[netmilsmom]

Wow! Well, I guess if she were to have the fortitude to overcome Seratonin reuptake, God Bless her. Many people need just a little help. I liken taking Paxil, Prozac and Zoloft to taking insulin. Some people just need it.

(Maybe not as young as this article! If I had a preschooler come into my ex-boss' office, we'd be evaluating the family life)

[cyborg]

She's just old fashioned. I took zoloft once and it made me ill so I can't imagine giving children these same meds. I think drugging kids is a good way of ignoring other issues.

[Lizavetta]

I tend to think that 'chemical imbalances' in the brain and attention deficit' are manufactured ailments pushed relentlessly by the drug companies, the psych industry, and the schools.

Whoever came up with ADD/ADHD as a disorder was brilliant. Take the most common and annoying adolescent behaviors (not paying attention, being distracted, being defiant to authority, etc.), redefine them as symptoms of an illness (thus deflecting blame from crappy parenting and ineffective classroom control) and everyone's happy......the schools who make more off 'learning disabled' students, parents who can sedate their troublesome children with everyone's blessing, and the drug companies who make a fortune.

Except now America's kids are dopers who are using drugs for which it's not known the long term effects and for which the drug companies have hidden case studies of.