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<blockquote data-quote="Sara PA" data-source="post: 155457" data-attributes="member: 1498"><p>My guess would be that there is less empathy because there is this widespread belief that there's a pill that can fix anything and everything. So, if someone has uncontrolled "mental illness" (I hate the term), the reaction is that he should just go to the doctor and get medications. The phrase "did you forget to take your medications" has become the new "you're crazy". We've all run into a school official or legal officials or medical personnel or all of the above who blame our parenting or the child's poor choices because, after all, the child is medicated -- that should fix him. But we all know that these medicines can cause psychiatric adverse reactions -- including violence and homicidal ideation -- that can make the child far, far worse. Many of those children -- and adults -- are the ones who make the news. It isn't the medications that get the blame but the "mental illness" thus labeling people with "mental illness" even more negatively than before. And much of this is because the advertising to both doctors and the general public make people believe that these drugs are somehow magic. </p><p></p><p>How far into this journey did each of us have to come before we realized there were precious few magic pills out there which can make our kids "'normal"? Life just ain't like those commercials. </p><p></p><p>And don't get me started on the handwringing phrase "get him the help he needs" which is a restatement of that idea that there is a way -- usually a pill -- to fix "mental illness".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sara PA, post: 155457, member: 1498"] My guess would be that there is less empathy because there is this widespread belief that there's a pill that can fix anything and everything. So, if someone has uncontrolled "mental illness" (I hate the term), the reaction is that he should just go to the doctor and get medications. The phrase "did you forget to take your medications" has become the new "you're crazy". We've all run into a school official or legal officials or medical personnel or all of the above who blame our parenting or the child's poor choices because, after all, the child is medicated -- that should fix him. But we all know that these medicines can cause psychiatric adverse reactions -- including violence and homicidal ideation -- that can make the child far, far worse. Many of those children -- and adults -- are the ones who make the news. It isn't the medications that get the blame but the "mental illness" thus labeling people with "mental illness" even more negatively than before. And much of this is because the advertising to both doctors and the general public make people believe that these drugs are somehow magic. How far into this journey did each of us have to come before we realized there were precious few magic pills out there which can make our kids "'normal"? Life just ain't like those commercials. And don't get me started on the handwringing phrase "get him the help he needs" which is a restatement of that idea that there is a way -- usually a pill -- to fix "mental illness". [/QUOTE]
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