A perplexing finding about suicide rates:
As many know, the CDC has reported that the suicide rates have jumped since 2004, especially in young people, and especially in girls aged 10-14. While this is noteworthy in itself, it is also near the time when the first black box warnings concerning the link between antidepressants and suicide came out.
The controversy about antidepressants and suicide has a long history, but it can be summarized with a few key points:
First, even in the early psychoanalytic days, experts observed that people often attempted suicide as they began to improve from depression. Consider that suicide attempts are often highest immediately following discharge from a hospital. The explanation was that their motivation, or cognition, improved before their sadness; so while at first they were too depressed to do anything-- including suicide, as they began to improve they got well enough to plan and execute a suicide.

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