As Youth Suicides Climb, Anguished Parents Begin to Speak Out [khn.org]

I don’t feel safe or comfortable prescribing SSRI medications to kids anymore. Can the AAP look at the data about sexual dysfunction, suicide and increased aggression, behavioral dysregulation and get the data from David Healy and others on Prozac and the other SSRI medications and give doctors a real and unbiased answer as to whether this stuff is safe to give to kids, please. 

If the parents came to me looking for medication... I would be in a bind because I no longer believe this stuff is safe (and with 20 percent of kids with a “mental” health concern, there will be many parents coming to us - I know the antipsychotics are not safe, I’m not sure about the stimulants, because they sensitize the brain and suppress play, I doubt they are safe and the MTA showed there to be no benefit at 2 years treatment, in fact the treated kids started to do worse).  

I certainly don’t believe that we doctors have the information we need to accurately provide parents and patients with the information they need to give truly informed consent.