‘About 18.8 million American adults, or 9.5 percent of the population, suffer from a depressive order, including major depression and bipolar disorder. And about 10 percent of adult women and 4 percent of men take antidepressants.

Antidepressants don’t usually cause people to become violent, but violence can result if medicines are inappropriately prescribed. For example, in people with bipolar disorder who are misdiagnosed as depressed, antidepressants can cause mania that could result in violent behavior. Untreated depression can worsen, leading someone to become psychotic, or lose touch with reality, and become violent.’

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