This is a total crock. Just because some doctors are too quick to diagnose this disease, and end up incorrectly diagnosing some people who dont actually have it, doesn't mean it's a "fictitious disease". There most certainly are children who have it, and who are making their own and their families' lives a living hell with wild, unpredictable mood swings including violence. Very often there are other children in the household, living with the same biological parents, eating the same diet, going to the same schools, and behaving normally.
Not everybody is the same, some people have mineral absorption problems, and other issues, claiming it’s mental is not science, there is no evidence. It is physical, yes, but their bodies are not lacking Zyprexa, rather, other healthy minerals, vitamins, and amino acids ...
Why not try fish oil, zinc and vitamins FIRST? That’s the problem I have with modern medicine. A doctor just reaches for a prescription pad and to heck with the side effects. We’ll just write another prescription for that side effect and on it goes.
“This is a total crock. Just because some doctors are too quick to diagnose this disease, and end up incorrectly diagnosing some people who dont actually have it, doesn’t mean it’s a “fictitious disease”. There most certainly are children who have it, and who are making their own and their families’ lives a living hell with wild, unpredictable mood swings including violence. Very often there are other children in the household, living with the same biological parents, eating the same diet, going to the same schools, and behaving normally.”
I stopped reading the article there also. I know folks who are bipolar. It is plenty real and it’s far more than subtle nutritional imbalances.
>>Very often there are other children in the household, living with the same biological parents, eating the same diet, going to the same schools, and behaving normally. <<
It’s a chemical imbalance treated by Serotonin reuptake inhibitors.
People can “say” it’s imaginary or that this is easily treated with a change of diet, but until you’ve lived with someone who is manic, you will never know.
This is not playtime. When your fourteen year old, who is bigger than you, agitated and breaking furniture, laughing with glee, something needs to be done and experimenting with diet isn’t it.