Teens on antidepressents?

Do antidepressents really INCREASE suicidal thoughts in teens?

Teens on antidepressents?
Yes they can, as antidepressants effect brain chemistry. Its a hit and miss, cometimes antidepressants dont do what their supposed to and trigger other brain chemicals, making you angry or suicidal/depressed. It took a few medication trials to find one that worked for me, and i started on them at 16. If your a teen and you are prescribed them, take them. Just stick it out for 2 months, as antidepressants take about that long to fully kick in, so if one where to take them and commit suicide a week later, it may have been an influencing factor, but not the root, those thoughts have to have already been there. Celexa is what works for me, i tried effexor but that was bad, and wellbutrin which wasnt so good either, it really depends on you and how your body reacts with it.
Reply:Yes they do and they also


increase the will to want to


harm someone else. These meds are changing the way


you think and may react differently in different people.


I would never let a child of mine take them. Give me the


name of the drug you are taking and I will tell you the possible side effects. Just click on my avatar and you will go to my Profile.
Reply:Yes! See section 2, at http://www.ezy-build.net.nz/~shaneris
Reply:lol, pills. screw pills, the only reason i would see that some1 woould need pills as a teen is because of a chemical imbalance in there brain causing a disorder, other then that talk to a shrink, pill wont solve the world.
Reply:Yes, but not as often as most people seem to believe. I think that studies have come up with the statistic of... 2% (non-medicated kids) to 4% (of young people on antidepressants) ...meaning 4% of kids on these meds will experience an increase in such thoughts. Which also means 96% will not. And it should also be noted that we are talking thoughts and behaviors...but NOT actual suicides.





Ever since the FDA put a "black box" warning on antidepressants...the amount of prescriptions written for young people has declined. During this same time, the suicide rate (completed suicides) for this age group went up.





All meds have the possibility of causing reverse reactions in certain people.
Reply:I have been on anti-depressents since I was 15. It really can. Younger people may often the opposite effect than what the medication is approved for.