Medicated World Pros And Cons

It was a normal day for Dr. Allison Winters or so she thought. She showed up to South Brook Clinic,a state funded mental institution for the mentally ill who have committed violent or other serious crimes. Dr. Winters wasn’t expecting anything new to happen today.Nothing exciting ever really happens there because due to the fact the patients she talks to are usually so heavily medicated they don’t do anything other than babble about impending armageddon and sometimes they 'd drool occasionally. These people are usually forgotten by society and most of the people who took vow to help them shove pills down their throats so they don’t have to listen to them.

Kids ages 5-7 are taking pills all over the world that could lead to more damage. About 57% of kids with A.D.H.D have one other psychiatric disorder. Boys are four times more likely to have A.D.H.D than girls. My brother has A.D.H.D and he is like a robot, or a person with no humor or no thoughts when he is on medication. So I think that kids should not be medicated because they have A.D.H.D.

In less than a years time, Kyle Warren had been seen by four different medical doctors, each one with their own diagnosis that included autism, bipolar disorder (also known as manic depression), insomnia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD). Kyle's pill regimen kept multiplying, consuming daily harmful cocktail of mind- altering drugs including Risperdal (anti-psychotic), Prozac (antidepressant), Adderall (psycho-stimulant) and two sleeping medicines. Kyle Warren was only eighteen months old at the time (Wilson 11). Kyles story is not rare, in fact, it has became what I refer to as a “to common” case. For that matter, it was a story much like this one that got me interested in the

In recent years, studies have shown that over medication has become prevalent in America. Overmedication is when a patient uses unnecessary or excessive amounts of medication. Unfortunately, a large number of people have died from over medication. This is caused by doctors or specialists prescribing too much medication to their patients, or by people taking too much medication to ease their pain without precaution. This not only affects a person physically but also mentally. If a person feels that medication is the only helping them, then they will keep taking those pills, resulting in the destruction of the body and mind. Plus millions of dollars are spent on prescription pills, which is another reason why there is so much over medication. Overmedication in America has a negative impact on society, which is leading to physical and mental damages.

Although we tend to think that drugs are here to comfort and heal people, we must also take into account that behind every drug, we have a drug company that is making millions of dollars off of consumers who by their products. Behind every consumer, we have a doctor that is recommending and prescribing the medication. In “The Medicated Child,” we learn that the researchers who advocate the use of psychiatric medications, receive enormous support from drug companies. Firsthand doctors inform us that theses drug industry funded studies influence their decisions on what drugs to “push” or prescribe. This is a major conflict of interest because the decisions and results of the studies are

It is well known that children are very easily influenced by what they see in the world, especially in the media. Disney has undoubtedly monopolized the hearts and brains of children all around tihe world, so they have an extreme amount of power in the way they portray things. Whether it be the way they portray gender, families, or mental illness, these portrayals affect their audience on a deep psychological level. The way that mental illness is portrayed is a lot harder to detect than some other topics like gender and families, but they are just as damaging. Disney needs to strive to portray mental illness as something that is genuinely human rather than something that is evil.

Recently, a well-known actress, Catherine Zeta-Jones, revealed that she has bipolar disorder and was seeking treatment for it. Furthermore, an example of a school program that assists school students in Germany with mental illness is called “Crazy? So what!” The aim of this program has been to reduce preconceptions towards people with mental illness by providing additional information on the subject. Those who suffer from mental illness are also afforded the opportunity to speak out about it and have the assistance of counsellors. So, the program has been so successful that it is being expanded to other age groups.

According to the video's statistic, the diagnosis of bipolar disorder increased to four thousand percent during the last decade. This labeling process seems to be almost a medical crime, where modern "Walter Freemans" easily manipulate and experiment the biochemical processes in the developing child's brain by using strong mood stabilizers and antipsychotic drugs. Nevertheless, it puzzled me why so many doctors do not want to start with a mild therapeutical approach. For example, in many other countries treating childhood's behavior problems with pharmaceutical substances is still almost a nonexistent practice. Instead of medications, other therapies are offered through special programs in school or kindergarten, where children learned to develop coping mechanisms.

Psychotropic medications are usually, and perhaps, overly prescribed as a first-line treatment for a range of psychiatric analyses in children in a diversity of clinical settings. A psychotropic drug (psychopharmaceutical) is a chemical material that changes brain function and results in adjustments in perception, mood, or consciousness. Consequently, these alterations often cause a bevy of side effects that create significant harm to prescribed patients. The brain of a child is infinitely more sensitive and susceptible to side effects from psychotropic drugs which makes their use even more dangerous. Adding further fuel to the fire, as Kardish states, “Children in the United States are on drugs for longer and more often than kids in any other country” (2015). Together with this dark truth, the over abundant usage and steadily increasing inclination towards psychotropic therapy amongst health professionals, is eliciting a dire and troubling situation that must be addressed by the medical horizon.

When used in the United States, the phrase ‘Socialized Medicine’ refers to the use of public funds rather than payment on an individual basis to cater for healthcare related services. The services covered under socialized medicine include hospital care, medical care and supportive care for the members of society in need of it. In other parts of the world, an equivalent of socialized medicine is universal health care. The setting up of a socialized medicine scheme in any nation is no mean feat, as it requires meticulous planning in light of the perceived advantages a well-working system presents.

During the psychopharmacology era not only, a big population of adults started to get diagnosed as mentally ill, but children too. Before this era, our society used to see children as individuals whose mood and emotions are regularly changing. Society’s expectation was that those children were going to behave differently when they grow up until psychiatry started to believe that this type of children suffer from a mental illness. According to Whitaker, Ronald Kessler, a psychiatrist from Harvard Medical School concludes “Depression, mania, and mania-like symptoms are all comparatively common among children and adolescents in the general population” (217). Some psychiatrists believe that psychiatric

In taking any medication there are always positives and negative side effects. Overprescribing medication and over diagnosing different disease in children has caused these effects to become increasingly prevent in society today. An increasing number of children and teenagers are being prescribed drugs as a “quick fix” rather than treating the root problem.

Diagnosing and drugging children has been an up and coming trend throughout America for the past ten years or so. For instance a toddler, who’s rambunctious and talkative or might not even pay attention to every word you say, might just have ADHD – Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder or in all actuality be normal! There are so many accusations that children in this day in age who act “differently” are foreseen in this society to be mentally/developmentally challenged. So what do parents’ do? Obviously they contact they’re pediatrician with concern and in the end the child is prescribed what will ultimately render them drug impaired they rest of they’re lives. But what information is out there? What can we as a society and as parents do to discard the idea of labeling our children? Director Thomas Insel of the National Institute of Mental Health posted a blog “Are Children over Medicated” and the article itself provided a statistical and factual look inside the

The apparent increase in the number of children in today’s society that are diagnosed with mental illness, especially that of bipolar disorder, does not seem to come as much of a surprise to anyone. Yet, why is this? Is the recent over-diagnosis due in part to fault within the definition of what pediatric bipolar disorder actually is? Many believe this to be the case; while others support the notion that bipolar disorder is not over diagnosed and the recent prevalence of the disorder is the result of increased awareness on the part of health professionals along with an increase in the number of children who are more readily succumbing to such a disorder. To admit to an over diagnosis should not be seen as a denial of the disease itself, but rather, the different clinical presentations of the disorder should be seen as an inconsistency among practitioners. This discrepancy results in the acknowledgment of more cases than actually exists; an admission of this over-diagnosis would be seen merely as a flaw within the ability of practitioners to reach a consensus. Such a flaw manifests itself in the over diagnosis of the disorder, which is something that, for the sake of the client as well as the field as a whole, should not be overlooked.

This has been my third time watching this program and each time I ask myself do these parents medicate their children to benefit the child or themselves? Is it that the child’s behaviors are uncontrollable or is it that the parent can’t control or not willing to control the child. As a parent you make a commitment to love and care for your child unconditionally and if your child is diagnosed with ADHD or Autism your first step should not be medicating but therapy’s that are proven to help these disorders. My son currently is diagnosed with Autism and is very hyperactive. Although it would be possible for me to get a prescription for his hyperactivity I would never do it children’s brains need to grow and change on their own.