Samm,
Coming off of these meds is a real BITCH. They can cause a miriad of medical issues not to mention make underlying psychiatric medications much much worse than they were originally. They are nothing to ■■■■ with. It doesn’t surprise me as to the report you cited. NOT IN THE LEAST. One very important aspect of today’s anti-depressants is the little know issue of Serotonin Syndrome. Most of these meds are SSRI medications. They are serotonin re uptake inhibitor…which means that it blocks the body’s normal process for getting rid of Serotonin. Too much Serotonin causes all kinds of hallucinegenic issue varying from dreams to all out violent and often very real and scary hallucinations. I would venture to guess that this may be some of what you see with kids on Anti-Depressants. But the medical field says very little about it. There are very minor warnings about these medications causing this. Couple them with other medications like seizure meds or pain med…and you get hallucination cocktail that will leave an otherwise normal individual quaking in their shoes.
