Posted by gracey on September 26, 2001, at 11:00:45
In reply to Re: overmedicated, posted by stjames on September 25, 2001, at 16:00:23
> A basically normal child, but Dx with ADD/ADHD. Placed on stimulants....Soon the meds are working against the body and there are new behaviours; aggression, anxiety, compulsiveness or impulsiveness....Drs. diagnose these new behaviours with fancy labels, OCD and ODD, and new meds are added to the mix. Nothing is taken away, so now the kid is on 3-4 diff meds, and is convinced that he/she is not normal and cannot be normal without these pills. The kid lives with nausea, constipation, ect...every day. He does not know that this is NOT normal, because his awareness of his body has been clouded by drugs for as long as he can remember.
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> James here.....
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> BS and inflamitory. I was that "normal child" in first grade, with a LD and a IQ of 150, despite the fact I was failing school. I did not understand anything they were saying till they put me on stims. What a world of difference ! I had none of the side effects you mentioned and 20 years later have only good effects from the wise and informed choice my parents made to medicate me as a child. To deny me medication would of been abuse.
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> JamesJames,
No need to be so defensive. I am glad that yours was a positve experience, but unfortunately, many are not. I feel that people need to be aware of this. As for BS and inflamatory, is it your intention to shut me up? Do you work for the pharmacutical giants?
What I have said here is true, in my case. I have also been in contact with countless other people who have had similar experiences. However, the Drs./psychs, the pharmacists, the drug companies....they are not informing the patient/consumer of the very real dangers of these medications, especially in children, who are still in the growing stages both mentally and physically.
The use of behaviour drugs in our children is skyrocketing out of control. We can it explain that in one of two ways. Either we are becoming such a dysfunctional society that are children are being damaged by that...Or, the drugs used to treat what seems to be a small problem, are creating even more, at a much more serious level. Why do some children with ADD/ADHD dx go on to also acquire even more labels, such as bipolar, oppositional defiant disorder, obsessive/compulsive disorder???? If you can truly say that you believe the drugs have nothing to do with it, then you must believe that we are a seriously messed up society, instigating mental illness at an alarming rate.
Either way, something must be done for these kids. There are other options. What about therapy? Does anyone even DO that anymore, or does it only come in pill-form?
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