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**Black H@t**

Thickened arteries, heart disease, depression, suicide, and now, we can add bleeding of the brain to the long list of side effects of antidepressants. Though the risk is admittedly very small, researchers declared on Wednesday that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) may raise the risk of hemorrhagic strokes, which happen when the brain bleeds.

SSRIs include a wide variety of common antidepressents, including Prozac, Zoloft, Celexa, and Paxil. These drugs are also linked to an increased risk of stomach bleeding.

Platelets Can’t Clot, Hemorrhage

After analyzing 16 previous studies involving over 500,000 patients, researchers determined that SSRI users were 40 to 50 percent more likely to suffer bleeding of or around the brain. The researchers were not, however, able to collect other relevant data, like subjects’ smoking and drinking habits, diet, and whether they had diabetes. Their findings were published in the journal Neurology.

Although lead researcher Dr. Daniel G. Hackam of Western University in London, Ontario says that we “can’t infer cause and effect from this,” it isn’t exactly an unreasonable association. Blood cells (platelets) have difficulty clumping and clotting in the presence of SSRIs, causing the patient’s platelet function to stumble soon after taking SSRIs. This may be why patients experienced the greatest risk of hemorrhage within the first few months of taking the drugs.

People already at risk of brain hemorrhage would do well to stay away from SSRIs, Hackam added, as well as those on medications that reduce clotting like Coumadin or an aspirin-Plavix combination.

Psychiatrists and Financial Conflicts of Interest

It’s worth noting that Hackam also says that these drugs are, overall, “quite safe.” Perhaps he’s neglected to look at the Emory University School of Medicine’s findings that antidepressants thickened arteries 400 percent more than aging, which is the foremost factor of athersclerosis. Still other studies indicate that Cymbalta and other antidepressants cause 1 in 5 patients to feel worse than when administered placebos.

Why, then, are so many patients treated with powerful psychotactive drugs instead of a personalized combination of vitamin D, probiotis, diet, acupuncture, yoga, and other natural remedies? Perhaps because 70 percent of panel members to the 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders have financial ties to pharmaceutical companies.

Source:
http://www.activistpost.com/2012/10/anti...brain.html

**Coolchick**

well thats just fantastic..

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 128381 10-19-2012 08:22 PM

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-...epressants

**Ghost of 51:50**

I guess most of LoP is pretty much screwed then.

**Up YOURS Govt!**

Black H@t Wrote:

Thickened arteries, heart disease, depression, suicide, and now, we can add bleeding of the brain to the long list of side effects of antidepressants. Though the risk is admittedly very small, researchers declared on Wednesday that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) may raise the risk of hemorrhagic strokes, which happen when the brain bleeds.

SSRIs include a wide variety of common antidepressents, including Prozac, Zoloft, Celexa, and Paxil. These drugs are also linked to an increased risk of stomach bleeding.

Platelets Can’t Clot, Hemorrhage

After analyzing 16 previous studies involving over 500,000 patients, researchers determined that SSRI users were 40 to 50 percent more likely to suffer bleeding of or around the brain. The researchers were not, however, able to collect other relevant data, like subjects’ smoking and drinking habits, diet, and whether they had diabetes. Their findings were published in the journal Neurology.

Although lead researcher Dr. Daniel G. Hackam of Western University in London, Ontario says that we “can’t infer cause and effect from this,” it isn’t exactly an unreasonable association. Blood cells (platelets) have difficulty clumping and clotting in the presence of SSRIs, causing the patient’s platelet function to stumble soon after taking SSRIs. This may be why patients experienced the greatest risk of hemorrhage within the first few months of taking the drugs.

People already at risk of brain hemorrhage would do well to stay away from SSRIs, Hackam added, as well as those on medications that reduce clotting like Coumadin or an aspirin-Plavix combination.

Psychiatrists and Financial Conflicts of Interest

It’s worth noting that Hackam also says that these drugs are, overall, “quite safe.” Perhaps he’s neglected to look at the Emory University School of Medicine’s findings that antidepressants thickened arteries 400 percent more than aging, which is the foremost factor of athersclerosis. Still other studies indicate that Cymbalta and other antidepressants cause 1 in 5 patients to feel worse than when administered placebos.

Why, then, are so many patients treated with powerful psychotactive drugs instead of a personalized combination of vitamin D, probiotis, diet, acupuncture, yoga, and other natural remedies? Perhaps because 70 percent of panel members to the 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders have financial ties to pharmaceutical companies.

Source:
http://www.activistpost.com/2012/10/anti...brain.html

WOW!! Big pharma is just another terrorist cell in my book

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 125525 10-19-2012 08:24 PM

good grief the pharmas are torturous and murderous. doomed

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 125525 10-19-2012 08:25 PM

Ghost of 51:50 Wrote:

I guess most of LoP is pretty much screwed then.

what a nasty thing to say. Yak

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 119527 10-19-2012 08:35 PM

Pin it.

**Ghost of 51:50** · (This post was last modified: 10-19-2012 08:52 PM by Ghost of 51:50.)

LoP Guest Wrote:

Ghost of 51:50 Wrote:
I guess most of LoP is pretty much screwed then.
what a nasty thing to say.

**Disturbed nli** Not the real one! User ID: 1 10-19-2012 08:56 PM

Depopulation At Its Finest

**Disturbed nli** Not the real one! User ID: 1 10-19-2012 11:44 PM

Disturbed nli Wrote:

Depopulation At Its Finest

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 117241 10-19-2012 11:50 PM

Yes because an ingredient is fluorine and let's see. Take that everyday for months/years and it builds up in the brain leaving it calcified. Well no shit your brain will bleed you just put a tumor in it. Congrats though you're... not depressed??? Hiding3

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 113156 10-20-2012 12:14 AM

Information like this makes me sad. I wonder if there is something I could take for it.

Yes, it was a joke, but also kept this on the front page for another few minutes.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 128552 10-20-2012 06:25 PM

this is not true. i've been on anti depressants since Katrina hit, and I'm just fine Cheer

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 128381 10-20-2012 06:29 PM

LoP Guest Wrote:

this is not true. i've been on anti depressants since Katrina hit, and I'm just fine

Right only in LOP town does "could" equate to "for sure".

They will spit that 1 in 5 or 6 or something is on anti depressants but ignore that when it comes to this do