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PBS "The Medicated Child" airing January 8 2008
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 112171" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Although I'm on medications for life (no choice, tried life without medications and I didn't even HAVE a life) I do think psychiatrists tend to throw scripts at kids making wild guesses about what is going on. It usually starts with stims, as if they are harmless and not abused (they ARE abused a lot with teens) and now antipsychotics. I have no doubts many kids NEED medications, but I question how hard the doctors try to find out what's wrong with our kids. I remember forty-five minutes sessions for my son and prescription pad coming out along with a confident diagnosis. And often they were wrong. I do think we medicate too much before really knowing what is wrong, and that's the faults of the professionals who don't want to dig a little deeper to make sure their first impression is right. My son could have been spared medications had they taken the time to truly evaluate him. My mind reels when I think about how fast several psychiatrists whipped out that script pad, certain they were right. Till the bitter end (our firing him) son's psychiatrist insisted he had bipolar and we'd regret weaning son off medications. Well, hate to be mean, but I'd like to see him and say, "Haha, you were WRONG." It's been over four years without medications now and he's got no moodswings at all--he's probably my most mellow kid. But he's clearly on the autism spectrum and there are no medications for that. So I am sort of in the camp that feels the medications are given out too fast and too freely. I am NOT anti-medication or I wouldn't be on medications. But I'm against quick diagnosis. without testing for everything and without consulting a neuropsychologist to rule out the Neurological things that Psychiatrists often know little about. Just my own mini-vent :wink:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 112171, member: 1550"] Although I'm on medications for life (no choice, tried life without medications and I didn't even HAVE a life) I do think psychiatrists tend to throw scripts at kids making wild guesses about what is going on. It usually starts with stims, as if they are harmless and not abused (they ARE abused a lot with teens) and now antipsychotics. I have no doubts many kids NEED medications, but I question how hard the doctors try to find out what's wrong with our kids. I remember forty-five minutes sessions for my son and prescription pad coming out along with a confident diagnosis. And often they were wrong. I do think we medicate too much before really knowing what is wrong, and that's the faults of the professionals who don't want to dig a little deeper to make sure their first impression is right. My son could have been spared medications had they taken the time to truly evaluate him. My mind reels when I think about how fast several psychiatrists whipped out that script pad, certain they were right. Till the bitter end (our firing him) son's psychiatrist insisted he had bipolar and we'd regret weaning son off medications. Well, hate to be mean, but I'd like to see him and say, "Haha, you were WRONG." It's been over four years without medications now and he's got no moodswings at all--he's probably my most mellow kid. But he's clearly on the autism spectrum and there are no medications for that. So I am sort of in the camp that feels the medications are given out too fast and too freely. I am NOT anti-medication or I wouldn't be on medications. But I'm against quick diagnosis. without testing for everything and without consulting a neuropsychologist to rule out the Neurological things that Psychiatrists often know little about. Just my own mini-vent [img]:wink:[/img] [/QUOTE]
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