medicating children

Started by poopnoodle September 29th, 2010 8:25 PM
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in relation to the discussion about doctors over-diagnosing in the autism thread, how do you feel about kids being diagnosed with other social "disorders" and medicated at such a young age?

i think it's clear that parents don't want to be responsible for their kids and doctors want these parents to buy into the medical industry by labeling typical children as problematic and providing the option of "treatment." in the long run i think the meds do more harm to these kids than good. there's a boy in the after school program i work at who's been on Ritalin since kindergarten. one day he forgot to take his medication and he was somewhat hyper but notably happier and well-behaved around more authoritative team members. he's in second grade now and still taking his medication, he's practically become a zombie :-(

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I think it's sick that parents and doctors alike think that they can fix a child's "flaws" through the use of a pill. Medication should be your very last resort, not a fix for what was once normal behaviour. When I was sixteen I went into a schooling program for teens in emotional crisis, and it seemed like every time I didn't jump when the teachers said so they would give my mother a call and ask her to consider medicating me. Needless to say, it made the both of us sick.

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Ritalin is screwing up the world. Some of the greatest men in history have had these 'disorders' that doctors are now prescribing drugs for. Having an active imagination and never wanting to stay in the same place are how many people are motivated, it isn't a damned flaw.

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I think parents nowadays don't want to accept that their children are imperfect, and turn to medical establishments to escape from reality. Their idea of how their child should be has been warped, and twisted, perhaps in part by the media. I am of the belief that love isn't a feeling, rather, a series of actions. Which makes it quite clear that these parents are not loving their children for who they are, instead, choosing to love their children only for who they should be, which is unreasonable and unrealistic.

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I agree with the OP on this one. It disgusts me that these children are labeled as defective and drugged down to "normal" stupid levels. It's really only genetic variations happening, not defects. Now sure, if they're REALLY negatively impacted by a mental disorder, then yes it's ok to medicate mildly. But the level at which they medicate and diagnose kids just goes to show how damn lazy parents are nowadays.

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This is probably why a lot of kids these days are so messed up. Parents these days are too lazy or too busy to deal with normal child problems, so they go to doctors to pump them full of pills they don't need and mess them up for life. It's also another factor that programs that would help kids with issues are being cut due to this crappy economy by states all over the country.

If parents these days have some sick idea of what they want their children to be, I want to slap them hard!
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I was diagnosed with ADD as a child and took Ritalin for a number of years, when I didn't think I even had a problem. I never understood why I had to take it in the first place. I constantly feel bored and tired nowadays, and I'm wondering if it might be due to all that Ritalin I took as a kid.

I also was loaded up on allergy medication as a child, but unlike the Ritalin, I KNEW I needed to take that medicine.

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I was diagnosed with ADD as a child and took Ritalin for a number of years, when I didn't think I even had a problem. I never understood why I had to take it in the first place. I constantly feel bored and tired nowadays, and I'm wondering if it might be due to all that Ritalin I took as a kid.

I also was loaded up on allergy medication as a child, but unlike the Ritalin, I KNEW I needed to take that medicine.
i'm the same, and i was treated with ritalin as a child. then again, my lifestyle as of late has been somewhat sedentary but before i moved i was quite active but still lethargic. it's grown worse, and im not sure if it's "just me" or a long-term byproduct of the ritalin. i was talking about this with someone else recently, and noted how silly it is that we may "worsen" a person in attempts to "better" them when they never had issues to begin with, and its something parents and doctors should take into consideration before stuffing kids with medication.

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I grew up being a guinea pig of sorts for all kinds of pills and dosages for this manic-depressive disorder I have. It always bothered me that my mom thought I 'needed' pills of some kind to function or else I'd wind up like the people in whatever absurd stories she'd heard via our wonderful media. What I 'needed' was to get away from living there where I couldn't grow and be somewhere where I could, and work on my emotional instability on my own. And guess what? I was right. I've learned out here that as I've gotten better at keeping my emotions at bay, my 'problem' is just as much a quirk or simple human flaw as any other, and not this huge deal my mom made it out to be (although it was a big problem when I was a kid, but I think environment had a lot to do with it).

I don't believe in pills as a way to 'fix' anything like that, unless it really is on such a level of severity that no other method works on its own, and even then, pills should only be a supplementary treatment. The focus should be on helping a person help themselves and not trying to take the lazy way out. Pills also imply disease or that something's 'wrong'. I hate that. Parents need to give kids the chance to learn that if they have a problem, there is something they can do, and work with them, not assume the kid is 'broken' and just pump them full of pills. That gives the kid the impression that they're inherently defective or even that their parents don't believe in them or are too lazy to help in a real way.




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