Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of American firearms (2015)

Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by artificialLimbs on Thursday May 26, 2022 @09:02AM (#31517794)

>> what didn’t exist in 1969?

Mass distribution/encouragement of antidepressants.

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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by nradov on Thursday May 26, 2022 @11:17AM (#31519391)

There is evidence that some antidepressants cause "violent suicidal preoccupation". But it's unclear whether that is a significant factor behind the increase in mass shootings.

https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1176/ajp.147.2.2...

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...

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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by renaudg on Friday May 27, 2022 @12:34PM (#31531527)

Again this isn't unique to the US. Shootings are.

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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by Damogran6 on Thursday May 26, 2022 @09:20AM (#31517989)

That doesn’t seem to be a correlative factor. How would medically treating depression increase gun volence?

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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by artificialLimbs on Thursday May 26, 2022 @10:14AM (#31518568)

Go find out how many of these shooters were taking these drugs.

Edit: In case you're busy: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3513220/

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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by tenacious_tuna on Thursday May 26, 2022 @05:33PM (#31523622)

Is there not selection bias in this? That people being treated for mental illness have high incidence of mental illness?

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