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NYT Article--Debate over Children and Psychiatric
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<blockquote data-quote="slsh" data-source="post: 18613" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>I'm torn on this one. One one hand, I have a hard time wrapping my head around a 2 y/o being diagnosed and medicated for BiPolar (BP). </p><p></p><p>on the other hand, if you have a trusted physician diagnosing and medicating.... as parents, we can only try to make informed choices and that involves following medical advice that makes sense to us. Not all of us have medical degrees. Not all of our informed choices turn out to be good ones. </p><p></p><p>"Condemned to life as a psychiatric patient". Give me a break. Beats the heck out of condemned to life as an untreated severely mentally ill person. </p><p></p><p>I can think of very few board members over the years who have gotten a "quick fix" with- medications. I think it does a huge disservice to parents to suggest that we just want our kids to pop a pill and voila, instant easy child. As if it worked that way anyway.</p><p></p><p>BiPolar (BP) may be overused as a diagnosis but I think the article misses a huge point it's actually making:</p><p></p><p>"In just the last decade, the rate of bipolar diagnosis in children under 13 has increased almost sevenfold, according to a study based on hospital discharge records."</p><p></p><p>Be interesting to know how much the *hospitalization* rate of aggressive/raging children under 13 has increased over the last decade. </p><p></p><p>At the end of the day, there are some children who do not respond to typical behavior management, who have excessive and extreme rage reactions to daily life, who are not able to function consistently in their home communities, and who do show some improvement on medication. Good heavens, I'm open to any alternatives if they would help improve thank you's quality of life. I don't care what diagnosis you give him, I don't care if you want me to dance under the harvest moon naked... if it helps my kid *function*, I'm there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slsh, post: 18613, member: 8"] I'm torn on this one. One one hand, I have a hard time wrapping my head around a 2 y/o being diagnosed and medicated for BiPolar (BP). on the other hand, if you have a trusted physician diagnosing and medicating.... as parents, we can only try to make informed choices and that involves following medical advice that makes sense to us. Not all of us have medical degrees. Not all of our informed choices turn out to be good ones. "Condemned to life as a psychiatric patient". Give me a break. Beats the heck out of condemned to life as an untreated severely mentally ill person. I can think of very few board members over the years who have gotten a "quick fix" with- medications. I think it does a huge disservice to parents to suggest that we just want our kids to pop a pill and voila, instant easy child. As if it worked that way anyway. BiPolar (BP) may be overused as a diagnosis but I think the article misses a huge point it's actually making: "In just the last decade, the rate of bipolar diagnosis in children under 13 has increased almost sevenfold, according to a study based on hospital discharge records." Be interesting to know how much the *hospitalization* rate of aggressive/raging children under 13 has increased over the last decade. At the end of the day, there are some children who do not respond to typical behavior management, who have excessive and extreme rage reactions to daily life, who are not able to function consistently in their home communities, and who do show some improvement on medication. Good heavens, I'm open to any alternatives if they would help improve thank you's quality of life. I don't care what diagnosis you give him, I don't care if you want me to dance under the harvest moon naked... if it helps my kid *function*, I'm there. [/QUOTE]
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