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

[staircase-wit.livejournal.com]

I'm mixed about this. On one hand, I don't want anyone to be given a drug that perminantly changes brain functioning and might leave them as meth-whores. On the other hand, I was a fairly quiet "good boy" in school who was harrased mercilessly by little shits. Medicating the little shits might prevent others from having to go through the hell I went through.

Ultimately, I'd like to see children forced into following adult laws when it comes to harrasment and assult. People think I'm stupid or crazy for wanting this, but I've wanted it from the first moment that I realized that if adults did to other adults what these children were doing to me, they would go to jail.

Trouble is...

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

The problem is, though, they're *not* medicating the aggressive brat kids, they're medicating the ones that just behave oddly. You might remember that it's normally the little shitheads that are obedient enough to endear themselves to adults, then they turn around and beat up on the "weird" kid as soon as they know the adults won'will find an excuse to not notice.

Re: Trouble is...

[staircase-wit.livejournal.com]

Granted.

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

Ritalin will only make the little shits more hyper.

They need sedatives if we're gonna medicate them.

Look at it this way: ritalin and adderal stimulate the same areas of the brain as caffeine.

[conuly]

There's a reason Lizziey was able to sell that shit to addicts.

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

Yup.

And I'll be going to college with a prescription of adderal.

Must reason... making... money... is illegal... >

[marveen.livejournal.com]

I'll also point out that oftentimes the worst bullies are the ones who like bossing others around enough to go for administrative positions in the schools. (I saw this happen in the school I went to during my school years. Two kids who were the nastiest bullies ended up as principal of the middle school and superintendant of the whole district.)

Naturally, they think of their own childhood behavior as ordinary and even justifiable, so they excuse it when it is repeated by the students under their authority.

[conuly]

Naturally, they think of their own childhood behavior as ordinary and even justifiable, so they excuse it when it is repeated by the students under their authority.

They're better than the ones who were abused and still encourage it because "well, I suffered". !!!!!!!!!!