Gualtieri, C. Thomas. Johnson, Lyn G. (2006). Antidepressant Side Effects in Children and Adolescents. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, 16(1-2), 147-57. Retrieved February 25, 2008, from Research Library database. (Document ID: 1035333831).
In Antidepressant Side Effects in Children and Adolescents, Gualtieri and Johnson present a great deal of good information regarding antidepressants used in a clinical study for fourteen months on 128 patients in North Carolina. Their study did, in fact, show that the antidepressants in question, the SSRIs, did seem to increase suicidal thoughts and behaviors in 36 of the 128 patients. Suicidal thoughts includes ideation, threats, attempts and self injury that isn’t always suicidal like cutting or picking. The main drugs that seemed to have more effects than the rest were venlafaxine, fluvoxamine, and fluoxetine, better know as Prozac. However, 34 out of the 36 patients that were observed to have these symptoms were able to manage there behaviors through either a total change in medication or a smaller dosage of the original drug.
This was a great source, as it supplies some of the greatest data and tables to support the argument that these SSRI drugs do induce suicidal thinking. It also proves that it can be controlled when taken care of in a timely manner.
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