America's Mental Illness Epidemic: It Turns Out That the Drugs Are the Problem by Gary G. Kohls, MD
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America's Mental Illness Epidemic: It Turns Out That the DrugsAre the Problem by Gary G. Kohls, MD
john wrote:
http://whale.to/drugs/america.html I see you're believing press releases now. The article is total junk. For proof, it quotes Mr. Joseph Mercola. Anyone with a working brain can see right through this. That leaves little wonder why you brought this to our attention. Jeff |
America's Mental Illness Epidemic: It Turns Out That the Drugs Are the Problem by Gary G. Kohls, MD
When you research the rise of juvenile bipolar illness in this country, you see that it appears in lockstep with the prescribing of stimulants for ADHD and antidepressants for depression. Prior to the use of those medications, you find that researchers reported that manic-depressive illness, which is what bipolar illness was called at the time, virtually never occurred in prepubertal children. But once psychiatrists started putting “hyperactive” children on Ritalin, they started to see prepubertal children with manic symptoms. Same thing happened when psychiatrists started prescribing antidepressants to children and teenagers. A significant percentage had manic or hypomanic reactions to the antidepressants. When you add up all this information, you end up documenting a story of how the lives of hundreds of thousands of children in the United States have been destroyed in this way. In fact, I think that the number of children and teenagers that have ended up “bipolar” after being treated with a stimulant or an antidepressant is now well over one million. This is a story of harm done on an unimaginable scale. [2010] Robert Whitaker Interview http://whale.to/drugs/tuesday.html |
America's Mental Illness Epidemic: It Turns Out That the DrugsAre the Problem by Gary G. Kohls, MD
john wrote:
When you research the rise of juvenile bipolar illness in this country, you see that it appears in lockstep with the prescribing of stimulants for ADHD and antidepressants for depression. Prior to the use of those medications, you find that researchers reported that manic-depressive illness, which is what bipolar illness was called at the time, virtually never occurred in prepubertal children. But once psychiatrists started putting “hyperactive” children on Ritalin, they started to see prepubertal children with manic symptoms. Same thing happened when psychiatrists started prescribing antidepressants to children and teenagers. A significant percentage had manic or hypomanic reactions to the antidepressants. When you add up all this information, you end up documenting a story of how the lives of hundreds of thousands of children in the United States have been destroyed in this way. In fact, I think that the number of children and teenagers that have ended up “bipolar” after being treated with a stimulant or an antidepressant is now well over one million. This is a story of harm done on an unimaginable scale. [2010] Robert Whitaker Interview http://whale.to/drugs/tuesday.html I see you're still believing press releases. The reason why more kids were diagnosed with bipolar disorder is because psychologists and psychiatrists developed a better understanding of psychiatric illness in kids. If it was because of the increasing use of methylphenidate, please show us the studies that show that the kids who took methylphenidate were the same ones who were diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Jeff |
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