Thanks for bringing up this subject, Ben, it's important that we distinguish between the weapons used to do harm and the cause of that use. I do object to some of the language you used to describe mentally distressed people, words like deranged are not very helpful in this conversation and tend to reinforce the stigma that this group of people already experiences.

The "medications" prescribed to an increasing number of people have been shown over and over to increase suicidality and homicidal thoughts, and create a mental state called disinhibition that can cause people to do things they would not normally do, such as act on those homicidal and suicidal thoughts. In addition, when people do attempt to come off these drugs, psychiatrists intentionally wean them off quickly or make their subjects go cold turkey. This leads to withdrawal symptoms that the patient is then told is a return of their symptoms. The mental health industry is there to put and then keep people on drugs rather than to help them get better.

The question of why so many people are now on these poisonous medications is also one we should be asking ourselves. Why are so many people depressed and unhappy in our society? Could it be the conditions we now live in, where the poor are kept down and have no voice, where everyone is in a constant state of fear of terrorism and where we are never not in a state of war? The world we have created is surely a major cause of the depression and suffering that leads to seeking psychiatric help, we should solve that problem and not just band-aid over the symptoms with profit making drugs that often do no better than a placebo.