| The bottom line is that SSRIs can and do change patients, sometimes
for the worse. It never ceases to amaze me that drug companies can argue
(with a straight face) that their SSRIs are powerful enough to alter the course
of a deadly, recalcitrant depressive disorder, but never (to hear them
tell it) adversely affect the delicate psychological and physiological balance
of seriously ill individuals. Their claim flies in the face of commonsense
and much of the scientific evidence that has accumulated. The truth is
that SSRIs do change many ill people. Often they save their lives;
however, occasionally, SSRIs kill people who would not have died
otherwise. --RONALD WM. MARIS, PH.D.
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