Posted on 04/11/2005 6:28:41 PM PDT by neverdem
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"Subject is.... Not like me."
And therefore, the subject has a mental disorder, and needs therapy and medication... Expensive therapy and medication.
Using your taxes, preferably.
Until we have a nation of dependant fruitcakes, we must all be sick, apparently, for not wanting to behave their way.
Was this study done by SmithKline Beecham?
Social Anxiety Disorder was made up by them to sell more Paxil.
Thanks for posting this. I had a cousin who suffered from this, and I really didn't know that much about it. I have no idea what kind of treatment she had, but she is now a very bright, sociable, and happy young lady. Whatever her doctors did worked.
Very interesting article. My wife is a teacher, I will make sure she reads this. Thanks for posting
Bump, put me on! These poor kids. They just need loving moms and dads not drugs.
I have an idea...starve her.
The horror she might learn something and bring the wrath of the NEA down upon us.
>>(Dr. Black said that he had been a paid consultant for Eli Lilly, the maker of Prozac, and for SmithKline Beecham, but that the pharmaceutical industry had not financed any of his research.)<<
Sorry. I should have read the whole article before posting.
I don't believe in drugging kids, except in extreme cases.
I have a grand daughter who was similar. She started coming out of it by the time she was about 8 or 9 years old.
She's 16 now and won't shut up.
The school used to call our house too...neither of our two could keep their mouths shut for five minutes.
>>I can attest that you are wrong about that. My aunt and uncle are very loving to their kids, and their youngest daughter had this problem. I don't know if she was treated with drugs, but her problem was certainly not a lack of parental love.<<
Maybe the problem was that they DO love her, just the way she is. She is expected to act a certain way in school. If she doesn't, too many administrators want a quick fix.
Seratonin-Reuptake inhibitors are not the miracles that people once thought they were. They are finding many problems with them.
I would not put one into my body nor allow that for my children.
I was like this when I was around 4 or 5. I wouldn't talk to strangers, especially young women. Back then it was simply called being very shy.
I fail to see how the fact that they do love her could be a problem. She had a problem that would hinder her in her education and through out her life. It wasn't about how she acted in school, the problem affected her entire life. Her parents loved her enough to have that problem addressed and corrected. As I said earlier, I don't begin to know what kind of treatment she had, but whatever it was, it worked. She is now a very bright, energetic, outgoing young lady.
Very interesting...it caused me to ponder, perhaps a classroom full of children is not the right setting for every child? They're not all made with cookie cutters, yet schools tend to treat them as though they are. If the child otherwise functions normally, perhaps there is good reason why their defense mechanisms go into high gear at school and what is needed is not necessarily a "cure" to the situation at hand, but to try something different (i.e., homeschool?) and develop at their own pace? Or is this something that would be a lifelong problem in all social/work situations, even as an adult? I'd like to know more...what happens if you simply remove the child from the school environment where they're not functioning, will they function normally as an adult? Any studies on that angle?
"These poor kids. They just need loving moms and dads not drugs."
Nailed.
I have selective politcal mutism. i don't talk to Democrats.
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