Many of you have heard that so-called “antidepressants” dull the conscience.  So much so that some people commit horrendous acts that they never would have had they not been on the drugs.

Antidepressants and other “mood-altering” drugs affect the soul—the seat of the mind, will and emotions.  That is a very dangerous thing because the mind, will, and emotions must remain under the control of the conscience to provide the moral restraint necessary living as a human being.  When you use a drug to alter one part of the soul (i.e. the mood or emotions), you may also alter the mind and the will, and in the process wrest the soul from the constraints of the conscience.

If you look at each of the cases in recent years where some otherwise average person has done some unspeakable act of violence — mothers drowning their children, children committing crimes, the Columbine shooters and other school shootings, etc. — the perpetrators were all on “antidepressants” or mood-altering drugs.

That certainly doesn’t mean everyone who takes one of these drugs will commit some horrendous crime, but some will.  If not against others, against themselves—hence the dramatically higher incidence of suicide among those on these drugs.  But in almost all cases, these drugs, at the very least, have a spiritually dulling effect.

Here are two case, among many, that could be cited.  They may seem a little graphic, but keep in mind what these drugs are “supposed” to be doing for people, and what the patterns are showing that is “actually” happening.

Teen Gets 30 Years in Zoloft Murder Case
By BRUCE SMITH

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) – A 15-year-old boy who claimed the antidepressant Zoloft drove him to kill his grandparents was found guilty of murder Tuesday and sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Christopher Pittman hung his head as the verdict was read after about six hours of deliberations. He spoke briefly to the court before the sentence was handed down.

“I know it’s in the hands of God. Whatever he decides is what it’s going to be,” Pittman said quietly.

The trial was the first case involving a youngster who says an antidepressant caused him to kill, Pittman’s lawyer said. It came at a time of heightened scrutiny over the use of antidepressants among children.

Pittman cried Tuesday as his father and other family members asked for leniency.

“I love my son with all of my heart,” said Joe Pittman, whose parents were the victims. “And if my mom and dad were here, I know they would be begging you for mercy.”

Defense attorneys had urged the jury to send a message to the nation by blaming Zoloft for the killings. They said the negative effects of Zoloft are more pronounced in youngsters, and the drug affected Pittman so he did not know right from wrong.

“We do not convict children for murder when they have been ambushed by chemicals that destroy their ability to reason,” attorney Paul Waldner said.

But prosecutors called the Zoloft defense a smoke screen, saying the then-12-year-old Pittman knew exactly what he was doing three years ago when he shot his grandparents, torched their house and then drove off in their car.

Prosecutor Barney Giese said the real motivation for the crime was the boy’s anger at his grandparents for disciplining him for choking a younger student on a school bus. And he reminded jurors how the boy carried out the killings – shooting his grandfather in the mouth and his grandmother in her head while both lay sleeping.

“I don’t care how old he is. That is as malicious a killing – a murder – as you are ever going to find,” the prosecutor said. He pointed to Pittman’s statement to police in which he said his grandparents “deserved it.”

Pittman was charged as an adult in the November 2001 murders of Joe Pittman, 66, and his wife Joy, 62.

Zoloft is the most widely prescribed antidepressant in the United States, with 32.7 million prescriptions written in 2003. Last October, the Food and Drug Administration ordered Zoloft and other antidepressants to carry “black box” warnings – the government’s strongest warning short of a ban – about an increased risk of suicidal behavior in children.
02/15/05 13:55

Man Holding Daughter Killed in Road Rage

The Associated Press
Wednesday, August 3, 2005; 12:12 PM  washingtonpost.com

BROCKTON, Mass. — A man lifting his infant daughter out of his car was killed in an apparent case of road rage by a motorist “who obviously exploded” and shot him four times at close range in front of dozens of witnesses, authorities said.

The victim’s 10-month-old girl was covered with blood but uninjured when police found her in a car seat on the floor of the vehicle.

Walter R. Bishop, 60, who was taking medication for depression, was arrested Tuesday and charged with first-degree murder in the death of 27-year-old Sandro Andrade. He pleaded innocent and was ordered held without bail; a hearing was scheduled for Aug. 26.

Plymouth District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz said Bishop had made a calculated decision to “shoot a man in cold blood in broad daylight on the streets of Brockton.”

Police Chief Paul Studenski described it as a case of road rage.

Bishop’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, said Andrade had provoked his client during a traffic altercation.

“We have a homicide that resulted from a circumstance where somebody picked a fight with an individual who obviously exploded,” Reddington said. Bishop, a former soldier and security guard, had recently begun taking two medications for depression, he said.

Bishop told investigators he was driving his wife to the train station when Andrade’s vehicle backed toward him on Main Street, Cruz said. The two exchanged heated words.

“He said his wife was scared, and he said he was angry at that encounter,” Cruz said of Bishop. “He said he made up his mind right there that he had to do something.”

After dropping his wife off, he allegedly returned to the scene of the confrontation, pointed a handgun through an open window and fired, police said.

“Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Four shots. It sounded like a cap gun,” Louis McPhee, the manager of a car wash across the street, told The Boston Globe. “The guy was lying there in his own blood with a hole in his head and his arm still on the baby.”

Bishop left before police arrived, but witnesses gave investigators his license plate number and police found him at his home.

Police said Bishop has a valid handgun license.

Why is the doctor prescribing that “antidepressant”?

So if Anti-Depressants have this kind of effect on people, why are so many doctors prescribing them?  Below is an excerpt from a much longer article.  Read especially those parts that I have highlighted.

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. . . And on June 27th, The New York Times reported, “As states begin to require that drug companies disclose their payments to doctors for lectures and other services, a pattern has emerged: psychiatrists earn more money from drug makers than doctors in any other specialty. How this money may be influencing psychiatrists and other doctors has become one of the most contentious issues in health care.  For instance, the more psychiatrists have earned from drug makers, the more they have prescribed a new class of powerful medicines known as atypical antipsychotics to children, for whom the drugs are especially risky and mostly unapproved.”

CCHR says that even high-ranking psychiatrists such as Dr. Steven Sharfstein, former president of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), have pointed out the financial corruption in their field.  In 2006, Sharfstein admitted, “We have allowed ourselves to be corrupted in this marketplace with lucrative consulting to industry, speaker panels, boards of directors and visits from industry representatives bearing gifts.”

In May 2007, Daniel J. Carlat, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Tufts University, explained further, “Our [psychiatric] field as a whole is progressively being purchased lock, stock, and barrel by the drug companies: this includes the diagnoses, the treatment guidelines, and the national meetings.”

CCHR says the vested interests of psychiatrists underlie the profession’s vehement championing of dangerous psychiatric drugs to the public, particularly the growing market of children, despite international drug regulatory agencies warning that commonly prescribed psychiatric drugs such as antidepressants or amphetamines can cause suicidal ideation, mania, psychosis, homicidal ideation, heart attacks, stroke and sudden death.

Powerful antipsychotic drugs, which have been exposed for causing diabetes and death in patients, are increasingly being prescribed to children, prompting international concern—particularly given that the drugs are some of the most powerful on the market.  Moreover, the subjective nature of psychiatric diagnoses has created a cash cow for psychiatrists who can diagnose anyone as mentally ill based solely on opinion.

Source: Citizens Commission on Human Rights, July 5, 2007