Psychiatric sins?

Question

In some western countries children as young as 7 are regularly given major neuroleptic drugs to "modify" their behaviour and mood. I consider this to be non consentual, invasive and shows an abysmal ignorance about the way we are and develop.
This occurs more in countries that have the most psychiatrists.
Could this be a case of someone inventing a problem which can only be fixed by them?

You are right in some respects Dr Rose, but I find psychiatry today to be clinically biased towards diagnosis and prescription when other modalities could be tried, such as bringing back the hospitals and their associated centralised therapies such as art, user involvement & cognitive imaging disciplines.
As for me, I have had 30 years being borderline psychotic and am just coming out of it, I sound jaundiced as I have a dim view of the psychiatric profession due to being screwed around by ignorant psychiatric simpletons who are only in it for status and to feel adequate. There are a LOT of them. Getting rid of the hospitals was a bad move, all it did was to shift the mentally ill into prison instead of hospital, now they are a Laura Norder problem, not a medical one.
Abuse does happen, it happens more than it did.

PS, if these children are representative of the incidence of mental illness in the wider world, why are 30% of them on long term medication when the proportion of adult mental illness is 10%? Are they more crazy than adults? If that were true why has something so close and well known to us as our children's behaviour gone unnoticed for the past 10,000 years?

Answer 1

All I know is that I'd have been happier and healtheir had someone listened to me after I was sexually abused as a child instead of sticking me on anti-depressants.

For the most part, I think it is laziness. Wonder, cure-all drugs. No need to give the child counselling or help them overcome the trauma of abuse - just give them some pills and send them on thier way.

Answer 2

you may have a point, but I can tell you having worked with some families in these situations - some do need them! Just to live a decent life and ba able to learn in school, in many cases it helps them choose right over wrong and causing themselves and their families serious grief and harm.
It occurs in countries that have the most psychiatrists because those countries have the wealth and ability to do the research on the drugs, also.
Also please try to think of it from the docotrs perspective......many people today go to doctors or ER or psychiatrist expecting a medical cure, and answer to all their problems. We still don't have magic wands -we can only use whatever drugs and facilities are available to us. No decent doctor would prescribe these drugs unless absolutely necessary - it is not the doctors fault there are families with children that have so many issues! Come work with me for a day, I can show you families where it has helped improves quality of life, stop crime, aggression within families and even helped saved lives, I really can!

Answer 3

Yes, they use it to control people beginning in their childhood. They do not want people to be outspoken, creative, leaders or smarter than the "establishment" They want sheeple, not people. It is not a new concept, it has been utilised for centuries in different forms, like terrorism, mass murders, raping, pillaging, you get the idea. I suggest reading the book "Anthem" by Ayn Rand. It give a fantastic description of that type of society in a fiction book. It is fascinating and disturbing because it is very easy to relate to the troubles of the main character. As a famous man once said, "May the road rise with you." Peace out and rise up!

Answer 4

I totally agree. The practice itself defines the illness and the treatment thereof. This is done obsessively in advertising, where "wants" are created as "needs" to sell discretionary items to those who don't need it while those who do suffer. In psychiatry though, the process is not so indirect as marketing, rather, it is direct and has tangible consequences in terms of health and lifestyle.
Advertising and psychiatry are, alike, both answers to a fast-food society. No one wants to waste time treating things anymore. It is easier to just throw perceivable "quick" solutions at it.
To stem off the efforts of these "problem inventors" is the responsibility of parents for their kids. Kids are actually subjected to everything without consent (culture;religion;lifestyle)-we just hope that parents will implement reasoning.

Answer 5

I came across a question in mental health a few weeks ago about a woman who's young son ( I think about 12 years old) who was pulling out his hair, there were many answers but one stuck in my mind, they said, I done that when I was young, they didn't call it an anxiety disorder they said 'WHAT THE **CK ARE YOU DOING, STOP THAT' we have become too PC and too complacent. Mind you I'm not saying bring back the birch or anything but we have become soft, and our children know it.

Answer 6

The problem has not been invented, but the pseudo-solution most certainly has. We start from societies that have lost their way in terms of moral values. The "shoulds" and "mustn'ts" of our former autocratic, heirarchical, male Christian masters have rightly been thrown out. But nothing has replaced them, leaving "I want" to usurp control of young minds. What is needed is real education in human values in a context of democratic, person-centred, self-esteem building parenting and schooling.

Answer 7

It could be, and I have also heard the theory that multiple vaccinations are a cause of the type of behavior problems being treated, due to the mercury and other factors in the vaccines. There is also a possible strong connection between downs syndrome and vaccines.

Answer 8

I agree with you. Any psychiatrist worth his salt would use an alternative therapy before drugs.

Answer 9

I'd really like more info....why are they given these drugs....what part of them is it to "modify"...behaviour, mood....are we talking..."normal" behaviour in children or ...out of control.....
i dont agree with giving children drugs....but what "behavioural" aspects are we talking about....phycological,,emotional,.abuse..please elaborate...

Answer 10

I think it conveys govenmental backing to find the easiest route to a problem,barbarrick xxxx