Isee dead people. If the only thing this sentence triggers in you is an experience from a scary movie, then you have probably not heard the story of Christopher Pittman.

On Nov. 28, 2001, Pittman grabbed a 410-gauge shotgun and fired it into the sleeping bodies of his grandfather and his grandfather’s wife. He then set their house on fire and fled. Pittman was 12 years old when he committed this heinous act and was also taking the antidepressant Zoloft.

This story is not from a scary movie — it’s real, which makes it even more frightening. Pittman, now 15, is being tried in a South Carolina court for first-degree murder. He claims that he acted in a fit of psychosis caused by the antidepressant he was taking. Is there any truth to his claim?

Well, we may never know. The truth may very well be sealed in a secret document called “The Prosecutor’s Manual” or in thousands of studies that have been done by drug companies that produce antidepressants.

If you have never heard of “The Prosecutor’s Manual,” it’s a manual that has been prepared by Pfizer, the company that makes Zoloft, to assist prosecutors in trying murder cases involving the drug. Also, Food and Drug Administration rules don’t require drug companies to release all the results of their studies involving these drugs.

In other words, if the study is favorable, release it; if the study shows increased risk of suicide or murder, don’t release it.

Millions of people are becoming a part of this real-life horror movie. In 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold went on a murderous rampage at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. Harris was on the antidepressant Luvox at the time.

A 2002 “Insight” article said, “the medical histories of scores of ‘school shooters’ have not been released, allegedly to protect the minor child.”

Childhood has its trials and tribulations and drug companies realize this. Drug companies offer quick solutions to problems that are just a part of growing up. This is why the market for antidepressants is booming. For example, Zoloft averages about $3 billion in annual sales. If such antidepressants were proven unsafe — even if just in children — it would adversely affect many of these drug companies. Therefore, it isn’t so far-fetched to assume drug companies would do almost anything to validate the safety of their pills.

Don’t think that problems with drug companies don’t affect you — they do. Yes, you are indeed a part of this real-life horror flick. According to Pharmawatch.info the FDA has just issued new rules that no longer require drug companies to include technical fine print of side effects caused by their drug.

Very soon, you might be seeing drug ads in magazines and other publications that claim to help you with allergies but don’t tell you about the possible ways they can harm you.

The final scene of Pittman’s real-life horror flick could be on an execution bed. The end could be a lethal injection piercing through him and through the lives of his many family members who believe he is innocent. Twelve people are going to decide his fate.

Your story doesn’t have to be this grim and uncertain. It would take a lot, but it is possible to exorcise the evil spirits in this FDA-drug company horror story.

Go to the FDA Web site and post your comments on new regulations. Let it know that you want drug companies to be required to release results of all studies done — not only the favorable ones.

After all, you want to write the script of your own story. Next time you have a cold or some sort of illness, wouldn’t you like to know that everything has been done to guarantee the safety of the pills you might be taking?

You don’t want your simple case of a cold, stomach ache or minor depression to turn into a horror story, do you?