Letters to the Editor
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For Irving Psychiatrist
You have implied that the black box warning on antidepressants increased the number of suicides in adolescents.
You may also be aware that psychiatrists today are so poorly trained in counseling that removing their primary skill area, prescribing antidepressents, makes a visit to them a problematic event. This is the disgrace of the modern psychiatrist. They are pill pushers if nothing else. And you know very well how addictive these drugs are.
People who stop using them suddenly experience a powerful 'rebound' effect. And what do you tell the patient? Why you tell him that he needs more of the drug to get him right.
Folks out there may want to read books by doctors Breggin and Glenmullen. A wise patient may want to take his drugs, but only in a modest dose for the shortest possible time. Get some counseling too, but not from a modern psychiatrist.