More and more kids are on drugs ... anti depressants - via prescription and they DON’T KNOW the impact on a developing brain. Never mind that these drugs alter the chemicals in the brain and ENCOURAGE suicide.
This next generation will be a dozy. Very scary out there. Of course when they act out as each of the school shootings have done, NO ONE looks at the DRUGS they took or have TAKEN that have had a chemical hand in screwing them up. NOPE! Drug companies just come up with MORE drugs.
The problem is a troubled soul. NO drug will cure that. That problem takes time to work out with HUMAN BEINGS; not chemicals. Then again, in our selfish narcissist society it's easier to shove a pill in the mouth of someone that is troubled in our rushed world.
Frankly, it's perfectly NORMAL to have days when we feel "blue" when events don't go our way. That when FRIENDS and FAMILY should step in to lift us up. Ideally pray to God for His help. Instead we want to handle it ourselves through pills or drugs like marijuana. Bandages for neglected soul issues.
On a related note to what you posted, I saw a Frontline a couple of weeks ago about children on drugs. I know most FReepers would have been pulling out their hair if they had watched it with me.
They showed one poor little boy when he was about 4. Seemed like a normal 4 year old boy to me—running around, active. The parents eventually had him on 7-8 drugs at ONE time. Now the boy is a teenager and he has a permanent thing where he rolls his head sporadically—he can’t control it. And the parents STILL have him on multiple medications. The boy’s life has been ruined!
They said the new thing is all these kids are bi-polar. We all remember the little girl not too long ago that died at 4 YEARS OLD! because of what she was taking. Well one family in this Frontline episode saw that story on the news. So they went to the psychiatrist/drug pusher/Dr. Frankenstein to see if they should have the boy’s dose lowered because he was on the same meds as the little girl that died. They walked out of there with a new, different prescription. This boy was also on many different drugs.
These kids are guinea pigs. It made me so upset. I’m so glad that our family resisted considerable pressure to get our oldest son on medication. It’s been hard but I’d rather just deal with an un-medicated hyper butt child, than experiment on his brain.
Needless to say, I’m not a pill popper. I have to have a severe headache even to take some pain reliever. I’m not against all medication, but we’ve got a society now that doesn’t want to feel a moment of discomfort—physically or emotionally.