Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors drugs are looked up on as modern method to heal depression related problems, this kind of medicines should be prescribed with great caution to prevent the probability of self destruction among adolescents and adults. A multidisciplinary team of Johns Hopkins employed researchers who have planned two innovative strategies to cure the depression in a calm manner by using SSRI drugs for best result. These drugs must be prescribed with adequate dosage by taking into account health of a patient, stated Adam Kaplin, senior investigator at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. As it is applicable to other medications which are normally prescribed for high blood pressure, diabetes, and blood thin therapy, noted Kaplin. Psychiatrists have always provided accurate attention while prescribing dosage of drugs that belongs to SSRIs to lessen all the dark effects. To treat the depression faced by children or adolescents, intense mission had been proclaimed to eradicate this serious problem and help them to lead healthy and normal life. He added further it is torturing and uneasy experience for children to reciprocate when they are already on the verge of depression and soon get dragged into the cabin of a medical professional they cannot wait patiently till the process gets completed. Youngsters hardly become ready to search for external help to come out of depression on their own and it may take long time for parents to identify and realize the gravity of the situation, said he. The most common phenomenon is when parents notice symptoms of depression they always land up in implementing other methods and keep medical help as a last preference.

Sometimes, it has been observed that treatment initiated to cure depression may appear to be as frightful as one could ever imagine or may evoke symptoms of haphazard treatment given to the person in need as a result depression can take him/her to the path of self destruction on the contrary use of SSRIs may also increase the same risk. In the year of 2004, the FDA of USA circulated a black box warning for SSRIs and it is important to know that the most heart threatening warning on a prescribed medicine was drugs can trigger suicidal thoughts and action by 2 to 4 percent. This is very strange to know that more than 10 % children and adolescents in the U.S. are frequently coming on the radar of depression from major depressive disorder. “Nowadays suicide number has been reduced to the extent,” mentioned Kaplin, apparently because medical professionals often become reluctant to recommend SSRIs despite knowing that there is still fair chance of committing suicide if major depressive disorder is left as untreated. In the study conducted on the effects of SSRI by Kaplin and his team they were questioned whether these negative effects come into picture immediately after beginning the treatment with SSRIs could be possibly alleviated either by using the method of scientific dosage as made applicable for adults who are identified with anxiety disorders or by combining SSRI treatment with another drugs that were earlier used to harness SSRIs’ dangerous side effects in adults. Thus, in conclusion SSRIs triggered impulsive behavior in the young adults in the first month but didn’t spur suicidal thoughts.