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<blockquote data-quote="Sara PA" data-source="post: 151111" data-attributes="member: 1498"><p>Because there is no definitive way to diagnose any of these disorders, there's no definitive way to treat them. All the diagnoses are based on subjective reporting and interpretation of observed behaviors. Those behaviors could be caused by any number of things, medical or otherwise. Doctors make what is only their best guess. Then they treat it with their best guess of what will work. These are, of course, educated guesses but still little more than guesses. And unfortunately there is a lot of misinformation circulating about the safety and long term effectiveness of many of these medications. These disorders for which psychtropic medications are prescribed are brain disorders -- the disagnosis implies the brain is malfunctioning. However, we still know very little about exactly <em>how</em> the brain is malfunctioning. Few doctors order what few neurological tests are available which would sometimes pinpoint where and why the brain is malfunctioning. Medicating based on behavior alone without <em>really</em> knowing what's going on in the brain (or exactly what many of these drugs do in the brain) is a roll of the dice.</p><p></p><p>I have to ask: Have all the doctors he's seen treated him with stimulants? Was ADHD his first diagnosis? Was a stimulant his first drug?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sara PA, post: 151111, member: 1498"] Because there is no definitive way to diagnose any of these disorders, there's no definitive way to treat them. All the diagnoses are based on subjective reporting and interpretation of observed behaviors. Those behaviors could be caused by any number of things, medical or otherwise. Doctors make what is only their best guess. Then they treat it with their best guess of what will work. These are, of course, educated guesses but still little more than guesses. And unfortunately there is a lot of misinformation circulating about the safety and long term effectiveness of many of these medications. These disorders for which psychtropic medications are prescribed are brain disorders -- the disagnosis implies the brain is malfunctioning. However, we still know very little about exactly [I]how[/I] the brain is malfunctioning. Few doctors order what few neurological tests are available which would sometimes pinpoint where and why the brain is malfunctioning. Medicating based on behavior alone without [I]really[/I] knowing what's going on in the brain (or exactly what many of these drugs do in the brain) is a roll of the dice. I have to ask: Have all the doctors he's seen treated him with stimulants? Was ADHD his first diagnosis? Was a stimulant his first drug? [/QUOTE]
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