Are Anti-Depressants Making Us Violent?

Victoria Hardy

February 09, 2007

I watched my local late news last night, which I rarely do, I find the stories and images of death right before bed inhibits good sleeping, but occasionally I check in to stay informed. The lead story was of a woman who took to shooting in her modest middle class neighborhood, she shot both a neighbor and a deputy and expended over a dozen bullets randomly into houses. The reporter claimed that the brother of the shooter said, off camera, that his sister was taking anti-depressants and just “snapped”. And I thought, Wow. Another one. (

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