A new study in Psychiatry Research finds that antidepressant use during pregnancy is linked to an increased risk of fetal death. The researchers looked at the data in two different ways: a systematic review of the existing studies and a disproportionality analysis using the WHO safety database (VigiBase).
“We conclude that exposure to [antidepressants], especially during the first trimester of pregnancy, seems to be associated with fetal mortality,” the researchers write.
The research was led by Pierre Desaunay and Fabian Guénolé at Caen University Hospital, France.
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Antidepressants may increase the risk of death, but society conditions the brain of each of us and makes us as useless as stuffed toys, a bunch of confused and frightened self-fattening pigs that can’t stop ourselves destroying the Earth and all our children’s future. And we do it for a utopia of frothy coffee shops, donald trumps and jo bidens, macdonalds and walmart, and a world scarred with roads, shops, factories and offices. By comparison, the news that antidepressants increase the risk of death is really rather welcome. Give me a packet of Fluoxotine please Doc.
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Don’t tell the pharmaceutical companies that the antidepressants increase the risk of death – they’ll try and remarket it to Denmark as a euthanasia pill. Probably they’ll still carry on selling it as an antidepressant on the American market though. And probably no one on the planet will notice. Except me! 😀
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Teacups and cupcakes were modelled on 17th century women’s beasts. In a repressive society in England this is why they flew off the shelves and still do, although we now have lollies and chocolate bars too so that the phalluses can join in the fun. And they can be served dunked in an explosion of white ice-cream in a cone. I guess you would call that the Gesamtkunstwerk of Western culture.
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Finally admitting that the antidepressants are dangerous for young women of child bearing age … Combined with the knowledge of the common symptoms of ‘antidepressant discontinuation syndrome’ (withdrawal) … This really does call for a rethinking of the bad, but relatively new habit, based upon their avarice (according to one pediatrician I spoke with, “it’s too profitable to stop psych drugging the children”) … Of the medical community in their continuing to psych drug, for profit, little children and young adults.
Thank you for helping to point out that this greed (and other nefarious reasons) inspired psych drugging of our children, by our medical community, is both immoral and unwise, Peter.
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