The Medicated Child

   



    Friday night I watched a documentary titled The Medicated Child. Overall it was not very informative, and did not really have an obvious point they were trying to get to.

    As I went along watching it I had a strong urge to yell at the parents who were accepting that their children needs to be on all the medication, and kick the doctor in the shin for prescribing all of it to them. Doctors have been diagnosing millions of children with ADHD and Bipolar disorder for years now. I have3 no doubt that there are few kids who really do need some sort of medication to be stable, but putting a young 4 year old on six different medications does not do the doctor justice. I feel he prescribed whatever made the child calm and pleasing to the parents and labeled him with ADHD to get the child out of everyone’s hair.

    Besides killing the brain of these children I noticed they were allowed to eat whatever they wanted, Gatorade, corndogs, loads of ice cream. The parents blamed the nutrition on the medicine, saying “he just keeps eating and eating and doesn’t know when he’s full” my response to this line was something along the lines of “you are the mother, the one in charge, you have the power to stop feeding the kid to death and you have to power to change the medicine. don’t make the boy suffer his whole life because you aren’t smart enough to take him to therapy.”. All I kept thinking about was my best friend who has been on the same 6 medications since he was four, and when he turned 18 he stopped all of them and was just fine. He was more normal than he ever was on all the meds. These doctors are really upsetting me.

    I recommend you watch the documentary only if you know nothing about the high pill distribution going on right now, or anything about ADHD, they don’t really tell you what bipolar is so its no help in that sense. It just made me angry to watch it.