The Negative Effects Of Depressants

Let’s start with alcohol. Alcohol fits in the category of a depressant. Depressants are drugs, such as alcohol, that reduces neural activity and slow body functions. Many people confuse alcohol as a stimulant because it can cause people to act more hyper but low amounts of alcohol relaxes the drinker by slowing the nervous system activity. Larger amounts of

Thirdly another serious effect alcohol has is suicide. More than "150,000 students develop an alcohol-related health problem (Hingson et al., 2002[->0]), and between 1.2 and 1.5 percent of students indicate that they tried to commit suicide within the past year due to drinking or drug use (Presley et al., 1998[->1]). People who have any sort of mental condition such as depression, manic depressive and anxiety should not be drinking alcohol at all. It's simply not good for a mentally ill person. "Alcohol has been found to lower serotonin and norepinephrine levels" Meaning that by having the serotonin levels lowered it will actually make the person even more depressed and higher risk for sucide.

Lastly, what effects to antidepressants have on mood, behavior, and suicidal tendencies? In her article, ‘The Hidden Harm of Antidepressants’, Diana Kwon, a science writer with a Master’s degree for McGill University in neuroscience, she reviews several studies about the use of antidepressants, and had found the safety data on some of these drugs have been withheld from the public. She mentions research done in Copenhagen by some researchers at the Nordic Cochrane Center, and how they discovered that “pharmaceutical companies were not presenting the full extent of serious harm in clinical study reports…” (Kwon para 2). These clinical study reports are then used by people at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve or deny new

In 2005 the Center of Disease Control and Prevention 's (CDC’s) National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) tracked Americans using antidepressants for three years. The study concluded in 2008 that more than 1 in 10 Americans ages 12 and older have used an antidepressant drug. This study comes in the wake of a heated debate in the media about the effectiveness of antidepressants treating depression. Last year, antidepressants were the second most commonly prescribed medication, right behind drugs directed to lower cholesterol. With so many people in the United States relying on these drugs, it is easy to question if they are just expensive, overused placebos.

Children and adults should avoid antidepressants and find other alternatives to help alleviate the effects of clinical depression. Clinical depression can be caused in many ways, and people could handle depression in a variety of ways. Approximately 121 million citizens have depression ranging from all genders, ages, and backgrounds, (Moreh, O’Lawrence 293). Antidepressants have side effects that have been known to cause worse depression in those who take them. Unfortunately, there isn’t much research dealing with children and teenagers because of the sensitivity to doing studies on children (Baber). There should be other alternatives used to sway people from becoming dependent on antidepressants. According to David Hellerstein, professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Columbia University Medical Center, behavior therapy is a good example of an alternative. Antidepressants could become addictive and cause worse depression than a patient had previously.

Antidepressants have a history of causing violent side effects, including suicide and homicide in those consuming the prescribed drugs. Many antidepressants that are prescribed to those with a mental illness come packaged with a warning label that reads: “New or worsening depression; thinking about harming or killing yourself, or planning or trying to do so; extreme worry; agitation; panic attacks; difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep; aggressive behavior; irritability; acting without thinking; severe restlessness; and frenzied abnormal excitement." This warning label is a most know for school officials who are aware of students dealing with a mental illness. Statistics show that five of the top 10 most violence-inducing drugs were found

Depressants “depress” activity in the central nervous system. Depressants lowers your body basic functions as well as your neural activities. Alcohol a conscious altering drug slows down neural processing, disturbs REM sleep which is one of the five stages of sleep. Alcohol also lowers your heart rate, reaction time, as well as your ability to form memories.

Alcohol – Increases anxiety and depression, interacts with the effectiveness of the antidepressant, heavy drowsiness, decreased motor skills, poor judgment, increase in blood pressure if combined with MAOIs

Research Question: Are antidepressants being over prescribed, if so what other options do doctors have and what should they be considering?

Recreational depressants: The two most common depressants people use recreationally are alcohol and marijuana. Alcohol, though it is legal, kills more people yearly than any of the other drugs combined (Lopez par. 21). It is known that long term alcohol users will experience lethal liver effects, but they also run into problems with things such as more wrinkles in their face, glassy eyes, and dried out hair among

I've been a depressed person for years, I've been on antidepressants since being raped at 9. I grew up in a home with abuse, verbal, physical and mental. I grew up with drug addicts raising me, there for I've raised all my siblings and have never had a stable home, or stable people in my life. I have a very sensitive soul, and take a lot to heart. I try hard to be a strong, a good parent, wife and good friend. I treat others as I wish I could be treated by others, I am way to nice, Sometimes this causes more pain for me than It should because I get to attached, the "best friends" I thought I had have been a back bone for me, besides my husband. Someone who has always been a supporter of the strong me. I am a passive aggressive person and I

I know that antidepressants produce side effects that can turn out to be worse than what they are being used to treat, such side effects can include suicidal thoughts/actions, insomnia, and anxiety. Antidepressants are used to treat disorders such as anxiety disorder, depression, and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Those who suffer from depression use antidepressant and they use more than one antidepressant because if the first antidepressant doesn’t help, the second, or third possibly will help and this is how the number of antidepressants that you have to take grows. These medications have side effects that can cause problem at first, but then with time the person will start to feel improvement in their body and their immune system will accept them.

Common types of medication include POM (prescription only medication) which can be obtained from a pharmacist only if prescribed by a doctor. These could include anti-depressants which are very common. Anti-depressants work by selecting receptors in the brain and controls levels of serotonin. They come under the group 'SSRIS' (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors). Over the counter medicines (OTC) may include things like paracetamol or ibuprofen, which are everyday painkillers. Something like paracetamol inhibits the production of pain and inflammation-causing chemicals called prostaglandins.

They slow the body down. They relax, tranquilize, relieve pain and induce sleep. One may say and do things that they would never do under normal circumstances. When these depressants bare abused they can slow do0wm body functions such as breathing to an extent that a person may pass out or even lapse into a coma.