Following the University of Liverpool study on the psychological side-effects of anti-depressants found worse than thought, the journal of the American Medical Association, published the findings of another study on patients with depression assessed for prospective risk for deliberate self-harm (suicide attempt).
Young patients aged 10 to 24 years who began treatment with higher-than-recommended doses of antidepressants were more than twice as likely to try to harm themselves as those who were initially treated with the same drugs at lower, recommended doses – while there was no such effect found in patients aged 25 to 64 years.
Sources:
- Initial Dose of Antidepressant and Suicidal Behavior in Youth, JAMA Internal Medicine, doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.14016, April 28, 2014
- Higher Doses of Antidepressants & Suicidal Behavior, WebMD, mental-health/news/20140428, April 28, 2014