued to frequently hurt myself, I didnt know it was the tablets causing this at the time, The anger was unbearable I shouted in a field for 3 hours trying to let it all out once and for all, Even that did not work, I lost my voice was about all it done, After I stopped taking the tablets it felt like another 2 years before i felt as if I was returning to some normality and even longer to actually say I was back at where I started, I also have a friend who done the same thing’s on these tablets when I spoke to him a couple of years later.

These can cause you to kill believe me, I had to fight very hard not to let the anger consume me, Its anger like you cant imagine and made worse by the fact you cant find no relief from it no matter what you do! Seriously these are BAD.

Comment on Cymbalta by cindy

cindy — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:37:04 +0000

My mother just got put on Pristiq (parent drug is venlafaxine – this is also Effexor) and before that she was taking Cymbalta for years. She has suffered major muscle pain, muscle weakness, muscle wasting, very slow movement, serious tremors, and now she is having problems initiating movement (she has to literally concentrate and tell her leg to move as she walks). I know this sounds as if she has Parkinson’s – but – she ended up in the hospital in January (2011) because she was placed on Methadone for pain and she took a laxative per doctors instructions to prepare herself to go off of Methadone and go on Morphine for pain. It became toxic in her body and her kidneys shut down and her breathing stopped. Her body went into shock. She was in ICU for about a week. After she was moved from ICU, she did not have the strength to feed herself. She went to physical rehab for about 6 weeks (insurance would not pay for longer even though she needed it) and then got rehab at home. She eventually got the the point where her tremors went away and she could walk without assistance. During all of this, her body got a break from the medications. She was placed back on antidepressants as well as blood pressure medication and Hctz (diuretic) and because she tells the doctor that the antidepressant has not been helping – they have increased the dose. Her tremors are worse and she can barely walk WITH a walker (she also has all of the symptoms I mentioned in the beginning – weakness, muscle pain, slow, unsteady gait, etc). I think the drug is causing problems with basal ganglia and motor neurons or even damaging them. I read lots of posts of people having problems with muscle pain. I wonder if anyone else has had serious issues like my mother.

Comment on Cymbalta by Beckey

Beckey — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:52:02 +0000

I understand what you where experincing while getting off the medication or missing a dose. I know that when I miss a dose that i experince the brain zaps and a buinch of other things. It is horriable and I also asked my doctor to get off it and she stated that was not a good idea. I have been on 120mg for five years going on six.

Comment on PROZAC: 15 Yr Old Girl Kills 9 Yr Old Neighbor “To See What It Felt Like” by Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 04:54:53 +0000

My 9 year old nephew was recently sent to a hospital for mental ill children for trying to hang himself. I am so worried about him. I talked to his mother today and she told me that they are giveing him prozac 20 mg that is way to much for his little body. I told her to take him off of I imedietly. She is doing more harm than good letting the doctors give him that poison. He has been doing really bad things and acting very strange unlike
himself. Is that even a legal amount for a 9 year old?

Comment on nortriptyline (Pamelor) by Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:47:24 +0000

This drug has severe side effects in a small percentage of people. I am one of them. At first, I experienced a rapid improvement in depression. Later, I became unreasonably angry about small things. I was in a rage all the time. Before the drug, I was often angry and irritable, which is part of depression. After I took the drug, I was HOSTILE. Also, it gave me terrible PMS. Decades after being off the drug, I am not full of rage but I am angrier and more irritable than I would have been had I not taken it. This has led to me isolating myself so I don’t inflict this on other people.

I had one episode of depression from which I recovered partially on my own before I took the drug and I did not experience this level of rage and anger. This was not a result of depression. This level of hostility was the result of the drug.

I don’t know why the effects were permanent. Individual variations. The fact that I was 21 and brain development is not complete until approximately 25. I was also given Navane at the same time. The psychiatrist, was incompetent and diagnosed me as a schizophrenic, even though all my family history was for depression. In any case, my personality changed radically after taking this drug and the quality of my life is permanently impaired.