Are the vaccines driving people to commit suicide?

There are 160 VAERS reports that mention the word “suicide” — either because someone was thinking about committing suicide, had attempted suicide or had in fact committed suicide.

Could the Covid-19 vaccines possibly be driving people crazy?

Crazy enough that they are driven to take their own lives?

It’s appropriate to be skeptical of such a suggestion.

But given the number of VAERS reports, and what they say, it would also be good if the possibility were investigated.

Here’s one of the 160 cases in VAERS:

VAERS ID: 1113936-1: A 67-year-old woman in Indiana reports “losing her mind” after a second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.

“No appetite and went 32 hours without eating/He stated she's lost her appetite; heard in the background stating the COVID-19 Vaccine screwed up her mind; Headache; Eyes hurt/Her eyes felt like they were going to pop out; Feels tired and weak; Feels tired and weak; can't think straight; pain in head and stomach; change of mood; altered mental status and nightmares…she is so mean to everybody / not acting normal; her eyes felt like they were going to pop out; Suicidal thoughts/thinking of committing suicide; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer from a Pfizer sponsored program…The patient had a super bad reaction to the Pfizer vaccine. Patient's mind has not been normal ever since and she is so mean to everybody. The patient was fine until she got the vaccine. The reporter has had the ambulance and police up there to try and help but the caller wouldn't go out to the hospital. The patient had a normal mind before she got the shot…Now patient is saying she won't get her mind back. It has messed up her mind. Clarified when caller states it messed up her mind, he is referring to the patient being mean. Stated patient did have a headache, but wasn't hateful. Stated patient's mind is so bad, she is just mean. If patient doesn't get help soon she is going to tell herself good night…At 11PM last Wednesday (24Feb2021), patient starting losing her mind. Confirmed with caller that patient is currently having suicidal thoughts. Patient used to be a real nice lady and blames this on the COVID-19 Vaccine. Patient is afraid she is not going to get her mind back. Advised caller to seek emergent medical attention for the patient. Patient is against everybody now because of the crazy COVID-19 Vaccine. Patient heard in the background stating the COVID-19 Vaccine screwed up her mind. Caller stated patient is quite upset with everybody. Patient is not acting normal. Patient doesn't think her mind will ever get straightened. The medicine was too much for her body.”

What’s striking is the woman’s awareness that her state of mind was dramatically altered after the vaccine… and what appears to be a confirmation of this by the man making the report (i.e. “Patient used to be a real nice lady…”)

So it’s not just her self-perception. It’s confirmed by someone who knows her that she is not the same after the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine — “patient’s mind is so bad, she is just mean.”

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Here’s another case:

VAERS ID: 0952704-1: A 79-year-old man in Oklahoma committed suicide two days after getting the Pfizer vaccine in January of 2021. This is the first suicide reported in VAERS following one of the Covid vaccines. Here’s what it says:

“Daughter call-in for VAERS report to file for father who committed suicide 1/16/2021 in the AM after reportable ae of COVID 19 vaccine administered 1/14/2021. Patient sought care twice at ER; first visit by ambulance around 5PM and Friday 1/15/2021 Medical Center: Emergency Room. 1st Discharge summary diagnosis: adverse reaction to COVID shot; 2nd Discharge summary diagnosis: adverse reaction to COVID shot, fever, Panic Disorder-- ER. Medical Center Discharge summary diagnosis: Adverse reaction to the vaccine, acute anxiety. Reportable patient symptoms at, 1st visit : fever, shaking stomach cramps, breathing issues. Medical Center -- No fever, confusion and dementia type, patient would not stay in patient bed; patient would get up and sit down again repeatedly, agitated and anxious. Attempted to urinated hospital bed. Patient committed suicide in home.”

The man committed suicide TWO DAYS after getting the Pfizer vaccine. Two days is a short amount of time between vaccination and suicide, increasing the likelihood that the two events were related.

And the two visits to the emergency room during that two-day period indicate that his symptoms were extreme.

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As more younger adults began to be vaccinated, they also began to appear in VAERS under the search term “suicide.”

VAERS ID: 1051023-1: A 33-year-old woman in Alaska reported extreme emotional distress and thoughts of suicide after getting the Pfizer vaccine. She also said she was experiencing fatigue, lack of focus, inability to find joy in anything and “involuntary tears that do not stop.”

Here’s exactly what it says in VAERS:

“On 01 Feb 2021, the patient experienced clinical depression (described as exhaustion, lack of ability to find pleasure or joy in anything, lack of interest in typical daily things, thoughts of suicide). She also experienced fatigue, lack of focus, extreme emotional distress, to include involuntary tears that would not stop. The patient did not receive treatment for the events. The clinical outcome of the events clinical depression (described as exhaustion, lack of ability to find pleasure or joy in anything, lack of interest in typical daily things, thoughts of suicide), fatigue, lack of focus, extreme emotional distress to include involuntary tears that would not stop, was not recovered. It was also reported that since the vaccination, the patient had not been tested for COVID-19. No follow-up attempts are possible. Information about lot number cannot be obtained.”

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Another interesting case is one in which the woman who was reporting suicidal thoughts after a Covid vaccination had worked in the field of mental health, and so seemed to be able to process what was happening and not be overcome by it.

VAERS ID: 1160474-1: A 72-year-old woman in Arizona says she “became depressed very quickly” after receiving the Moderna vaccine.

“I believe I had a sudden drop in Serotonin levels. I became very depressed very quickly. I even had thoughts of suicide surface. I did not reach out for help because I knew I could manage it. I have worked in mental health and chemical dependency. It lasted about 6 hours and then I was fine. In retrospect, I believe I had a similar reaction with the first injection on February 8th, 2021 at 10 am with the reaction starting about 7 pm that evening and lasting 24 hours. I did not connect it to the vaccine at that point. I have been talking to a therapist since the beginning of the pandemic due to isolation I have been experiencing mild depression that comes and goes but is very manageable. This was much more intense and more sudden and immediate. I did not feel at risk even with suicidal ideation, but felt I should report it because if other less experienced, educated people experience this it could be dangerous. It took me so long to report because, in my 70's, I couldn't figure out how until one of my children visited and showed me.”

What I found interesting is that she says this particular depression was “much more intense” than the kind of depression she’d experienced due to isolation, etc. during the pandemic — so intense that even though it lasted only six hours, she had thoughts of suicide.

Note also that she describes her difficulty in submitting a VAERS report, saying she would not have been able to do it without help from one of her children.

And how many people suffering through major depression and having suicidal thoughts would even think of submitting a VAERS report?

Given that there has been no public discussion of any conceivable connection between the vaccine and depression, it seems unlikely it would occur to most people that one could be causing the other.

So what does the 160 represent?

I think it’s fair to say it could represent 1 percent or less than 1 percent of the real number of people of Americans suffering through serious depressive episodes caused by the vaccine — given the complete lack of awareness of a possible connection and given the the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care study which showed less than 1 percent of all adverse events from vaccines are reported to VAERS.

The 160 reports, therefor, likely represent more than 10,000 people. But it could be much higher than 10,000.

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I first began questioning whether the vaccines could be causing depression and driving people to commit suicide when I heard that a college student in the town where I live committed suicide in May of 2021.

Michele Loughlin was a 21-year-old Indiana University student. She was an ROTC cadet majoring in international relations and was also in the Russian program.

I know the Russian program at Indiana University as I was also in it as an undergraduate and know some of the professors.

It’s a small program, with students forming strong bonds with one another and with their professors.

Russian professors often invite their students to their homes at the end of a semester for a shared meal.

What’s the profile of a college student who commits suicide? A student without close friendships, who is isolated and may be under intense academic pressure.

Michele would have been in the warm embrace of an intimate program filled with foreign language geeks.

She ended her own life two days after Indiana University announced its vaccine mandate for students, faculty and staff, with the university saying students who weren’t fully vaccinated by the time they returned to school in August would have their classes canceled and their access to their meal cards and email accounts cut off.

Did Michele go out and get the vaccine immediately?

Had she already gotten it because she would need to be vaccinated at the start of the summer for an internship or for a travel-abroad program?

We don’t know.

Our county coroner told me that she is now asking, when people die suddenly, whether they’d gotten the vaccine. But she said she is not allowed to release this information to anyone other than family members, so I can’t get official confirmation of Michele Loughlin’s vaccine status.

Another reason this case has stuck with me is that we attend Catholic mass most Sundays, and on at least three Sundays that we’ve gone to mass at the student parish over the last year, the priest has asked us to pray for Michele Loughlin, among other parishioners who’ve passed away in the last year or so.

So I know from this that she was Catholic. And this makes her act of suicide even harder to understand.

You can read an article about Michele Loughlin in the student newspaper, the Indiana Daily Student, HERE.

And here’s her obituary.

I’d almost be willing to let the case of Michele Loughlin go, accepting that it is just another tragic case of a young person taking their own life. But then, earlier this month, there was another strange suicide in Bloomington, Indiana.

A professor in the Kelley School of Business here at Indiana University was found face down next to the business school parking garage in the early morning, just before 6 a.m.

A few days later it was reported that it was a suicide.

The professor, Timothy Baldwin, was 64, and must have been nearing retirement. According to the tributes that followed, he was beloved by his students and peers in the business school.

Baldwin would have been halfway into the semester and like all of us, enjoying one of the most beautiful autumns I can remember, with trees aglow in yellow and orange leaves — some deep red.

Why would he have jumped off the top of the parking garage?

Something must have driven him to do it.

Could it have been a sudden change of mental state? A sudden and intense depression caused by the vaccine?

You can read about Prof. Baldwin, in a tribute published by the IU Kelley School of Business, HERE.

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As I was writing this, I was alarmed to see that Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert comic strip, posted a video on Oct. 23 in which he describes a collapse of illusions combined with physical pain that is so intolerable that if it continues for another year, he’ll take his own life.

“I’ll give myself one year…” he said. “If I feel like this next year, I’m going to look to kill myself, because I don’t want to live like this.”

Adams alluded to a physical ailment, without saying what his symptoms are.

“Physically, I haven’t figured out how to fix my physical problem,” he said, “so exercise — I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to exercise again.”

He said he doesn’t have a clue what’s physically wrong with him.

Adams got the Covid-19 vaccine in 2021, saying he did it only so that he could take a trip to Greece.

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A quick perusal of the medical literature reveals that some researchers are aware that the vaccine can cause psychiatric reactions and are tracking them — though the number of cases examined are few.

Below are links to three case studies, plus a review of 14 cases documented as of May 2022.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8349391/#:~:text=This%20is%20the%20first%20report,19%20infection%20have%20been%20reported.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8784614/

https://www.psychiatrist.com/pcc/covid-19/psychosis-associated-covid-19-vaccination/

Psychiatric adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccines: A rapid review of published case reports

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876201822001277#!