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Originally Posted by graciegirl
Having an anxiety disorder is very common and frequently follows a bout with a life threatening illness. Having Schizophrenia, Bi Polar disorder or being Manic Depressive is much more uncommon. In fact none of them has any real connection with mild anxiety or depression.
Sertraline is one of the most widely prescribed medications in the world. And although I think that some of the A.D.D. drugs are over prescribed for children I have not read any valid studies that indicate that their use causes them to use recreational drugs later in life.
OCD is very common indeed and in fact if a lopsided picture makes you want to correct it, you may have a touch.
Medication for anxiety is not for the weak in character, it is for anyone who has faced some overwhelming events, usually.
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Are we over medicating our children?
Click on this link to read at leisure......
Ritalin (methylphenidate) Side Effects and Warnings
Depression:
Manic Depression says it all. Sometimes up; sometimes down.
Wild mood fluctuations. The manic side may be perceived as "life of the party"; energetic always on the go........until the depressive side hits...
They are then so depressed they do not want to get out of bed.
Schizophrenia, Manic Depression and Bi Polar Disorder may not be common where you are, but they certainly are common in our town.
Perhaps it is just discussed more up here as we live in a neighborhood with doctors and nurses as friends and neighbors........our town/neighborhood hospital is affiliated with Dartmouth University's hospital.
We've seen adult sons of neighbors on a lifetime of Lithium and Haldol for their schizophrenia and the cross their parents had to bear.
We've seen young moms up and down with their Bi Polar symptoms....
Grand schemes and things that average people get exhausted just listening to.....as with manic depression.
We've seen young people with anxiety handed out meds like they were candy.......until they finally just took the matter into their own hands and flushed them down the toilet.
Our society is over medicated.........and all of these drugs have side effects............just as processed foods have side effects if consumed in quantity.......or habitually.........
I know what Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is. I know grandparents whose grandchildren were put on drugs for that........after "cutting" themselves.......and young moms who clean constantly.......and so on and so forth. I also know people who have "washed their money" or are constantly washing their hands.......
Believe me, we have interesting dialogue and conversations...........
Must be the weather up here (or something in the water).........
Actually, it is snowing out now............
We just skyped with our littlest grandbabies and what a joy to see such active little girls with energy and love to spare.......they recognize us on the video cam and want to show us all of their toys....."Grandma", "Grandpa".........that's our drug of choice. Pure joy and happiness.
There is no alternative for us....as everyone we have witnessed who has been put on meds becomes more "unnatural" than whatever anxiety disorder they initially exhibited. The meds do a number on them.
It's not a perfect science, to say the least.