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Medication for Depression may cause suicidal tendencies

According to three studies published in the recent issue of British Medical Journal say that antidepressant drugs may lead to higher incidence of suicides and suicidal attempts.// ....Depression is characterized by a sense of foreboding, guilt, sadness, disinterest in activities, low levels of self-esteem and confidence, and in the extreme form may also manifest itself through self-harm and suic...

Young Patients On Antidepressants Found To Be Associated With Suicidal Tendencies

According to a recent study researchers say those in the early stages of antidepressant medication may be associated with // an increased risk of suicidal behavior . ..For the study more than 87,000 patients with depression and other clinical conditions were studied. Patients taking SSRIs were twice as likely to attempt suicide than those taking placebo. Researchers say they found no difference...

Suicidal Tendencies May Be Treated With Cognitive Therapy

People who had attempted to commit suicide repeatedly can now be treated effectively with cognitive //therapy programs. This procedure had been found to give better results than the other treatments used for treating people with such problems. The research findings were published in the current issue of JAMA. ....Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia had conducted a random...

Support and Care to Grieving Parents Can Offset Suicidal Tendencies

According to papers released in the current week’s edition of BMJ, parents who have taken care of a really sick and dying child at home are so depressed after the child’s death that there is every chance that they will attempt // to end their lives, by consuming overdoses of potent painkillers, used to alleviate the child’s pain during illness. .. ..Authors of the papers feel there is very little...

Certain antidepressant drugs associated with pronounced suicidal tendencies

Antidepressants such as Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft, prescribed to the elderly, has shown a tendency of inducing suicidal thoughts in its recipients//, especially in the first month of its use, as compared to other types of medication to treat depression. ....Earlier studies had shown the prevalence of suicidal tendencies amongst children and teenagers prescribed drugs, called as selective serotonin...

Connection between alcohol consumption and suicidal tendencies

The Center of Addiction and Mental Health has said, there appears to be a connection between the escalation in the consumption of alcohol and the increasing rate of suicides.// The findings of this study revealed that even a one-litre increase in the consumption of alcohol caused almost an 11 to 39% rise in the suicide rate. .. .."Alcohol tends to have disinhibiting properties," scientist Robert...

Who are Prone to Suicidal Tendencies?

A significant academic insight into the factors that enhance the risk of suicide was published in the British Journal of Psychiatry.// ....The research, a unique endeavor of its kind, was led by Dr Vincent Riordan, a consultant psychiatrist from New Craigs Hospital in Inverness, indicates a relationship between the number of children born to a woman and the risk of suicide on the later child. A...

Teen Tendencies: 'Vicedom' Enthralls Teens Who Smoke

This is probably one more reason why teenage years are perceived as 'tumultuous'. When teens take to smoking, it is like the Pandora's Box has opened. //Such teens are prone to misusing alcohol and drugs, in comparison to their no'vice' contemporaries, a recent insight indicates. ....The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse evaluated the alcohol and drug abuse tendencies among 15- to 19-year-olds,...

Genetic Tests to Reveal ‘substance Abuse’ Tendencis

Studying the genetic make-up using blood samples to detect certain diseases, with a view to customizing treatment, has been in practice//. Now, scientists have gone a bit further to design evaluation methods based on such existing tests that might reveal the latent tendencies in people to become victims of substance abuse or suffer antisocial personality disorder. ..Such tests would not dictate...

Link Between Migraine Attacks in Teens and Suicidal Tendencies

Those of you budding youth, who suffer migraine attacks, beware. Recent research has shown the propensity of teen migraine sufferers to be prone// to depression and suicidal tendencies. They could also be suffering other psychiatric ailments like panic disorder or depression. ....Teens suffering migraines are prone to depressive tendencies bordering on suicide, compared to those who don’t suffer...