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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”

about the medicated child

Maria Leon