Isn't this scary?

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Isn't this scary?
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Tue, 01-30-2007 - 12:20am

http://www.cbc.ca/national/news/normal/

I know this is not the typical but it is a possibility. I know the docs wanted to go this route with Mike continously adding more and scarier medications and even recomending hospitalization once. I am glad I am stubborn.

Lainie's post and then seeing this really hit me.

Shows us again the importance of us as parents to be advocates for our kids and to really study and learn every thing about our kids, thier diagnosis and any medications without just taking information at face value.

Not that the professionals were wrong or trying to be wrong. He was one child in a midst of many others with many workers and things were missed.

Renee




Edited 1/30/2007 12:37 am ET by rbear4
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Wed, 01-31-2007 - 12:29pm
Sorry for the late reply Renee. Yes this article is scary.I do believe kids are overmedicated. Look how much $$$ the drug companies are spending to advertise. It seems like people want a quick fix. Psychiatrists prescribe for kids all the time esp. antidepressants. I never remember kids on meds when I was young, do you? I don't fault any parent that chooses to medicate. I had my dd on Concerta (very low dose) and she was like a stepford child. She was very focused @ school but a zombie @ home. My dh wanted her off all meds. We try & go w/ natural methods & there is a lot of mumbo jumbo out there also. We tried B vits, herbal teas, diet changes,etc. I prefer talk therapy. I steer away from psychiatrists & prefer psychologists. I don't know in this article where the parents went & why the GP's took over raising both kids. They must not have been able to cope w/his behaviors. It is hard to cope for all of us. We need to take it day by day... Thanks for sharing~ MaryAnn
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Wed, 01-31-2007 - 12:59pm

Renee,


I hope my post didn't sound like I was taking issue with anything that you had said.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 01-31-2007 - 1:24pm

LOL, Brooke!

I am glad I didn't offend. I certainly didn't mean too. More to just present information. The way the issue it self was presented in the article and video was rather one sided and inflamatory. The news broadcasters like to do this and I do think that is just plain wrong and inflamatory. It is from that kind of all or nothing type reporting that others who are not in our shoes get thier absolute judgement from.

But the scary thing is that I have seen this happen with kids and I know it is too easy. Last year I was working with a little boy who was rather difficult and aggressive. His parents were at the end of thier rope and the only option presented was medication. One day I went in to work and the boy was barely able to respond, he was drooling and out of it. Not himself. It was sad. This year again, a boy who had some attention issues started a med (1st grader, pretty good kid but AS). Well one day he was supposed to come to the RSP room and I went looking for him. He was just standing about 10 feet from the door completely lost. He had come across a crack in the cement and couldn't figure out how to get around it and then forgot what he was supposed to do. This had never happened with him prior. His whole lesson was like that. He was just a different kid.

Of course you know my experiences with Mike and that is scary and I can see how this kid got on all those meds easily. For us you would start concerta and while concentration might have been a bit better, suddenly he began having really bad obsessions and tics. Well then he must have OCD and a tic disorder so lets start him on an SSRI, which made him irritable but appeared to help the OCD a little bit so lets start him on a behavior med...which affected sleep..... you can see where this is going.

Then there was Dave who started on seizures when on a stimulant. The doctors answer to that wasn't to take him off the stimulant but to put him on an anticonvulsant. OYE!

We just need to be informed.

Renee

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