WTF?

[conuly]

Spending Soars for Children's Behavioural Meds

They're now giving behavioural medication for children under five? Ritalin? For AD(H)D for children under five years of age? What is WRONG with people? At five years old, do you really know if the child isn't just being a little absentminded and hyper? You know, like five year olds are supposed to be? If they're prescribing medication that early, can we really trust people to actually try teaching these kids how to behave and control themselves? More importantly, do we really know what these medications do to young children when they take them for several years?

Of course, I don't really know enough about this to talk. So I'll hush now.

Comments

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

You know how much it pisses me off to see the overmedication of society.

Especially because no one takes people with problems seriously anymore. My seriously bi-polar buddy gets loads of "oh, me too! I'm on medication A for it" "Funny... that's not a bi-polar med." "Oh yeah, yeah!? What're you on?" "Lithium."

The Obscenely Annoying Girl I was with at Bryn Mawr said her doctor wanted to prescribe Zoloft for her manic depression. WHY do people want these disorders and lie about it!? They're not fun!

[conuly]

Y'know, my sister was on Lithium for a while. She wasn't supposed to be, but the foster care system sucks and they put her on whatever they could rather than pay attention to her. She actually was hallucinating, and she had to flip out in bed for them to take her off of it. Or so she says.

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

The stuff's absolutely crazy, especially if you don't need to be on it. They're working on safer drugs for bi-polars, because there's a major issue where pregnant women have to stop using it.