Mother Says Antidepressants Made Her Want To Kill Her Children

A British mother has appeared on national television condemning antidepressants, saying that when she was prescribed them she began fantasising about killing her own children. Katinka Blackford Newman appeared on ITV’s This Morning saying that the antidepressants prescribed by her doctor caused her to become aggressive, delusional and psychotic. Naturalnews.com reports: What happened to her might only happen in one out of every 100 to 1,000 cases, but that’s far too many when an entire family’s well-being is at stake. It all started when her marriage broke down and she had to sell her home. Sleepless nights drove her to a psychiatrist, who prescribed her an antidepressant even though she was asking for sleeping pills. She said the antidepressants put her into a trance of sorts, and she quickly became psychotic. In just two days, she lost her ability to speak and believed that nothing mattered any more. It got so bad that she actually thought she killed her children and attacked herself with a knife. One can only imagine what her ex-husband thought when her children called him to say that something strange was happening to their mother. The antidepressants caused Newman to experience the medical condition akathisia, which brings [...]