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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 285586" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>I'd be dead without my medications BUT I feel they are way overprescribed, especially for kids. I'm appalled at how many medications our kids can be on. I don't think there is a need for more than two unless the child is schizophrenic and not able to understand reality from fantasy. It seems some doctors want to TRY to medicate away every symptom. Since kids are young, they can't explain when they feel horrible due to their medications. I have been overmedicated a few times, but I hate the feeling so I will refuse to take too many medications. However, if you have a clinical mental illness I also do not believe therapy alone will fix the problem any more than diet alone will fix serious diabetes. And mental illness can be lethal.</p><p>Michael Jackson was addicted to drugs, as I understand it. He has been in rehab and has struggled for years. Drug addiction prescribed by a rich performer's private doctor is not the same thing as an antidepressant for somebody like me who simply could not function even on a minor level due to such a black depression. </p><p>I think of all the overprescribed medications, stimulants are the most widely overprescribed and abused for kids. It shocks me how easily doctors hand out this potentially addictive drug that my own daughter abused. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite4" alt=":mad:" title="Mad :mad:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":mad:" /> Don't they know the high street value of these medications????</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 285586, member: 1550"] I'd be dead without my medications BUT I feel they are way overprescribed, especially for kids. I'm appalled at how many medications our kids can be on. I don't think there is a need for more than two unless the child is schizophrenic and not able to understand reality from fantasy. It seems some doctors want to TRY to medicate away every symptom. Since kids are young, they can't explain when they feel horrible due to their medications. I have been overmedicated a few times, but I hate the feeling so I will refuse to take too many medications. However, if you have a clinical mental illness I also do not believe therapy alone will fix the problem any more than diet alone will fix serious diabetes. And mental illness can be lethal. Michael Jackson was addicted to drugs, as I understand it. He has been in rehab and has struggled for years. Drug addiction prescribed by a rich performer's private doctor is not the same thing as an antidepressant for somebody like me who simply could not function even on a minor level due to such a black depression. I think of all the overprescribed medications, stimulants are the most widely overprescribed and abused for kids. It shocks me how easily doctors hand out this potentially addictive drug that my own daughter abused. :angry: Don't they know the high street value of these medications???? [/QUOTE]
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