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NYT Article--Debate over Children and Psychiatric
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<blockquote data-quote="pepperidge" data-source="post: 18520" data-attributes="member: 2322"><p>Partly I posted the article because I thought it showed what a sorry state child psychiatry is in. We have supposed experts arguing over things with fundamentally different perspectives. lack of drug trials on children. DSM that doesn't fit the world of the children we deal with on a day to day basis. And then we have psychiatrists who don't even appear to be up on the latest thinking about drugs and pass that info along. </p><p></p><p>My sense is that until we get some physical diagnostic tests a lot of these controversies are not going to go away.</p><p></p><p>From reading this board, I know that none of us makes the decision to medicate our children lightly and certainly we are not doing it to render them catatonic. I don't even think that is a worthwile avenue to go down here. </p><p></p><p>And I know that we are all frustrated about the trial and error basis of it all. </p><p></p><p>So I guess it is just a vent on my part.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pepperidge, post: 18520, member: 2322"] Partly I posted the article because I thought it showed what a sorry state child psychiatry is in. We have supposed experts arguing over things with fundamentally different perspectives. lack of drug trials on children. DSM that doesn't fit the world of the children we deal with on a day to day basis. And then we have psychiatrists who don't even appear to be up on the latest thinking about drugs and pass that info along. My sense is that until we get some physical diagnostic tests a lot of these controversies are not going to go away. From reading this board, I know that none of us makes the decision to medicate our children lightly and certainly we are not doing it to render them catatonic. I don't even think that is a worthwile avenue to go down here. And I know that we are all frustrated about the trial and error basis of it all. So I guess it is just a vent on my part. [/QUOTE]
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