Fully agree… so this is why we’re here…
Sure… that is why I want the others think about what happened and, maybe, discover that need to be better in some way: compasion, friendship, giving time and love to the others, help, forgive!, etc. etc.
Quote from mauserme:
“I have a friend who went bankrupt after going on antidepressants - he seemed to believe he couldn’t fail at anything, even in some terrible business decisions that everyone around him recognized could not work. He was always an over confident person before the drugs, but to the point of ruin after going on the medication.”
mauserme: What you have described is a person who is “bi-polar” which used to be called manic-depressive. He needed the antidepressant for the depressive state and he should have been taking something for the manic portion also. Many people when they are manic believe they are a god. If someone feels they “couldn’t fail at anything” why would they want to take a drug to stop that feeling. Manic people are very prone to not wanting to take their prescribed medications. Surprisingly, the medication they often need isn’t even a drug, it is lithium salt.
Hi GeneJ.
I fully agree with you that some people need prescribed drugs, and also should be taken off when they show averse reactions. But drugs can never be a solution for things that could be altered in another way.
In how many cases this is entered as an easy way out of a social or an emotional problem. To be on drugs for years and years can make people really inert, rob them of their emotions, and turn them into hopeless zombies.
Off course when the alternative forms no solution, I agree with you. But do not think that this is candy, the averse effects can be gruesome as well or when someone goes “berserk” because of this or take their own lives…the cause is often missed. It is a two-sided sword and that is what it is, and it just depends what side cuts deepest.
polonus
I think the school has to take some responsibility in this, After the first shooting they should have been on lockdown and had extra officers on patrol until the killer was found. (just my opinion)
Polonus: Modern drugs for depression do not turn people into “zombies”. They let them lead normal lives. Some drugs for schizophrenia do have bad side effects, but compared to the disease untreated, most people are far better off on the medication as prescribed. The blog I mentioned in an earlier post in this thread, will show how these drugs have affected one young man and his family.
No one has suggested that the young student at VT was on any of those schizophrenia meds.
You might wish to Google the side effects of Zoloft or Prozac for the specific side effects of these two antidepressant drugs.
Keep up the good fight against malware, I enjoy reading your posts.
to not to be forgotten-one week after the horror and forever 
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g86/drhayden1/News-In-Pictures-April-16-22.jpg
Thanks for posting their photo… It’s unbelievable that the media news give more importance to the killer than to the victims… I don’t want to know more about the killer… I wish people care about the victims more…