A Son’s Story of His Father’s Antidepressant Treatment and Suicide

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0:00 my father, uh who, you know, was at home. I was away from away from home at that point. Uh he'd sort of taken an antidepressant. He went to his doctor one winter. He just was not feeling well. Um he knew that he needed some help. He wasn't suicidal at that point or anything like that. Um he just wasn't feeling happy. And so he went to his doctor. She put him on an antidepressant, an SSRI. Um he was switched four or five different times within four or five six months. So pretty quick. And after that time, that last time, you

0:38 know, it was roller coaster ups and downs. Not like anything like really volatile. He was peaceful and fine with us. Never, you know, snapped like some people do on pharmaceuticals or never lost his mind, um you know, in any public way to us. So it definitely came out of nowhere in some ways. Uh he took his life. Uh we do know for sure like it was pharmaceutically induced. It really messed up his mind. Um we were speaking to him. But his eyes were there, you know, but like he's not there. It's that sort of glazed over look that

1:13 pharmaceuticals can do to people. So I've gotten up close and personal look at what can happen and the the terrible things that can happen with pharmaceuticals. And so for me that was kind of the beginning of my awakening into all of these things that, you know, we know about.