Antidepressants should be prescribed says CIPRAMIL mum Leonie Fennell

Fennell is not opposed to the prescription of anti-depressants. But she believes that her son is in a minority of people who react badly to them. The pills made him feel anxious, on edge and more depressed as he struggled to get over breaking up with his ex-girlfriend, Jennifer Hannigan, whom he also stabbed, along with Creane's older brother Dylan, that fateful night last summer.



"I'm not saying they don't work for other people. Of course they do, and of course they should be prescribed and people should not stop taking them because of what happened to Shane. He had a reaction to the tablets. His tongue got swollen from taking them. Then he overdosed on them and the second doctor prescribed him the same thing. If he'd been given a different type of anti-depressant the second time, he might have been OK."



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