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Hello group, I got a rather strange call from a (somewhat unreliable, somewhat alarmist) friend at three in the morning last night. He was listening to some radio show (he hadn’t ascertained the qualifications of the guests) in which *all* SSRIs were being denounced as a "total medical disaster," and futhermore, they made the astonishing claim that all SSRIs were being immediately recalled by the FDA. I am on Serzone, which seems to be working well for me. This drug, along with Celexa, Zoloft, Paxil, and a host of other SSRIs (along with Ritalin), were implicated as death-dealing drugs. (Again, I have no idea, nor did my friend seem to have any idea, exactly who was making these claims.) My friend held the phone up to the radio and I listened to a bit of it (admittedly half asleep). I heard a woman saying that depressed people, contrary to what the APA originally believed, have a *preponderence* of seratonin, not an impoverishment. She went on to say (in discussion with another unidentified woman) that SSRIs are causing agressive behavior, psychosis, an increase in depression, and (allegedly), in thousands upon thousands of cases, sudden death. The woman (a "doctor") made it sound as if this was "breaking news," and in my drowsy state I half expected to turn on CNN in the morning and hear, "SSRIs kill thousands, massive recall!" as their top story. So far, I haven’t heard a thing, and there seems to be no big stir on this newsgroup (and surely if there were anything cataclysmic afoot, you folks would be the first to know, right?). So where is this SSRI alert coming from? Have any of you heard anything about it? Many thanks, Heather "Make my make believe believe in me" Buck, Mills, Stipe

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Not true or accurate… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> I got a rather strange call from a (somewhat unreliable, somewhat alarmist) > friend at three in the morning last night. He was listening to some radio show

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>Sounds like your friend heard one of these dickhead anti-psychiatry med >activists talking about SSRIs. Perhaps Dr. Tracey Anne Blakely or Peter >Breggin. There are a lot of these anti-psychiatry med assholes running around >nowadays

It was Ann Blake Tracy. She was on the Art Bell talk show Sat. night. She sounds like a real idiot.

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Whatever Ann Blake Tracy may be, it’s worth checking out her web site, especially the first-hand SSRI horror stories that people have mailed in: http://www.drugawareness.org/Archives/Survivors/survivor_index.html. I find it hard to believe that she would have taken the trouble to fabricate all of these. Perhaps extreme adverse reactions are statistically rare, but they are not to be taken lightly.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->Sounds like your friend heard one of these dickhead anti-psychiatry med >activists talking about SSRIs. Perhaps Dr. Tracey Anne Blakely or Peter >Breggin. There are a lot of these anti-psychiatry med assholes running around >nowadays > It was Ann Blake Tracy. She was on the Art Bell talk show Sat. night. > She sounds like a real idiot.

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