There is real behavioral evidence for this though and it is borne out by the research. It isn't just because they correlate that we can safely assume this.
They had to look at suicide rates and reports of depression victims without medication and with, before and after, over and over with hundreds and perhaps thousands of different studies to be sure. It wasnt just "o shit most people killing themselves are on antidepressants!"
There are tests you can do to the data to see how pronounced the causal effect is, to see if the increase could be due to random chance or if it's caused by something...
You simply can not assume because two things correlate that one is causing the other. I don't know how much more simply I can explain it.
(By the way, the same methodology shows that these drugs CAUSE decreased violence in subjects. DECREASED.)
Yes, yes they have.
There is real behavioral evidence for this though and it is borne out by the research. It isn't just because they correlate that we can safely assume this.
They had to look at suicide rates and reports of depression victims without medication and with, before and after, over and over with hundreds and perhaps thousands of different studies to be sure. It wasnt just "o shit most people killing themselves are on antidepressants!"
There are tests you can do to the data to see how pronounced the causal effect is, to see if the increase could be due to random chance or if it's caused by something...
You simply can not assume because two things correlate that one is causing the other. I don't know how much more simply I can explain it.
(By the way, the same methodology shows that these drugs CAUSE decreased violence in subjects. DECREASED.)