Debt and Depression Cause of Murder/Suicide in Maryland

How sad - money is often the root of many problems for lots of families.

Or maybe it is the result of the side-effects of anti-depressants, which we know help cause homicidal behavior in younger men and women.

If he had killed the family and moved on, the problem would have been narcissism. He killed himself. I think it is his medication.

Antidepressants don't "help cause homicidal behavior" in younger men and women--Rather, suicidal thoughts and potentially hostile behavior can be a rare side effect, just as one might drop dead from a birth control induced blood clot.  What's more, if these side effects do occur, it's the ideation of suicide--the 'thinking' about suicide, etc.  In a sense, suicide is a side effect of a side effect, wherein the SSRI's cause suicide ideation, and the ideation may later lead to actual suicide.  What's more, if these side effects are occurring via SSRI's, that means the person is taking their pills, which means they are compliant, which means they are talking to a doctor, which means they will have discussed this issue--which is...well...something I guess. 

And hey.  I covered a murder last Summer where the guy wasn't taking his medication, causing him to go off the deep end.  It's definitely a complicated issue. 

"Antidepressants don't "help cause homicidal behavior" in younger men and women-"

Evidence exists that anti-depressants, especially in teens and young men, who are suicidal, may kill someone.

Debates have gone on about the difference in biochemistry and about the lack of development of the brain, the linking of reasoning centers to emotional centers that is finished by age 30.

I'll only disagree with you on this:

"but they tend to hide this information from us.. it's buried in the fine print and you can bet no doctor is going to make a point to tell you"

This is absolutely not true.  A doctor has absolutely no incentive to keep this information from you, and to do so would violate the Hippocratic oath.  

The correlation between anti-depressants and thoughts of suicide is not buried in the fine print, moreover.  Any Wikipedia page, web MD page, any pharmacist and any doctor will absolutely tell the patient of this possible side effect.

Additionally, the printed information leaflet that accompanies any filled prescription lists all of the drugs side effects, reactions, and so on.

Also, the first sentence of this article says he suffered from mental illness.  It seems odd to me that we're jumping right over his apparent mental illnesses and immediately blaming the medication, of which we know nothing about.  

I think we're arguing semantics, here, with that sentence of yours we keep quoting.  I understand what you mean now.  I thought you were making a very bold "antidepressants cause homicide" statement.  I do understand that a small portion of those on anti-depressants may suffer from suicidal/violent tendencies as a result of the drug.   I just thought, at first, you were saying the drug outright causes homicide and the like.

Good post, though I can barely stand reading of such violence!  Why did this woman and her children have to suffer the consequences of her husband and the father's problems?  There were other possible solutions to the problems!

You're making want to read some Gatsby...

They say there is a very fine line between madness and sanity, think this poor soul crossed over that line,resulting in a most gruesome and fearful way. Desperation can lead people anywhere. Another very sad end to what was most likely a very close family.God love them all, including the family left to grieve such a tragic loss.

Every time something like this happens I think how close we all are to such possibilities, whether as ourselves or in respect to family members. Why one person turns to such a dark tragic ending while another finds the light and a way to cope is a mystery, most medical and spiritual healers have yet to explain.