Posted by med_empowered on March 29, 2006, at 2:18:18
In reply to Re: desipramine vs stimulants for comorbid ADD/ De » med_empowered, posted by scatterbrained on March 29, 2006, at 1:20:55
I agree--shrinks treating kids kind of scare me. I think because kids are helpful anyway; even with well-intentioned, good parents, they're still at the mercy of those who care for them. What do you do when a kid has a "mental illness" because the world around them sucks (bad parents, etc.) ? Medicate them? And..what do you treat kids and other with, anyway? Stimulants have a pretty long track record with ADD, so I don't mind that (although it'd be nice if *fewer* kids were given these drugs), but I do have problems when we start calling troubled kids "ODD" ("oppositional defiant disorder") and RXing fun things like Moban (an old neuroleptic) for pretty much the express purpose of shutting them up. THIS is medicine? THIS is healing? Plus..child psychiatry raises a question: who is this doctor working for? The kid? The parents? Society at large? Ideally, a doctor works as his/her patient's advocate--she is her patient's doctor and does whatever she can to improve that persons life. In psychiatry as a whole, but especially in child psychiatry, I see a lot of docs deviating from this and using their patients.
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