A Inconceivable Truth

People always think things in normal ways. However, many things do not follow the way which they expect to be.

For example, suicide is the third cause of death in adolescents in Singapore, following by intentional injury and homicide. Most people believe that teenagers with antidepressants are more easy to commit suicide because they have problems with their mind and the way of thinking.

However, a new study by researchers at the University of South Florida and University of Illinois suggests FDA mandated warnings about suicide in teens treated with antidepressants could have the unintended consequence of placing more youth at risk, this means teenagers with antidepressant treated actually will have less rate of suicide than normal teenagers.

This is probably because teens with antidepressants could be more calm than normal persons when they get excited and want to do something stupid. Normal person live what they want and can not hold on when they get excited.

People really want to lower the rate of death in teenagers, so they try to help those teens who are supposed to keen to commit suicide. However, the misunderstanding of teens with antidepressants treated let all of the doctors, psychologist, media go towards them, who will not choose to commit suicide, basically. For those who really need help, no one will go and help them and when they feel really upset and can not relief themselves, they choose suicide.

People care about teens and they have done a lot for them, but they can not even tell the facts among teenagers. They just make their own assumptions without any evidence. Unfortunately, the wrong assumption seemed to be so correct that no one will doubt. Then the tragedy just happened.

Care like this is not care at all. This is not a society should do.

A real nice society should care about everyone in need, prejudice shouldn't be in the society's dictionary. People should have more research like the two university and help people find the truth.

Do care about every members in the society. An accidentally suggest may save a lot of people's life.

References:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070907095628.htm





University of South Florida Health (2007, September 10). Newer Antidepressants Led To Less, Not More, Teen Suicides. ScienceDaily.



07/03/2008