What I was saying, HM, is that we did research for 15 years before we started to design our intervention programs. So many intervention programs are ineffective because they're based just on someone's opinions or personal philosophies, not on the realities of the situations they're trying to change. Our research was designed to discover those realities so that we could address them in our programs. Here's a link to our web site if you'd like to see more about our programs:
http://www.cfr.uga.edu/
The first time I was put on antidepressants in 1987, the doctor warned me about the increase in suicidality as the medication begins to take effect. He said exactly what Lisa said: The medication starts to make one feel more energized before it completely controls the depressive symptoms; thus, a person may find the stamina to act on suicidal feelings they already had but felt too tired and apathetic to act upon. He warned me to contact him immediately if I felt that way. It is actually a part of the medicine's causing the illness to remit; the illness, not the medication, causes the feelings.
