this is a very interesting study about people with severe acne and that a medicine may be involved with an increase risk in suicide. it might be acne and depression, but know the risks:
"People who take the acne medication isotretinoin – perhaps best known by the brand-name Accutane – have a slightly higher risk of suicide than people who don’t take the medication. However, the excess risk is most likely due to having severe acne, not because the drug causes psychiatric problems.
Researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden analyzed data from people who had taken isotretinoin from 1980 to 1989 and identified suicide attempts and deaths through 2001. There were 128 suicide attempts among 5,756 patients. Suicide attempts began between one and three years before the medication was taken. The suicide risk was the highest within six months after treatment ended.
It’s possible that the increased suicide risk may be due to a patient’s despair that his or her social life did not improve after acne treatment, especially if the treatment was unsuccessful, the authors wrote."
read more here: http://www.myphl17.com/health/la-heb-acne-suicide-20101112,0,4461977.story