Once she was stable, Anna was admitted to McLean Hospital, where she was described as having had a "paradoxical" reaction to Prozac. A nurse told her one of McLean's psychopharmacologists, Dr. Teicher, had written about patients like Anna who became suicidal on Prozac. She was put on a different type of antidepressant, which did not precipitate the same reaction.
Prozac Backlash by Joseph Glenmullen MD, page 140

"Many research and case studies demonstrate a link between antidepressants and suicide and other violent behavior"

Women were known to use less lethal means until the SSRl antidepressants hit the market. But on Prozac and Paxil, women committed 40% of the suicides - many were strikingly violent and clearly leaving no means for rescue.
PROZAC Panacea or Pandora by Ann Blake Tracy PhD, page 280

Because suicidal tendencies are a frequent characteristic of depression, perhaps one of the most serious problems associated with antidepressants is the potential for drug overdose. The potential for suicide caused by the very medication prescribed to prevent it, is further enhanced by the synergistic interaction of the antidepressives with alcohol, barbiturates, and other central nervous system depressants. A glance through the PDR indicates that the quantity and the magnitude of the dangers associated with Elavil are equally present with the other antidepressants.
Get Healthy Now by Gary Null, page 215

Just before Christmas Dr Stuart Donovan and colleagues published a crucial article in the British Journal of Psychiatry. Of 2,776 patients taking SSRIs who were treated at the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary over two years. They found that if you look for a statistically significant relationship between taking SSRIs and suicide by overdosing on them, you won't find much. But they did find a relationship between taking SSRIs and all forms of deliberate self-harm - including overdose, attempted overdose, hanging, gassing, laceration, deliberate road traffic accidents, head banging, swallowing non-medicines - much higher for SSRIs than for the older tricyclics. "The relationship is so strong, Dr Donovan says, that he firmly believes promotional material for SSRIs including Seroxat [Paxil] should be changed immediately so doctors no longer prescribe them to potentially suicidal patients thinking, mistakenly, that by doing so they are protecting their lives." When Dr Donovan sent the manuscript of this study to SmithKline Beecham [now GlaxoSmithKline] (who partially financed the study along with Eli Lilly) before it was published asking for comments. They did not reply.
PROZAC Panacea or Pandora by Ann Blake Tracy PhD, page 15

There has been a study released focusing on the popular antidepressant Paxil and its role in suicidal behavior in children.
Ephedra Fact And Fiction by Mike Fillon, page 233

GULF WAR VETERANS: Captain Joyce Riley, who has headed the battle in exposing Gulf War Syndrome, has noted that approximately 80- 90% of the Gulf War vets are now on or have been offered one of the SSRI antidepressants. As a result many have had their lives turned upside down with others committing suicide or murder/suicide.
PROZAC Panacea or Pandora by Ann Blake Tracy PhD, page 15

One of the disadvantages of the older tricyclic antidepressants is that they are much more dangerous when taken as an overdose. But a very well kept secret, revealed by considering all the research, is that the actual rate of death from suicide is higher in patients who take the new antidepressants than in those who take the older tricyclics. Even more important, twice as many people taking the new antidepressants successfully committed suicide than did the people who took placebos. The results of all the studies--published and unpublished--showed that of every 1000 people with depression treated with one of the new antidepressant drugs, 4.6 more committed suicide each year than would have if they had been treated with a placebo.
Overdosed America by John Abramson MD, page 117

How do serotonin boosters catalyze suicidal and violent impulses? Does the phenomenon occur because of the drugs' stimulating, re-energizing effects as with previous antidepressants? Or might something different happen with these new drugs, as Teicher and Cole suggested in their original report?
Prozac Backlash by Joseph Glenmullen MD, page 152

Nine clinical studies show: "SSRIs: Suicide Risk and Withdrawal (Editorial)," The Lancet 361:1999, 2003. See also Gardiner Harris, "Debate Resumes on the Safety of Depression's Wonder Drugs," New York Times, August 7, 2003.
Overdosed America by John Abramson MD, page 243

In another case, reported by Frederick Goggans and colleagues, in Medical Mimics of Psychiatric Disorders, a 27-year-old executive was hospitalized after attempting to kill herself by overdosing on antidepressants prescribed by her psychiatrist. The woman's suicide attempt--her second--followed a year of psychotherapy that had failed to relieve her fatigue, cognitive problems, and despondency. She was distraught that her suicide attempt was unsuccessful, and told her doctors that she would probably try to kill herself again.
A Dose of Sanity by Sydney Walker III MD, page 108

While the FDA had cleared the drugs, my colleagues continued to describe some cases in which they appeared to have caused severe reactions--agitation, paranoia, psychosis, suicide, and violence--in a small number of patients. Rumors within psychiatric circles held that the FDA panel of outside experts had been flawed, beset with conflicts of interest and deeply divided on the issue of Prozac's safety, in spite of the impression given to the public. Could it be true that a majority of the panel members had conflicts of interest? Had the vote not been unanimous? Was the panel so divided that one-third of its members pressed for a warning and changes in the guidelines for prescribing antidepressant drugs? What was one to believe?
Prozac Backlash by Joseph Glenmullen MD, page 143

"Studies show that Prozac, in particular, plays an especially large role in suicide and other violent behavior"

Treatment emergent suicidality with Prozac has been demonstrated to be two to three times higher than any other anti-depressant. (Jick, et al., antidepressants and Suicide)
PROZAC Panacea or Pandora by Ann Blake Tracy PhD, page 280

It is apparent that the proportion of people taking fluoxetine and committing suicide is higher by an amount to be of concern to medical examiners and also to health care providers. The present report provides evidence that suicide has occurred more frequently in patients taking fluoxetine than in those taking tricyclic antidepressants, the possibility that fluoxetine has induced the idea of suicide must be considered.
PROZAC Panacea or Pandora by Ann Blake Tracy PhD, page 162

When you understand these problems, it is not surprising that twelve years after Prozac was approved, people were again raising the issue of Prozac-related psychoses, suicides, and violent acts. Recent books such as Prozac Backlash, and The Antidepressant Era have made headlines by citing studies suggesting a connection between Prozac and such reactions. A May 2000 story at Dr. Koop Health News began, "The question of whether Prozac, the most-prescribed antidepressant, can make some patients more likely to commit suicide just won't go away, despite repeated and categorical rebuttals by the drug's manufacturer, Eli Lilly and Co. Based on his experience as a suicide counselor and investigator, Dr. Ronald W. Maris, director of the Center for the Study of Suicide at the University of South Carolina, is firmly convinced that a risk exists."
Overdose by Jay S Cohen, page 48

Dr. James W. Long in his discussion of Prozac in THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS 1992 explains, "A review of relevant literature on this subject reveals that the development or intensification of suicidal thoughts during treatment (regardless of the severity of depression) has been documented repeatedly for many antidepressant drugs in wide use. It is apparent that suicidal thinking may emerge during treatment with any antidepressant. " And Fava and Rosenbaum state in a letter to the JOURNAL, OF CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY, in November 1991 that "..emergence of suicidal ideation or behavior has been observed with many antidepressant pharmacotherapies."
PROZAC Panacea or Pandora by Ann Blake Tracy PhD, page 49

He prescribed the medication Prozac. One month later, after taking this medication, she committed suicide by hanging herself. What was so strange about this unsuspected action was that she was not behaving like a person who was depressed or suicidal. At first we discounted the significance of this story. Unfortunately, emotionally disturbed people sometimes commit suicide whether they are taking an antidepressant or not. But in February 1990 an article appeared in the American Journal of Psychiatry that shed a new light on this case history. Physicians associated with the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School reported on six patients who suddenly developed an "intense violent suicidal preoccupation after 2-7 weeks of fluoxetine [Prozac] treatment." It would be disastrous if an antidepressant medication actually produced "obsessive, recurrent, persistent, and intrusive" thoughts of suicide. This may be a rare occurrence, but the Harvard psychiatrists warn that people who feel fatigued and restless or sleep much more than usual may be at higher risk.
Graedons Best Medicine by Joe Graedon & Dr Terasa Graedon, page 214

In the early 1990s most doctors did not know what to make of the Prozac scare. Psychiatrists had long recognized that in the early weeks and months on any antidepressant, patients are at increased risk to act on suicidal impulses. Over the course of just a few weeks, antidepressants can jump-start patients, reinvigorating people who have been without energy for some time. The newfound energy provided by an antidepressant can suddenly enable a patient to act on suicidal or violent urges. Classic papers dating as far back as the 1930s describe the risk with amphetamine antidepressants. For decades pharmaceutical companies and drug proponents adamantly denied the phenomenon, but by the 1970s, when strict limitations were imposed on prescribing amphetamines, their ability to trigger suicide and violence had been firmly established.
Prozac Backlash by Joseph Glenmullen MD, page 141