Mental health related deaths have skyrocketed over 50% in last 3 years – what’s behind the surge?

Monday, February 13, 2017
By Paul Martin

by: Isabelle Z.
NaturalNews.com
Monday, February 13, 2017

A shocking figure out of England shows that unexpected deaths among mental health patients have soared by nearly 50 percent in just three years. The term “unexpected deaths” can refer to suicide, misadventure, or neglect.

Luciana Berger, the country’s former shadow health minister, said she was “ashamed” to live in a country that allowed this to happen. From 2012-2013, 2,067 unexpected deaths were reported by the 33 mental health trusts that provided data; that figure had climbed to 3,160 by 2015-2016.

While serious funding cuts for mental health services over the past four years are shouldering some of the blame, this epidemic is also being seen in other countries, including the U.S. Psychiatry Professor David Healy points out that the common antidepressants known as SSRIs are responsible for a sobering 4,000 additional suicides every year in America and Europe, about 250 of which are in the U.K. In fact, he believes that a quarter of patients who take SSRIs end up feeling more anxious than they did before.

A review published in the British Medical Journal showed antidepressants led to a higher risk of suicide and aggressive behaviors in all age groups, particularly those under the age of 18, who had double the risk of suicide! It is also no coincidence that many of the perpetrators of high-profile mass shootings were taking these drugs when they carried out their deadly attacks.

Compounding the issue is the fact that some doctors seem to hand out these pills like candy, with an estimated 41 million Americans taking at least one type of antidepressant. The global market for these drugs will exceed $13 billion by the year 2018, according to estimates.

It makes no sense whatsoever that doctors, many of whom presumably enter their field out of a desire to help people, could continue to prescribe these dangerous medications. Unfortunately, the pharmaceutical companies that make these drugs go out of their way to skew research in their favor and cover up their ill effects.

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