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WHY ARE SUCH A A HIGH PERCENTAGE OF CHILDREN LABELED WITH ADD AND OTHER DISORDERS? IS THIS A LEGITIMATE PROBLEM?

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WHY ARE SUCH A A HIGH PERCENTAGE OF CHILDREN LABELED WITH ADD AND OTHER DISORDERS? IS THIS A LEGITIMATE PROBLEM?


[+] ballot by jappy
ACTIVE Thu Jun 01, 06 - Tue Feb 24, 09

Kid Being Noisy During Whore Island On Fox? SEDATE HIM!!!

I have to wonder sometimes just what society is coming to when such a high percentage of children are labeled as ADD and ADHD and then put on drugs and/or into counseling. I myself was labeled hyperactive, which I thought was bad at the time, but there is no doubt in my mind that some dipshit in a suit with a psychology degree would have diagnosed me ADD and had me popping Ritalin like candy. What is it with psychiatrists and psychologists that they have a need to label as many people as they can with emotional and mental disorders? As though that question even needs to be asked, it’s all about money and name recognition, if you would believe the conspiracy theorists.

While I have no doubt there is a measure of truth to that theory, I believe that in the long run it boils down to lazy behavior. If children came with an instruction manual from God, it would say they are energetic, have a short attention span, are loud and boisterous, and require continual supervision until a specific age. Parents no longer feel it should be their responsibility to take care of their children. “Oh, my kid doesn’t sit down and watch tv, he runs around and acts silly all the time, doctor, we need help.” Why not tell the fucking truth? “Doctor, I’m a lazy piece of shit parent, my kid is normal but I want to drug him up so that I don’t have to take care of him or supervise him so he learns good behaviors, we need help.” That’s the story here, it’s not about kids with problems, it’s about PARENTS with problems.

The whole idea of using drugs to sedate children is disgusting, because when you do that, you develop a need in children for chemically related outside sources of help to cope with the world. What does this say? It should be obvious, if it’s okay for a child to be taking drugs at age 4 and up, when they reach the teenage years they believe it is totally acceptable to go on their own and start in with alcohol, cigarettes, weed, or worse. Anyone who doesn’t believe that using Ritalin and other drugs of that type act as a gateway to elicit drug use later on is an ignorant fool.

It would be wonderful if parents, teachers, administrators, and doctors of all types would quit trying to label all children as abnormal because they don’t meet over restrictive guidelines, guidelines imposed by a society that seems to try to weed out creativity and differences in children that make them unique and wonderful.

So, is this a legitimate way of handling children in our society?

Yes, there is a legitimate problem, and in most cases this is the correct course of action.
No, this is more about lazy parents and administrators than a problem with children.


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COMMENTS:
Children have been acting like this forever.

Good question.
by mojo on Thu Jun 01, 06 4:26am [+]

If the parents had to go on Ritalin for a couple of days before they gave it to their children, the number of ADD cases would massively plummet. It and similar medications can be helpful in the small number of legitimate cases of ADD and in people with brain injuries.

Most of these medications are stimulants and very addictive. We are breeding a whole new generation of drug addicts.
by FiddleFaddleOnLSD on Thu Jun 01, 06 5:40am [+]

Yeah, it's mostly just lazy parents. Some kids legitimately have a problem, but for the other 99% on ritalin it's simply a way to keep them from acting like children because it inconvienences mom and dad.
by herzog on Thu Jun 01, 06 5:56am [+]

For every real case of ADD there are about 10 illegitimate cases. Lots of parents just use Ritalin to shut up their kids.
by nuckinfutz on Thu Jun 01, 06 6:51am [+]

Plus I don't think that most parents understand what kind of drug Ritalin really is. I agree with Fiddle; if all parents knew that it's a powerful narcotic very similar to amphetamines, the prescription rate would go down drastically.
by nuckinfutz on Thu Jun 01, 06 7:21am [+]

And now, THIS should illustrate the bullshit that the modern psychological community is shoveling:

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The prescription of antipsychotic medications for children and adolescents in the US increased nearly 6-fold between 1993 and 2002, according to survey results.

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The US Food and Drug Administration has approved only three antipsychotic drugs - haloperidol, thioridazine hydrochloride and pimozide -- for use in patients younger than 18 years, but most of the prescriptions written were for newer medications.

"What was most striking is that nearly one in five -- 18 percent -- of visits to psychiatrists by young people resulted in their being prescribed an antipsychotic medication," lead investigator Dr. Mark Olfson told Reuters Health.

Interest in this issue followed "earlier studies that reported significant increases in the use of antipsychotics by young people within the Medicaid population," the researcher added. "We wanted to find out if this was a general trend that more broadly affects the mental health care of youths in the US."

Olfson, from Columbia University in New York City, and his associates therefore evaluated data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. Their findings appear in the Archives of General Psychiatry.

The data indicate that "there is a gap between what has been learned in carefully controlled studies and what is actually occurring in practice," the researcher noted.

Approximately 90 percent of antipsychotics prescribed were for the second-generation drugs -- clozapine, risperidone, olanzapine, and quetiapine. None of these drugs are approved for treating adolescents or children.

The researchers note that these drugs were prescribed primarily for disruptive behavior disorders (37.8 percent), mood disorders (31.8 percent), or pervasive developmental disorders or mental retardation (17.3 percent). Only 14.2 percent were prescribed for psychotic disorders.

"It is my guess," Olfson said, that the "water cooler effect," in which "physicians learn from one another informally" during discussions or attendance at professional meetings, "has probably contributed to the dissemination of these kinds of prescribing practices."

A major concern, Olfson said "is that we don't know enough about the metabolic effects of newer antipsychotics, particularly the long-term effects in young people."

SOURCE: Archives of General Psychiatry, June 2006.

by jappy on Wed Jun 07, 06 4:46am [+]






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