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Posted by nancy on August 31, 2000 at 23:28:09:In Reply to: Re: lorazapam posted by DeDe on May 12, 2000 at 08:36:22:
My father was put on lorazapam after the death of my mother. They had been married 49 years. She died in 1996. He took more pills per day than were prescribed, and actually cut his thumb off in an industrial fan after taking too many. That was 2 years ago. His depression got worse and worse. My mother died July 29,1996. My father finally got to the point to where he could hardly walk aand of course, the dr. prescribed a walker and a cane that medicaid paid for. Saturday afternoon, August 26,2000 he had about 15 minutes alone while my brother went to water the flowers on my mother's grave. Daddy went into his bedroom where my mother had died from a massive heart attack; aand he found the pistol we had been hiding for 2 months. He put the pistol in his mouth and blew his brains out. The dr. had finally decided to start taking him off of lorazapam after 4 years. As far as I know, the dr. never adviced or insissted on counceling. I believe my father killed himself partly because of the affects of lorazapam and the fact that he was grieving himself to death because of the death of my mother. Why is counseling left out? We begged our daddy to see a psychiatric, but he refused. Why can't a dr. force a patient to go to counceling? My father waS 72 YEARS OLD. hE WAS SUFFERING FROM CLINICAL depression. What is wrong with these dr.? Do senior citisens not count anymore because ther are so many of them?That was my own diagnosis that my father had clinical depression,no one else. BUt, please be careful with anything that changes the chemical balance in you brain. I'm not trying to blame anyone for my father's death, but I will always believe those pills had something to do with him taking his own life.
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