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Treatments for children and teens with Bipolar disorder…
What treatments area available for children and teens with Bipolar Disorder?
It is amazing to think that in this era the medical field is still treating people as guinea pigs””. I cannot believe that they are so self center that they haven’t come out with any solution on how to treat children (specially) with bipolar disorders. It is not enough for them to medicate them with ADHD, so they need to mess them up even more by diagnose them with something worse like biopolar disorder. I am not saying that there are children that really have this, but for most cases they are just messing up this kids lives.
Most of the medications that are giving to children are only tested for adults. In this article says that psychiatrists need to start”los and go slow”. It’s funny, because the doctor inthe film we saw on Wednesday prescribed a greater dose of the medicine which kill a little girl while sleeping. Some of the medications they give such as Mood Stabilizers can cause joint/muscle pain, bloating, restlessness, brittle nails or hair, drowsiness, diarrhea, mood swings ( aren’t these kids already having mood swings?),etc. Antipsychotics can cause dizziness, skin rashes, sensitivity to the sun, rapid heartbeat, menstrual problems(for girls), weight gain (the brain cannot tell the kid when he/she is full), etc.. Antidepressants can cause agitation, sleeping problems, headaches and nauseas which they can take a few days to go away.
If all these side effects are annoying for us as adults can you imagin a 2 or 3 year hold child that he doesn’t even know most of the time what is going on and why he is being punished with all these stupid medication that one day are going to bring him to his/her death.
Dr. John Breeding has a Ph.D. in Psycology commented about the video we saw on Wednesday about “Medicated Child”
Maria Leon
Is it “bullying” a way to create juvinile criminals?
Addressing the problem of juvinile bullying
This is from U.S. Department of Justice – Office of Justice Programs – Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. It talks about bullying can create criminals and criminal activities. It stats in schools, when bigger kids pray on the little or weak ones. Bullying can be expressed in 3 forms: Physical, verbal, and psychological. Bullying takes place more in males than females. It usually starts in emelentary grades, and persists in high school. In the United States, the NICHD (National Institute of Child Health Development) reported that 1.6 million children in 6-10 grades are bullied at least once a week, and 1.7 million children are the bullies. Some efects of bullism for the bullies it is hard to make social adjustments and unable to make friends. For the victims is the humiliations, lost of self essteem, and insecurity. These issues can continue until adulthood for the victims. Victims can suffer from depression or have mental health issues such as schizophrenia, and suicide.
Bullying behavior is linked to antisocial behavior such as vandalism, fighting, use of drugs, shoplifting, vandalism, etc.
Professor Dan Olweus in Norway and Sweden suggests: ” bullying can lead to criminal behavior later in life: 60 percent of males who were bullies in grades 6 through 9 were convicted of at least one crime as adults, compared with 23 percent of males who did not bully; 35 to 40 percent of these former bullies had three or more convictions by age 24, compared with 10 percent of those who did not bully.”
SO, What causes kids to bully?. It is said that starts at HOME with the PARENTS. Bullies usually are physical abused at home, or see any type of violence within family members, or they don’t have any attention or love from their parents. So they need to take their stress to others.
why do some children become bullies?
Maria Leon
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Request to revoke Cesare Lombroso commemoration in Milan in 2010
Request against Cesare Lombroso
It interested to me that now a days a lot of people from Italy (Milan) do not like Cesare Lombroso’s studies or theories about criminology. These people requested to the Mayor and Town Concillors to remove the name of Cesare Lombroso to a street that the town name to commemorate him. They describe Dr. Lombroso’s work as very controversial and worthless . They find his thesis of “the born or atavistic uncultured offender” very lame and offensive. This thesis is base on how a criminal is like by his physical features. These criminals were born not made and their features differentiate from “a normal society men”. He performed autopsies on alleged criminals by measuring their skulls and bodies to conclude how is the physical body of a born criminal. He pretty much (in my opinion) based racism in the way that he was basing this theories just with lower class people (immigrants). He would compared the skulls and facial features of these criminals to animals such as, rats, apes. He describes as follows; “….. the problem of the nature of the criminal – an atavistic being who reproduces in his person the ferocious instincts of primitive humanity and the inferior animals…enormous jaws, high cheekbones …. found in criminals, savages, and apes, insensibility to pain…”(P240) this is how he described people who didn’t look like him. He also describe them as pure evil, people without any remorse, lazy, excessive tattooing, etc. He describes ‘Slang’ as ‘a peculiar jargon used by criminals among themselves” (P 242). Quite interesting on how nowadays we don’t measure the skulls and bodies but we still denigrate and point to alleged criminals because of the way they dress, speak, their culture or race. I guess certain thing will NEVER change.
Check out this site also…. http://www.significancemagazine.org/details/webexclusive/1378229/Testing-Lombrosos-theory.html
Maria Leon
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Tagged beginings of criminology, criminal types, denegration, Lombroso
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