On SSRI Stories, the drugs are changing the known ratio of men to women who are committing completed murder-suicides.
I started with 189 completed murder-suicides - 55 by women and 134 by men appearing on SSRI Stories. In order to compare these numbers, I must scale them to account for the fact that women are two and one-half times more likely in the general population to be taking an antidepressant.
So I took the number 55 [women an antidepressants] and scaled it to account for this additional two and one-half times [more women an antidepressants] and came up with the number 22. Thus, after the scaling, I ended up with 22 women and 134 men for a total of 156. Looking at 22 women out of 156 people, I get 14.1 percent. But I would have expected, in the general population, to have only 5 percent [ because I have already scaled ] of women committing these completed murder -suicides. The 5% figure comes from a study of the year 2007 [ six months of records nationwide for completed murder-suicides]. http://www.tcfv.org/tcfv-content/new-study-on-murder-suicide-cases/
Thus, I have concluded that women are almost three times as likely [14.1% vs. 5%] to commit a completed murder-suicide using the SSRIs as are men.
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Another way to read this: one out of seven committing completed murder-suicides are women and one out of 20 are men. This is almost three times as many women as men. [7 X 3 = 21]
Of course, SSRI Stories has only changed the ratio. It could be argued that men and woman, both being members of the human race, are equally likely to be effected adversely by SSRIs. Therefore, the men are committing almost three more murder-suicides than they used to commit. If this is true, statistics would show us that there are almost three times more murder-suicides than there were before 1990 [when Prozac came into wide acceptance].
There could be the counter argument that men were less likely to commit a completed murder-suicide because they were on an antidepressant. But if this is true, then we would see a reduction in murder-suicides since 1990 when Prozac gained wide use.
I take sole responsibility both for the math and for what I have concluded here. It is late on Friday afternoon, so there could be errors.
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On SSRI Stories, the drugs are changing the known ratio of men to women who are committing completed murder-suicides.
I started with 189 completed murder-suicides - 55 by women and 134 by men appearing on SSRI Stories. In order to compare these numbers, I must scale them to account for the fact that women are two and one-half times more likely in the general population to be taking an antidepressant.
So I took the number 55 [women an antidepressants] and scaled it to account for this additional two and one-half times [more women an antidepressants] and came up with the number 22. Thus, after the scaling, I ended up with 22 women and 134 men for a total of 156. Looking at 22 women out of 156 people, I get 14.1 percent. But I would have expected, in the general population, to have only 5 percent [ because I have already scaled ] of women committing these completed murder -suicides. The 5% figure comes from a study of the year 2007 [ six months of records nationwide for completed murder-suicides]. http://www.tcfv.org/tcfv-content/new-study-on-murder-suicide-cases/
Thus, I have concluded that women are almost three times as likely [14.1% vs. 5%] to commit a completed murder-suicide using the SSRIs as are men.
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Another way to read this: one out of seven committing completed murder-suicides are women and one out of 20 are men. This is almost three times as many women as men. [7 X 3 = 21]
Of course, SSRI Stories has only changed the ratio. It could be argued that men and woman, both being members of the human race, are equally likely to be effected adversely by SSRIs. Therefore, the men are committing almost three more murder-suicides than they used to commit. If this is true, statistics would show us that there are almost three times more murder-suicides than there were before 1990 [when Prozac came into wide acceptance].
There could be the counter argument that men were less likely to commit a completed murder-suicide because they were on an antidepressant. But if this is true, then we would see a reduction in murder-suicides since 1990 when Prozac gained wide use.
I take sole responsibility both for the math and for what I have concluded here. It is late on Friday afternoon, so there could be errors.
April 24, 2009 - 2:59pmThis Comment
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