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ELI5: How do medications cause thoughts of suicide?
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Antidepressants can, in some cases, actually increase suicide risk. Nobody is really certain why this is, but there are some educated guesses floating around.

Depression can be an exhausting state, but suicide requires a lot of effort (to overcome survival instinct, etc). Extremely depressed people often have trouble so much as getting out of bed, attempting suicide would be simply too much effort. If you give antidepressants to one of these people and their depression improves, but just by a little bit, they may suddenly find themselves with enough mental energy to actually go through with suicide.