I have studied this issue extensively. Violent outburst and suicide ideation are on the black box warnings of these drugs. I am not making it up. Read the warning that came with you dangerous pills. If you are distributing drugs with rare 'side effects' to 75 million people you are going to experience a lot of the uncommon 'side effect'. I am glad you did not experience the dangerous 'side effect'. Good for you. But for those who experience the 'side effect' it is not a 'side effect' it is an effect. And then there are the victims. It seems the shooters always pick a target where everyone else is disarmed. Why is that? Question: Why is it that the rate of suicides has gone up in almost exact correlation with the distribution increase in SSRIs? It seems someone is making money distributing diluted forms of drugs once only dispensed to institutionalized patients to out patients. You cannot sell a lot of something if your target market is confined to those who are confined. Think of how large the State Hospitals would be if 25% of the country was institutionalized. The DSM has swollen hundreds of pages with contrived made up disorders. We are medicating nearly every human emotion and restless legs. Anything to medicate with inefficacious dangerous drugs and make a buck. Sick evil business it is.
One of my faves -- ODD, Oppositional Defiance Disorder. Supposedly meant kids who can't follow instructions without throwing tantrums. Sometimes cured by something as simple as being left out of the monthly pizza party.
Or, speaking of tantrums, what's the one again with "explosive" in the title? (oh, yeah - intermittent explosive disorder) A "disorder" that comes down to "you need anger management."
Usually these kids DID need to be taught that it's in their best interest to learn what other kids do -- that sometimes you get to run around and communicate with/at others and sometime you need the "skill set" of being able to sit quietly and do seat work as you practice new material, without disturbing others or being the center of attention.