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Interesting article from the New Yorker...
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<blockquote data-quote="totoro" data-source="post: 37839" data-attributes="member: 3155"><p>The article was interesting I really liked the Papoloses description of the "View"... </p><p></p><p>It is kind of funny that Patty Duke lives in our neighboring town!!! You think we would have better mental health care??? She does do a lot of theatre here... </p><p></p><p>This is one of the reasons that I love/hate the DSM-IV criteria. And the media at times. It gets word out but not always in a good way. The guidelines need to be adjusted, for the DSM. I think if they did it would help the psychiatrist's not be so afraid to work with the parents of BiPolar (BP) children and not try and just diagnosis them with somthing like adhd or odd.</p><p></p><p>Obviously the medication situation needs to be an ongoing improvement... for everyone. But it seems like they only point out the bad in regards to the behavior medications... you don't see this with medications being used to treat other illness in children so much. They will discuss the good and then if it outweighs the bad etc. For our children's medications it is let's point out the bad... and then we might say something good, maybe.</p><p></p><p>When I walked in to our evaluation armed with the videos... it was pretty funny, there was little to argue about at that point!!! I bring those videos now to every apt!!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="totoro, post: 37839, member: 3155"] The article was interesting I really liked the Papoloses description of the "View"... It is kind of funny that Patty Duke lives in our neighboring town!!! You think we would have better mental health care??? She does do a lot of theatre here... This is one of the reasons that I love/hate the DSM-IV criteria. And the media at times. It gets word out but not always in a good way. The guidelines need to be adjusted, for the DSM. I think if they did it would help the psychiatrist's not be so afraid to work with the parents of BiPolar (BP) children and not try and just diagnosis them with somthing like adhd or odd. Obviously the medication situation needs to be an ongoing improvement... for everyone. But it seems like they only point out the bad in regards to the behavior medications... you don't see this with medications being used to treat other illness in children so much. They will discuss the good and then if it outweighs the bad etc. For our children's medications it is let's point out the bad... and then we might say something good, maybe. When I walked in to our evaluation armed with the videos... it was pretty funny, there was little to argue about at that point!!! I bring those videos now to every apt!!! [/QUOTE]
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