Frontline The Medicated Child

[Tahoe]

Anyone look at it last night? Another great Frontline, imo. You might want to check it out if you have kids. ADD to Bipolar, etc.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/medicatedchild/

In recent years, there's been a dramatic increase in the number of children being diagnosed with serious psychiatric disorders and prescribed medications that are just beginning to be tested in children. The drugs can cause serious side effects, and virtually nothing is known about their long-term impact. "It's really to some extent an experiment, trying medications in these children of this age," child psychiatrist Dr. Patrick Bacon tells FRONTLINE. "It's a gamble. And I tell parents there's no way to know what's going to work"

[Zekyl]

That's why I took myself off my bipolar meds. I just learned to sit back, calm myself, and work through the problem (meditation helps a lot). I don't want to be all doped up all the time.

[Timone]

^ Learning to not cry about everything helped you too, right?

[Tahoe]

There was a psychologist on that said it is basically impossible to diagnose some of these conditions in a child. Children are not adults.

One of the most disturbing things to me ist that there is really no tests to know if these meds are too strong for kids, except to give them to them. The studies that have been done have been done by the drug companies.

[Glenn]

Frontline works really well if your dog has fleas. Hopefully that hasn't been mentioned yet, I didn't read this thread.

[bukdow]

Anyone look at it last night? Another great Frontline, imo. You might want to check it out if you have kids. ADD to Bipolar, etc.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/medicatedchild/

I saw that, Tahoe. The way American society is medicating its kids is very disturbing. A lot of that stuff is just kids being kids. We had 120 acres, BB guns, baseball, rope swings in the barn, etc. to burn off our "ADD" and "bipolar". Now, kids just play video games and eat shit food (which I think is a big problem). frankly, I think American "culture" in general is poison.

[Big Swami]

I saw that, Tahoe. The way American society is medicating its kids is very disturbing. A lot of that stuff is just kids being kids. We had 120 acres, BB guns, baseball, rope swings in the barn, etc. to burn off our "ADD" and "bipolar". Now, kids just play video games and eat shit food (which I think is a big problem). frankly, I think American "culture" in general is poison.

Bukdow posts without shitting on us - a new day has dawned at WTF.

[Timone]

I had anxiety as a kid. I'd medicate it by sitting in my room all day (didn't help obviously).

I agree with bukdow.

[Uncle Mxy]

For some kids, drugs do help. Growing up, I used to live next door to and babysit a kid who was manic depressive without his meds. He was clearly fucked up when he missed his meds, and was clearly ok when he took 'em. This was before psychotropic drugs were a widely-accepted substitute for good parenting. His mom seemed ok as a mom (in fact, his mom was a milf, with superior taste in lingerie to my 12-year old eyes).

[Fool]

For some kids, drugs do help. Growing up, I used to live next door to and babysit a kid who was manic depressive without his meds. He was clearly fucked up when he missed his meds, and was clearly ok when he took 'em. This was before psychotropic drugs were a widely-accepted substitute for good parenting. His mom seemed ok as a mom (in fact, his mom was a milf, with superior taste in lingerie to my 12-year old eyes).

Mystery solved. Oedipus complex.