Matt Walsh

There's actual data to suggest that indeed, SSRIs could be directly contributing to the problem.

This is from a study published in 2016 in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, quote, the century-old belief that patients with depression are at a heightened risk of suicide as they begin to recover and their energy and motivation return is being propagated everywhere.

Because of this deeply ingrained idea, many psychiatrists believe that when patients become suicidal on an antidepressant drug, it is not an adverse effect of the drug, but a positive sign

that the drug starts working.

However, a systematic review from 2009 showed that the research that has been carried out contradicts this belief.

And our review also suggests that it is wrong.

We found that antidepressants double the risk of suicidality and violence.

And it's particularly interesting that the volunteers in the studies we reviewed were healthy adults with no signs of a mental disorder.

While it is now generally accepted that antidepressants increase the risk of suicide and violence,

In children and adolescents, although many psychiatrists still deny this, most people believe that these drugs are not dangerous for adults.

This is a potentially lethal misconception.

Antidepressants double the occurrence of events in adult healthy volunteers that can lead to suicide and violence.

Now, to be clear about what they found, when looking at healthy volunteers, people with no mental health issues, SSRIs made them far more suicidal and violent.

Now, nobody can explain exactly why this happens because, again, nobody knows how SSRIs work at all.

And how exactly is it?

I mean, what does it mean to be suicidal?

It means that you have a thought.

You have the thought of taking your own life.

Well, how is it that a drug could put a thought in somebody's head?

How can you take someone who's healthy and has never had any suicidal thoughts, and then you start making them think these thoughts?