We know that the Japanese have issued warning labels on their antidepressant drugs regarding antidepressants CAUSING violence.

And we also know that Dr. Richard Kapit, formerly of the FDA, testified at this Christopher Pittman Zoloft trial that the boy was "involuntarily intoxicated" by Zoloft.

There are over 200 cases of Zoloft alone causing murder & mayhem on www.SSRIstories.com

On SSRI Stories there are over 1,000 cases of murder on SSRIs & SNRIs if the school shootings, workplace violence shootings and road rage murders are counted.

Still, we don't know????

I had nervous breakdowns in Spring 2005 due to abuses from my husband and was threatened by him that "I should die in mental hospital". I never had mental illness nor any of my family has. I was forced to be in a mental hospital where I was forced to take medications (I do not know the names) which had side effects on me the very day including suicidal - I had never wanted to kill myself - and I had an urge to hang myself so I rushed to the bathroom to do so and the sink I was standing on fell. Days later when I was taken to see a therapist at Kaiser, she ordered that I be sent to mental hospital only because I told her that I would not like to take medications. This time I was completely horrified and I was living in fear and torture. For over two years after I was released from the hospital (I stayed there for over three weeks and was forced to take medications) I lost speech capabilities for over 2 years and was like in "living coma". Everyday I had the urge to kill/hit people including myself but I refrained myself with tremendous efforts. I recovered on July 12, 2007. I was taking care of my baby boy every day, feeding him milk, carrots and olives as I could not cook. My boy was still on bottles when he was almost three but once I recovered I fed him good food and took him off bottles within two weeks of loving training. I really suspected that it was the medication that gave me the suicidal and wanting-to-kill/hit urge, as there were just no other correlations.

Another note, if there is a good organization out there that advocates human rights for the mental ill, or anyone who has information or advices, I am seeking any help from you as I lost custody of my three dear children to their father, who is addicted to gambling, pornography, womanizing, prostitution and is very abusive. The judge has such a prejudice and discrimination that she did not give me fair hearings and barely gave me any spousal support, even he is making 6 figures with all my support including putting him through graduate school. I was married for 21 years and gave up a very successful corporate career to be a stay-home mom in 2001 (I was already making over 6 figures in 1999). Please help me to protect my dear children, who have been neglected, unsupervised and uncared for, and also abused, manipulated and controlled, living with fear, hurt, pains, ...

I posted a comment about Chris under "Judge Allows Zoloft Defense in Assault Case," an earlier post by Philip. If you are interested in some of the salient details of Chris's case please go read it. http://www.furiousseasons.com/archives/2009/08/judge_allows_zoloft_defense_in_assault_case.html

FaithJoyHope - Good luck. Your children's situation is terrible. My guess is you would need a lawyer to guide you through the types of care needed to establish you as a decent, capable mother. This might include things like maintaining steady work, having a steady involvement as a volunteer somewhere, and getting regular psychological assessments, NOT counseling/therapy, documenting that you are free from the problems that you have had in the past. This might help make the case that the psych meds, not your inherent psychological weaknesses, led to the suicidal behavior. Also - if you have any psychological issues, do not pile your medical records up with counseling and medications unless this really cannot be avoided. For depression, anger, PTSD, etc., it is possible for some to do self-help, to gain benefit from informal support groups, or to get "therapeutic" benefit from friends, hobbies, etc. Journaling and focused Bible study can also help. This would be a way to avoid a continuous paper trail of mental health care while coping with any emotional problems that are lingering, since the hospital stay plus dealing with the husband etc. sounds like enough to make anyone crazy. Hopefully, someone will know of an advocacy group to help. If you are in decent shape, you should be raising those kids.