Antidepressants and suicide
Here’s a statement of the bleedin’ obvious: ‘depression increases the risk of suicide.’
But the research community is divided as to whether one of the extremely unwanted side-effects of second-generation antidepressants is an actual increase the likelihood of suicide, especially in the initial phases of medication, or not.
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