Every school shooter had used antidepression drugs, but how many were low on vitamin D

Fact People who are depressed are often low on vitamin D
Fact People who are depressed take antidepression drugs
Fact Every school shooter had used antidepression drugs
Fact People are particularly low on vitamin D in the winter
Fact Most of the shootings have happened in the winter
Hypothesis School shooters were low on vitamin D

• Suicide seasonality and antidepressants: a register-based study in SwedenPubMed Feb 2013
  Seasonality of completed suicides with a peak in spring and early summer is a well-documented finding
• Treatment of childhood and adolescent depression. PubMed Sept 2012
  Antidepressants have a boxed warning for the increased risk of suicide
• Why Are More than One in Ten Americans at Risk for Suicide? Mercola, Feb 2012
  in 2010: 8.7 million Americans contemplated suicide, 2.5 million made plans , 1.1 million attempted it, 37,800 did it.
• More than 1 in 10 Americans on Suicide-Linked Antidepressants Nov 2012
  antidepressants are now the most common drug among people aged 18 to 44 (CDC)
  Eli Lilly & Co., were able to hide the link between Prozac and suicide for 15 years
• List of school shootings on antidepressants Dec 2012
  65 incidents, giving the date and location, often showing which antidepressent the person was on
  Very few of the incidents happened in June-Aug, unless in Australia – where June is the low vitamin D winter.
• School Shootings: Evil or Drug-Induced Behavior? PDF at bottom of this page
• Psych meds linked to 90% of school shootings Dec 2012
• 2008 book “Medication Madness: The Role of Psychiatric Drugs in Cases of Violence, Suicide and Crime.”

See also Vitamin D Life

• Depression, vitamin D, Magnesium: no agreement Jan 2012
• Serotonin related to season, light and perhaps latitude and vitamin D
• Handout on Vitamin D (Hormone D) and sleep - Gominak 2012
• Antidepressants might increase infertility and pregnancy problems – Nov 2012
  Most likely: antidepressants lower vitamin D levels
• Hypothesis Vitamin D supplements will reduce suicide – 2011
• Suicide 2X more likely with low vitamin D (in military) – Jan 2013
• All items in category Winter blues and depression 215 items

See also web

• We all need 'nature’s Prozac’ The Telegraph, April, 2013 Depression
• The Violent Side Effects of Antidepressants that Many Ignore Mercola Oct 2013
  five of the top 10 most violence-inducing drugs were found to be antidepressants:Prozac, Paxil, Luvox, Effexor, Pristiq
  one in every 250 subjects taking Paxil or Prozac were involved in a violent episode

Note: Magnesium deficiency is also associated with low vitamin D and poor mental health