tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608061413873231665.post3613634565644300685..comments2024-03-20T03:13:34.206-07:00Comments on Psych Gripe: Is that Thorazine in the Baby's Bottle?Vircazhm Magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01087601235530226889noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608061413873231665.post-21765726820677787302011-01-24T08:35:04.791-08:002011-01-24T08:35:04.791-08:00Okay, added my profile and contact links. Thanks ...Okay, added my profile and contact links. Thanks for noting it.Vircazhm Magazinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01087601235530226889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608061413873231665.post-77038112129592172422011-01-19T22:22:10.124-08:002011-01-19T22:22:10.124-08:00Just excellent post. So many great points. Looking...Just excellent post. So many great points. Looking for a contact page and completely failing. Very interested in potentially cross posting on THCB. el.irvine at gmail dot com<br /><br />john irvine<br />executive editor<br />THCB<br /><br />http://www.thehealthcareblog.comUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02813910242483784562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608061413873231665.post-81973927283354940832011-01-14T06:32:45.080-08:002011-01-14T06:32:45.080-08:00Even if the kids had a "true" case of ea...Even if the kids had a "true" case of early-onset schizophrenia, use of antipsychotic medications do not treat or cure the underlying disorder, it just treats the symptoms (in some cases), sedating them, hence decreasing tantrums, outlandish behavior, and psychotic symptoms. It's pretty clear 50 years after the introduction of thorazine that there is very little support for the chemical imbalance model. One kids are put on these drugs, it pretty much forever disrupts their development, and often they have to be put on some sort of "drug cocktail" (such an ugly term) for life. Antipsychotics also disrupt dopaminergic input to the frontal cortex and can actually cause atrophy and diminished executive functioning, so why any child should be prescribed these drugs is beyond me. I feel like often it is done in children with extreme behaviors in situations where residential or behavioral treatments are too expensive.<br /><br />Definitely agree that the main culprit here is psychiatry, listening to whatever spoonfed information they are given in med school, accepting at face value that "atypical antipsychotics are the first line treatment for psychosis", no matter the situation or whatever terrible side effects they produce, this is just how they know to treat people. I think the medical education system needs to provide a firmer background in research, because the data pretty clearly suggests that antipsychotics, antidepressants, anti-anxiety drugs, etc. have little efficacy and are heavily over-prescribed, yet the practices do not change.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15177153664329844999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608061413873231665.post-11855411389836623212011-01-12T02:15:49.848-08:002011-01-12T02:15:49.848-08:00Excellent post.
In my view the real culprit is di...Excellent post.<br /><br />In my view the real culprit is diagnosis. Once you diagnose a child with Bipolar Disorder, some kind of heavy-duty medication becomes inevitable because in adults with bipolar, it's the norm. And in adults who <i>actually</i> have bipolar, it's probably helpful.<br /><br />But the idea that children can be bipolar is both extremely new, and almost entirely confined to the USA, as I argued in <a href="http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2010/01/brief-history-of-bipolar-kids.html" rel="nofollow">a post a while back</a> based on academic publications, but really, you only have to look at it to see that's true.<br /><br />With all the other diagnoses, these are likewise expanding; at least autism <i>is</i> a disease of childhood, but it's being diagnosed more and more; ADHD likewise.<br /><br />Once you get a diagnosis, medication is the logical next step, you can't stop over-medication without stopping over-diagnosis...Neuroskeptichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06647064768789308157noreply@blogger.com