Posted by SLS on February 6, 2009, at 6:14:40
In reply to Re: Drugs and Psychiatrists, posted by garnet71 on February 5, 2009, at 22:04:04
> I felt sickened by this article...2 years olds diagnosed with bipolar and given pyscho scripts:
Psycho scripts? Never seen it put quite that way before. Hmm.
> "Take the case of Dr. Joseph L. Biederman, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and chief of pediatric psychopharmacology at Harvard's Massachusetts General Hospital. Thanks largely to him, children as young as two years old are now being diagnosed with bipolar disorder and treated with a cocktail of powerful drugs, many of which were not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for that purpose and none of which were approved for children below ten years of age."
In my view, Biederman did what was to point out what has been increasingly observed by others. Pediatric bipolar disorder is not a figment of this man's imagine. I think his work is very important. I am not educated as to what treatments are being employed currently. Have you ever heard of kindling theory? To prevent the kindling of a more intractable illness, I think something should be done, even if it is only behavioral or psychosocial interventions.
You see, I don't know enough to make a proper assessment of the actions of professionals in the field. I just don't know enough.
> In my view, these parents should be reviewed for child abuse for offering their children as guinea pigs for mental experimentation.
You are entitled to your opinions, but it is considered uncivil here to exaggerate or overgeneralize. It is my opinion that this is what you are doing here.
See: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/faq.html#civil
In any event, my perspective is a bit different from yours. I am not yet ready to join the bandwagon of Biederman bashers, of which you can find many on the Internet and elsewhere.
- Scott
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