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Yes, someone has done the research on this.

Dave Short of Northern California looked at SSRI Stories and found that of the 189 completed murder-suicides, 55 of them were committed by a woman.

If you take into account that women are two and one-half times more likely to be on an antidepressant than men [in general] and also that women only commit 5% of all murder-suicides [see http://www.tcfv.org/tcfv-content/new-study-on-murder-suicide-cases/ from the Violence Policy Center], then in general woman should be committing 12 and one-half % of the completed murder suicides. On www.ssristories.com/index.php they are committing 29% of the completed murder-suicides.

So this shows that a person, either man or woman, [if a woman is twice as likely to commit a completed murde-suicide on an SSRI than they would apply to men also] is a little over twice as likely to commit a completed murder-suicide if they are on an antidepressant. This is statistically significant.

April 24, 2009 - 7:11am

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