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I started thinking about this subject this morning.
I was reflecting on my own life as a kid and preteen.
I mean do we really think that medicating kids is the way? Its better than teaching them how to deal with the ups and downs of life on thier own? Because god forbid the child feel any pain and or Emotion?!
What are we turning into?
Has it got so bad that parents just dont want to deal with thier kids at all anymore, what do they want kids for? Are they some kind of fashion statement now? Or is it just what is expected? Why are people having kids when they dont want to actually take care of them as parents do?
Have we become such a socity that we are going to take the easy way out instead of tioling through the dirt and grime and pressure to come out as dimonds?
I remember when I was 8 I started having my issues with OCD. But instead of getting the proper diagnosis, I was just given a anti-depressant. I was on that for a few years, but if anything it made matters worse.
I got to a point that I couldnt function. I couldnt eat or touch certain things because of its texture, I couldnt wear certain things because of how it felt, I had to count every chew, I had to touch a cup 8 times before I could drink from it, I had to put my feet on the ground 8 times before I could get out of bed. I would brush my teeth so hard they would bleed, I would wash my hands so many times that layers of skin would come off. All these things were just consuming me.
Eventually I stopped eating all together, it was just easier, and dropped to 85 pounds at the age of 14. I think at that point I was the happiest Ive ever been because it was just one less thing to worry about.
It was my older brother that finally did something.
He called the hospital and told them what was going on, and they sent DCSF out to my house.
I finally got some of the help I needed. But once again it was medication. They had me on 4 different medications, the one I remember the most is Lithium.
Lithium is like a labotomy in a pill... I didnt feel.. I didnt think.. I just was. It was horrible. I was never happy, never sad, never anything! I think it was the closest I ever came to wanting to kill myself. Why exsist if you cant feel?
I did go through behavioral therepy to help with my OCD symptoms and a little with my eating disorder. It helped a bit. But something they didnt tell me is woth OCD your onset symptoms will transfer into other symptoms, so yeah you may get over one issue but after a while another issue will crop up to take its place.
I was never really taught how to cope with life, all these things I was going through were just covered up with medication. The most help i ever got was my 6 months of behavioral therepy. Which honestly should have been alot longer than 6 months.
I look around me and listen to all these things going on, all the sad kids shooting up thier schools. All have a history of medication use for depression. I mean really people can you not see a link here!
When are we going to learn that it is more powerful to teach some one to have control over themselves and thier lives.
To teach coping skills to our kids is so important!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stop stuffing pills down their throats and talk to them!!!
If you worried half as much about your kids as you do about your job and money maybe your kids wouldnt need all this medication, because they would have parents that are there to teach them how to handle life!
Below is a snip from the Washtington Post on the subject that I found very interesting:
"There was a time in the profession of child psychiatry when doctors insisted on hours of evaluation of a child before making a diagnosis or prescribing a medication. Today some of my colleagues in psychiatry brag that they can make an initial assessment of a child and write a prescription in less than 20 minutes. Some parents tell me it took their pediatrician only five minutes. Who's the winner in this race?
Unfortunately, when a child is diagnosed with a mental illness, almost everyone benefits. The schools get more state funding for the education of a mentally handicapped student. Teachers have more subdued students in their already overcrowded classrooms. Finally, parents are not forced to examine their poor parenting practices, because they have the perfect excuse: Their child has a chemical imbalance.
The only loser in this equation is the child. It is the child who must endure the side effects of these powerful drugs and be burdened unnecessarily with the label of a mental illness. Medicating a child, based on a misdiagnosis, is a tragic injustice for the child: His or her only advocate is the parent who lacked the courage to apply appropriate discipline.
Well-intentioned but misinformed teachers, parents using the Internet to diagnose their children, and hurried doctors are all a part of the complex system that drives the current practice of misdiagnosing and overmedicating children. The solution lies in the practice of good, conscientious medicine that is careful, thorough and patient-centered.
Parents need to be more careful with whom they entrust their child's mental health care. Doctors need to take the time to understand their pediatric patients better and have the courage to deliver the bad news that sometimes a child's disruptive, aggressive and defiant behavior is due to poor parenting, not to a chemical imbalance such as bipolar disorder or ADHD."
Washington Post: By Elizabeth J. Roberts
Sunday, October 8, 2006
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Posted by Thin_Inside on 2007-12-20 13:25:04 | Rating: | Views: 96
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I agree that children are misdiagnosed alot...but...I think it is unfair to persecute all parents of this..my daughter is mentally disabled, has been diagnosed, misdiagnosed, in the hospital, out and in again...I have owned up to my sometimes less than lackluster parenting of years past, went through therapy to help her, family therapy, you name it I have done it...but sometimes it is unavoidable..there is no other options but to try and help with meds, I think it is an unfair judgement to be made by someone that has not had to go through it with their own child...
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Posted by Rajah1116
on 2007-12-20 14:19:21
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I am not one of those parents! I am the one that will rebel against drugs that the Doctors want to hand out like candy. This is what I blogged about today. This is the way the Government will eventually control us. Thru the Doctors over medicating us, starting with our children. We need to take a stand and not accept this shit.
If we dont take a stand for our children then who will.
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Posted by trevorjohn
on 2007-12-20 15:08:10
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