Many medications such as tricyclic antidepressants used to treat bipolar disorder come with a warning that sun sensitivity could be a side effect. Carol & Richard Eustice, the About Guides to Arthritis, review some important information about this issue. “How do certain medications react with the sun and is the reaction photosensitive, phototoxic, or photoallergic? What measures can you take to prevent sun sensitivity reactions? What should you be doing?”
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Antidepressants are linked to suicide. The proof is people are dying while on them or withdrawing from them. The psychiatric industry claims to cure or to help, yet they never take responsibility for the deaths associated with their services and treatment recommendations. Buyer beware.
First of all, which of our meds are dangerous in the sun AND hot weather?
Secondly, the link between antidepressants and suicide has not been clearly established. What is known is that during the depressive cycle, there are two periods during which a person is at highest risk of suicide. The first period is on the downswing, before the person loses all energy to do anything, but is caught in that hopeless feeling. The person with suicidal ideations at this point still has enough energy to plan and carry out a suicide. The second, and maybe the most dangerous in my mind, is when the person first starts to rise out of that lowest part of depression where they had no energy. They’ve had plenty of time to think about “how bad things are”, how hopeless everything is, and to even think about how they would commite suicide. The upswing has not changed the mood yet, just the energy level. The person who is suicidal now has the energy to carry out his plans, and a certain percentage will try, and a smaller percentage will succeed. This process happens with or without antidepressants. The thing is, a depressed person receiving no treatment is usually not being monitored.
This is why, in the early stages of treatment of depression with antidepressants, it is important to see your health care provider frequently and to be monitored carefully.
The jury is still out as to whether antidepressants “cause” suicide. It is such a complicated thing to investigate. But there are conflicting studies out there, and not all of them are sponsored by the drug companies. In my opinion, I think that we’re going to find that if antidepressant use is frequently and carefully monitored during the critical period for suicide, that we will see fewer suicides with antidepressant use than we will without it.