School Shootings: John Travolta Blames Psychiatric Drugs

It’s because he and Tom Cruise are both Scientologists. They believe psychiatry is bogus. They also believe most medication is bogus as well.

Personally I think Tom Cruise is right about prescription drugs

I don’t care for Scientology, but I agree that psychiatric drugs aren’t the answer. I think they are doing more harm then good.

Its been clinically proven that anti-depresents in young people can lead to erratic moods resulting in suicidal\homicidal thinking. If you look at these shootings all the shooters were on these drugs. Doesn’t mean they weren’t crazy already but if the drug has been proven to make some people even crazier…

To say that psychiatric drugs aren’t the answer is a blanket statement that you shouldn’t make. There are a lot of people who couldn’t live a normal life without them. The problem is doctors over prescribing them because pharmaceutical companies bribe them with expensive dinners for the whole office and gifts.

I do agree that anti-depression drugs may not be entirely safe and can cause more harm than good, but that’s not true in most cases. To say all of them are bad is crazy, but not nearly as crazy as taking the rantings of a science fiction novelist as religious dogma.

Scientologists are the ones doing the real harm, by convincing sick people that they need to give their money to Scientology instead of a doctor. We need severe medical reforms, not idiot self-righteous Hollywood elite fearing alien soul particles and zoloft.

ironically, anti-depressants HAVE been linked with violent outbreaks in a small % of people that take them.
People have reported feeling very violent, suicidal, etc.
So, the wacko scientologists are right on this one.
Rob

How does 1 student kill 33?

We are supposed to believe that this guy is some sort of unstoppable killing machine? No one was brave enough to jump him while he reloaded?

4 hours he was allowed to go on a killing spree without interference from the police?

Does the date of the attack not raise questions. Look up the week for April 20th and you’ll see what I’m talking about.

Wake up people, he didn’t act alone.

If he didn’t act alone, who helped him?

Sometimes people are depressed because of a chemical imbalance in their brains.

Drugs sucks!

First of all, to blame medication as the soul reason for this terrible event is irresponsible. However, this coming from a Scientologist shouldn’t be surprising. These people who believe in a science fiction story as a their bible and want to ban pyscology all together. In addition, since when did an “actor” really bring to light a real situation. Just my 2 cents. John Keep acting in your bad movies and stay out of the social scene

While Scientologists’ (=Travolta) blind opposition to psychiatry and psychiatric medication is out of line, in this case they may actually have a case. But hear me out before condemning me, because the lesson is better psychiatric diagnosis and care, not avoidance of them.

Specifically, the interaction between bipolar disorder and unipolar depression, and the medication for them both, needs to be handled better. Bipolar disorder often presents itself, especially if diagnosis is not careful enough, as unipolar depression, and anti-depressants are prescribed. (the fellow in WV was prescribed anti-depressants, although I read hear he was too poor do buy them – since the medical records were just now released to the commission, the truth is still coming out, and let’s remember that almost all doctors have little boxes of “samples” they often give people when initially prescribing, either to cover them until a prescription can be filled or to help people who may have trouble getting drugs paid for). However, if the person suffers not from unipolar but from bipolar depression, then anti-depressants will often have the side effect of what is now called “Bipolar III,” or anti-depressant induced mania. (”Mania” here can be more specifically described as “frenetic energy, often with aspects of rage, and lack of inhibition and control”. Sounds like a recipe for a school shooting to me).

From what I’ve read, it sounds like the shooter may have been a likely candidate for bipolar, in that there was already an element of rage in his behavior. Where adult bipolar is characterized by swings between depression and mania, adolescent bipolar is increasingly being understood as characterized by fits of rage.

So, is it possible that Travolta is right, and that anti-depressants triggered the shooting? Absolutely. But where he concludes that we should do away with anti-depressants and embrace Scientology’s program of cleansing and purification, I think the more accurate lesson is that we need to apply better methods of discriminating between similar neurological disorders which require different medication approaches. For example, ADD, bipolar, and unipolar depression are all considered “spectrum” disorders, related and often comorbid, but the approach for one may cause a negative reaction in someone with shades of another.

I was referring to Blacksburg, VA (Virginia, West Virginia, my bad). Since his medical records were only recently released to the investigatory commission, how do you know for sure he wasn’t on anything? The same news sources that initially reported he was on anti-depressants?

As far as adolescent, I was referring to reports that he had issues with rage dating back to high school.

What’s the difference between scientology and other religions? Just a couple thousand years, that’s it. Nothing more.

There’s nothing in dianetics that’s any more preposterous or ridiculous than the bible, koran or any book with an imaginary friend that causes people to kill each other and treat people who don’t believe in their personal imaginary friend like crap.

At least the idiots in scientology don’t hate women and homos *as much* as the idiot christians, idiot muslims, idiot buddhists. Don’t get me wrong, they hate ‘em, but not quite as much.

Yes, buddhism is too a religion, you hippie. It posits a subjective order to the universe: cause & effect.

Why do you care if someone likes kissing someone of the same sex? Giving a crap what someone else does with his or someone else’s genitals puts you in the same category as a religious zealot.

Oh, and you… you “spiritual” folks. You’re the worst; you won’t even commit to something. You’re so lazy and/or self centered that you MAKE up a way to get close to some imaginary friend.

Come on… Give it up, people. We’ve gone so long with this “deity in the sky” crap. Let’s stop for a while. Just a year, okay? This god stuff is killing us. Please.

After a year of everyone being rational and realizing that killing and torturing people who look different is horrible, then you can all go back to hating yourselves, your women and your hairdresser.

Deal?