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Originally Posted by Mike Irwin

once again just about any medications can cause severe side effects.

So if a side effect of SSRIs happens to be (in very rare cases) homicidal behavior, that's just another severe side effect? Nothing to see here, move along?

Not directly on-topic, but there's an interesting report about the VA tech shooter, available by googling for "mental health history of cho site:virginia.gov".

Originally Posted by Mike Irwin

I would like to see someone like Breggin or Tom Cruise ( h is intense training as an actor makes him qualified to comment on such matters apparently) locked in a room with a violent, delusional schizophrenic and see how long it takes them to ask for psychiatric drugs for their charge.

Tom Cruise's opinion on psychiatry is driven by his cult religion. I don't think Breggin would object to the use of drugs to manage your hypothetical patient, but he'd probably argue that long-term treatment should focus on therapy rather than drugs.