At 10:49 AM 05/17/2000 -0400, you wrote:
> actually, i find that sometimes raw stimulants work pretty well.
>wasn't there some data that consumption of caffeine is associated with
>lower suicide risk?
IAN: Interesting point, and a quick scan
of PubMed indicates that you're right about
caffeine. In fact, Ritalin, also a stimulant,
has been prescribed for depression. This may
suggest that the association of suicide with
SSRIs might be a result of interactions with
serotonin, not a stimulating or "activating"
effect per se. One study found that Prozac
caused some without depression and with no
history of suicidal ideation to suddenly
become suicidal, so much so that some test
subjects had to be taken out of the study:
http://guardianunlimited.co.uk/Print/0,3858,3973045,00.html
I think that this study was just published
in: Primary Care Psychiatry, 2000 6(1). But
there's not yet an abstract available for it.
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