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Robin Williams was a famous actor and comedian who died at the age of 63. On August 11, 2014, he was found dead in his home by his assistant. His assistant found him hanging in his stepson’s room. Robin Williams was having trouble sleeping due to his insomnia, anxiety, and Parkinson’s disease, so he had been sleeping in his step-sons room. He was last seen by spouse Susan Williams the night prior to his death. Susan said Robin was looking for his watches the night before because he was worried that something would happen to them. Susan also said that she thought Robin was in a good mood that night because he grabbed his iPad before bed. She thought this was a good sign since Robin hadn’t watched TV or read a book in six months.

Throughout the centuries mental illness has been treated by countless treatments. Modern treatments have created an argument over which treatment options are best. the most debates treatments today are medication and therapy. the argument of medication versus therapy as treatments for mental illness is fairly new. Yet, proponents of both sides have strong arguments stating the advantages of their treatment option. proponents of medication believe pharmacogenetics, tailored treatments, and medication's ability to treat severe disorders makes medication the better treatment option. proponents of therapy believe drug addiction, suicide prevention, and need adaption establishes therapy as the better treatment choice.

Certain medicine can’t be effective on everyone that uses it. After reading the arguments from both side. I do agree that on some degree antidepressants does have effects on suicidal thoughts, but in contrast to the absence of antidepressants usage increase the suicidal rate way higher. Medicine are just a factor that help soothe the person’s condition, the main reason is how the person view the world, themselves, and their future. Therefore, I think that the individuals shouldn’t stop their medication on antidepressants because it does help treat their depression which can also cause suicide if it isn’t treated carefully. Authorities should also keep an eye on them to make sure the medications are going well and doesn’t cause any side effect for the

On the September 11, 2014 issue of the magazine Rolling Stone, writer David Browne came back with a cover story featuring the famous actor behind “Mrs. Doubtfire,” Robin Williams who committed suicide exactly a month before. Being known as a “comedic genius” and having been attributed the stereotypes brought by his title, Williams’ suicide came as a shock not only in the

By identifying the cause of the problem at its roots, we are lead to believe that we may be able to stop it before it sprouts. The murderer, in the case of the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre, was “socially awkward and reserved”, as Ben Stein puts it in his article in The American Spectator (Stein). Perhaps our killer had a similar background to many of our American youth. With increasing trends in teen depression and suicide, and the implementation of more and more prescription anti-depressants and anxiety medications, there are adverse side-effects. Peter Breggin, in an excerpt from his article on Naturalnews.com, states that “psychiatric drugs, including antidepressants, stimulants, and tranquilizing sedatives, can cause violence” (Breggin). While this assumption does hold true in some cases, are we really to be blaming the drug for the acts of the human, already unstable and unreliable? And are we to take a true monster like the Sandy Hook shooter and compare him to any troubled young man, dealt a bad hand and struck with anxiety? Stein includes a quote from John R. Coyne, Jr., “There is evil in the world. It’s beyond mental illness, beyond gun control. It is evil” (Stein). Perhaps to blame the medication for an unspeakable crime is to blame a scapegoat for an act of pure and undisputed

Robert Durst is believed to be the one responsible for deaths of two people, as well the potential involvement of a third death. In the early months of 1982, Durst’s wife, Kathleen, suddenly went missing. Durst did not end up informing authorities about his wife’s state after nearly a week had passed. Authorities were never able to directly relate Durst to the murder as a result of a lack of evidence. In the late months of 2000, Susan Berman, a friend of Roberts was found dead in her California home. Coincidentally, Berman had been murdered in the days before she was to be questioned by authorities about Kathleen's murder In the fall of 2001, while living in Texas, Durst was involved in an altercation with his neighbor, and ultimately murdered

The following point is reinforced by detailing the dynamic between physicians and patients in relation to the contemporary treatment of “depression.” He describes the doctor as an enabler who stands as an “obstacle.” The said doctor prevents the patient’s ability to understand that what we typically refer to as “depression,” is nothing more than the predictable emotions associated with unhappiness after making bad life choices. Dalrymple implies that physicians cannot help most of their “depressed” patients without abandoning their profession’s commitment to objective disinterest in the voluntary choices of patients.

It demonstrates what most people expect an antidepressant to do, when in reality, over a long period of months it only stabilizes serotonin levels. The irony in this cartoon is purposeful because although doctors list off side effects and tell individuals what the medication does, people go into the psychiatrist with a set idea of an immediate cure. When results do not occur within the span of a week, they often reject the drug as successful, and end up back in the waiting room. In this way Baldwin shares Elson’s ideology that Americans living in today’s society do not want to put in the effort needed to cure themselves, they want a drug to do it for them. With media increasingly portraying medication as a magical cure to everyone’s problems, doctors find it increasingly hard to decipher whether or not medication is actually working; furthermore, determining if the individual is depressed or just going through a rough patch

Parents and doctors are scared to give children who are depressed, antidepressants according to Richard Friedman in the article “Teenagers, Medication and Suicide.” The F.D.A. put out warnings on taking antidepressants. Out of the 90 percent of people who commit suicide, they could be diagnosed or could possibly be treated.

In less than a years time, Kyle Warren had been seen by four different medical doctors, each one with their own diagnosis that included autism, bipolar disorder (also known as manic depression), insomnia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD). Kyle's pill regimen kept multiplying, consuming daily harmful cocktail of mind- altering drugs including Risperdal (anti-psychotic), Prozac (antidepressant), Adderall (psycho-stimulant) and two sleeping medicines. Kyle Warren was only eighteen months old at the time (Wilson 11). Kyles story is not rare, in fact, it has became what I refer to as a “to common” case. For that matter, it was a story much like this one that got me interested in the

Whitaker expands on the fact that the mentally ill who use psychiatric drugs suffer serious physical tolls on their bodies, indicating that there are more than just mental consequences to using such drugs. From the 1950’s until now, and in the future, the currently prescribed psychiatric drugs continue to hold a broad range of physical health risks. For example, Whitaker

Antidepressants have been widely used and accepted to treat depression and its related disorders. Sadly, many people commit suicide in America because they are depressed and it is one of the leading causes of death taking over 41,000 lives each year (United States). This is astonishing considering that one in ten Americans is currently taking an antidepressant that is supposed to reduce suicidal thoughts and actions (Rabin). Most doctors and psychiatrists swear by antidepressants claiming that the benefits and effectiveness of them outweigh the risks and side effects, but researchers have started to uncover that this medication may not deliver as promised (Satel). New research has discovered that, “whilst antidepressants offer benefits in both

Three years ago, my best friend was prescribed four different medications for three mental illnesses; bipolar disorder, depression, and ADHD. On these medications I saw a side of him I never wanted to, they made him crazy. I will be against the way psychiatrist treat patients now; they hand out prescriptions like candy. Often children will be put on many medications, but it is very hard to diagnose them with a mental illness or to know if they are just acting the way children do. Many doctors use prozac for a variety of illnesses, but all illnesses need to be treated differently because everybody is different. In addition, in 2006 a 4 year old girl died from accidental overdose on psychiatric medications.

Enacted in late 1997, the “Death With Dignity Act (DWDA)” involves the voluntary self-administration of lethal medications. This process, according to the requirements, does not constitute suicide (“Death With Dignity Act”). In addition to being a resident of Oregon, the patient must be at least 18 years old, capable of making and communicating health care decisions, and diagnosed with a terminal illness that will lead to death within six months. According to recent data, the amount of DWDA prescriptions has steadily increased with average increments of 7 people per year since its enactment, with the exception being a spike from 155 to 218 between 2015 and 2016. The amount of DWDA deaths, however, do not completely match the numbers; although 1,545 received prescriptions between 1997 and 2016, only 991 patients died from ingesting the medication (“Death With Dignity Act”). This brings about an interesting case in the discussion regarding the will to live of these patients, and persuasion to pursue more options. Evidently, not all patients ended their life after receiving the medication to do so, and although their reasons may never be revealed, it is possible to conclude that some number of these circumstances occurred due to a “change of heart”; dissonance in the matter is still present to

During his interview, Kim told the reporters that, "Bittersweet is probably the best way I can describe that night, It was only a year and a month since his passing. We hadn't got our heads around the tragedy of losing him, but at the same time, he was receiving such accolades for what he knew was his best work."