Posted by Devastated Mother on February 16, 2006, at 13:53:08
In reply to Re: Suicide on Effexor, posted by lifetime on February 16, 2006, at 11:19:00
For those who have found effexor useful in the face of devastating depression, I am happy for you. My son did not face devastating depression, and he would probably have been better off with NO treatment than the ridiculous treatment he received. I could not know, nor could his father have known, that the doctor was incompetent. But the bottom line for me remains that in my opinion, the doctor's obligation is to inform the patient's family that there is some danger of suicidality (as they so clinically put it!), so that we could have known to watch for this.
I understand that people die from all sorts of things every day. Everyone's life is a tragedy waiting to happen. For me, however, this loss of life was preventable, and I will probably never forgive this doctor.
DM
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