How do you stop suicide, for individuals and or populations? I looked up antidepressants. They don’t look so promising. Brief summary follows. Feel free to skip it.
All pharmacological antidepressants have scary side effects. All of them, sometimes individually or sometimes in combination, put you at risk for serotonin toxicity. Most all increase risk of sucide relative to no treatment. Tricyclic antidepressant are old, scary drugs; rarely prescribed. MAOIs kind of scary. Moclobemide is one of the newer, safer MAOIs. Weird dietary reactions. Still not as safe as SSRIs. NDRIs, include Wellbutrin: commonly prescribed. Adverse effects include seizures and cardiovascular events. Less safe than SSRIs. Don’t know enough. SSRIs are most commonly prescribed. They include Zoloft, Paxil, Prozac, and Celexa. Efficacy comparable to placebo. Adverse effects of sexual disfunction, nausea, high blood pressure, lots more. SNRIs are newer than SSRIs. comparable efficacy to SSRIs. Include effexor and cymbalta. Effexor has especially high suicide risk. Discontinuing use of SSRIs and SNRIs abruptly might have adverse effects. Sadness, irritability, agitation, dizziness, etc.
How do you stop suicide, for individuals and or populations? I looked up antidepressants. They don’t look so promising. Brief summary follows. Feel free to skip it.
All pharmacological antidepressants have scary side effects. All of them, sometimes individually or sometimes in combination, put you at risk for serotonin toxicity. Most all increase risk of sucide relative to no treatment. Tricyclic antidepressant are old, scary drugs; rarely prescribed. MAOIs kind of scary. Moclobemide is one of the newer, safer MAOIs. Weird dietary reactions. Still not as safe as SSRIs. NDRIs, include Wellbutrin: commonly prescribed. Adverse effects include seizures and cardiovascular events. Less safe than SSRIs. Don’t know enough. SSRIs are most commonly prescribed. They include Zoloft, Paxil, Prozac, and Celexa. Efficacy comparable to placebo. Adverse effects of sexual disfunction, nausea, high blood pressure, lots more. SNRIs are newer than SSRIs. comparable efficacy to SSRIs. Include effexor and cymbalta. Effexor has especially high suicide risk. Discontinuing use of SSRIs and SNRIs abruptly might have adverse effects. Sadness, irritability, agitation, dizziness, etc.
What else can be done? Are hotlines effective?