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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 07:36 AM
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Has there been much discussion on Prozac and the VT killer?
I am sure this will be my only post on this. I have not seen much discussion on this. Seems that most of the recent mass murders at school some psycho active drug was being used by the killers. I had heard briefly that Cho(?) had at some point been taking such drugs.
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soothsayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 07:37 AM
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1. Yeah, there was a thread about this yesterday, and some good DU-er
predicted it while the shootings were going on.
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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 07:57 AM
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2. damn. good point. Prozac has a bloody Hx, alright.
Thanks for bringing this up.
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 08:00 AM
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3. back in my younger days when I was all in favor of everyone having a bottle of xanax laying around
I took a prozac by deception and i'll tell you it was the longest 3 days or so of my life, it sucked, my skin crawled I had sucidial thoughts and prolly would have if I would have had a gun handy. in fact its the moment in my life I decided without thinking about it that this drug world I was immersed in couldn't go on, that I had to stop. Then on my 54th bday I had to check into the VA for the first time because of DVT and spent a week in the hospital. We had just purchased our home here and I was in the process of stripping it down to the frame so as to start back with all new, plumbing wiring floorplan etc. well my doctor thought I was depressed because of that big worry of mind, our house sitting there and nothing going on so he prescribed paxil. I wasn't aware it is in the same family of drugs as prozac or I wouldn't have taken it. I only took 1/2 of one and I had the same reaction to it as I had had several years previous with prozac. The next visit to the doc I grabbed him by the collar and pushed him up against the wall and told him don't ever give me anything like that again, chewed his ass out good too as I can do so well. So susprised I wasn't arrested on the spot. I do know from personal experience that its not a drug for everyone.
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juno jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 08:09 AM
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4. Xanax is another
I had a 'retrograde' reaction to xanax given to me for a post-partum depression thing. Two pills in and I started thinking about hurting the kids. I am *ahem* experienced and realized it was the drug talking. I sent the kids off to my parents for 3-4 days to get the shit out of my system. I will not touch 'psych' drugs now. I would rather deal with the original feelings.

Because of my experience, this class of drugs troubles me. Especially when psychologists consider such reactions 'rare' and don't really look for them or warn people that they happen. They only knew about mine because I told them. Most people would probably have no clue and think these thoughts came from themselves. Scary to think these are one of the most prescribed drugs out there.
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 08:13 AM
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5. I don't believe it has been confirmed (some stories refute)
that Cho was on prozac or any other anti-depressive drug.
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