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NYT Article--Debate over Children and Psychiatric
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<blockquote data-quote="Sara PA" data-source="post: 18543" data-attributes="member: 1498"><p><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Fran</div><div class="ubbcode-body">One has reinforced "condemned to a life as psychiatry patient" that these diagnosis are something that will devastate your family and your child's life. How many people will avoid any sort of diagnosis because of the fear of being condemned. Sorry my kid isn't condemned. How dare he reinforce that sort of ignorance and stereotype. Is your child condemned to a life as a diabetic or asthmatic.</div></div> </p><p>But the difference is that there are definitive means of diagnosing diabetes and asthma while there precious few absolute means of diagnosing the cause of behavioral problems. And the treatment of diabetes and asthma doesn't involve throwing any one -- or more -- drugs from a number of classes of drugs, some of which are contraindicated for some behavioral diagnosis and others aren't approved for use by children because there have been clinical trials which failed. </p><p></p><p>Comparing subjective pyschiatric diagnoses with objective medical diagnoses is not a valid comparison.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sara PA, post: 18543, member: 1498"] <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Fran</div><div class="ubbcode-body">One has reinforced "condemned to a life as psychiatry patient" that these diagnosis are something that will devastate your family and your child's life. How many people will avoid any sort of diagnosis because of the fear of being condemned. Sorry my kid isn't condemned. How dare he reinforce that sort of ignorance and stereotype. Is your child condemned to a life as a diabetic or asthmatic.</div></div> But the difference is that there are definitive means of diagnosing diabetes and asthma while there precious few absolute means of diagnosing the cause of behavioral problems. And the treatment of diabetes and asthma doesn't involve throwing any one -- or more -- drugs from a number of classes of drugs, some of which are contraindicated for some behavioral diagnosis and others aren't approved for use by children because there have been clinical trials which failed. Comparing subjective pyschiatric diagnoses with objective medical diagnoses is not a valid comparison. [/QUOTE]
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