Depression post SHTF

[Jonas]

Anti-depressant drugs may be "no answer" as you say, but the hundreds of thousands (or millions) of people currently on anti-depressant drugs will be going through a "cold-turkey" withdrawal which will make them both extremely vulnerable and potentially dangerous. Now toss in the thousands (or tens of thousands) of truly psychotic individuals (bipolar, schizophrenic, etc.) who will no longer have access to the medications that keep them in a functional or semi-functional mode and you have the makings of a real disaster within a disaster. Now (if you really want to be pessimistic) toss in the unknown numbers of true sociopaths who's violent urges are (mostly) held in check now by a strong knowledge of police presence, the availability of prison space, and a functional judicial system and add them into the mix, you have a real danger to post-SHTF society.