Another teen suicide during initial AD treatment
Philip Dawdy’s post Texas Teen Commits Suicide After Taking Lexapro contains a link to a streaming video of a newscast. At one point in the news story, the dead girl’s father talks about how Kayla was going from highs to lows, typical of most teenagers. Then the newscaster’s voiceover says, “But when the highs became higher and the lows lower, a doctor placed Kayla on Lexapro.”
Now, it’s very likely he could have gotten this wrong. The media gets quite a lot of things wrong. But if he’s right, and Kayla was vacillating between abnormally low lows and abnormally high highs, then it’s not just Forest that her parents should be thinking of suing. Prescribing an antidepressant alone for someone who shows signs of being manic-depressive is criminally stupid, especially if you don’t provide them with adequate information and follow-up care.
I am tired of tragedies happening to families all because of people who should know better, or who should care, and don’t.
May 10th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
i agree with you, i thought the same thing when i read it.
May 11th, 2007 at 12:53 am
Another example of a sad tragedy by carelessness or uncaring pdocs. You know, girls, that it’s up to US…the BP’s to get word about this stuff out.
It’s up to us to educate as many people as possible. Otherwise, no one will ever know the real story about BP and meds.
Keep putting the word out there, polly.