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America's Mental Illness Epidemic: It Turns Out That the Drugs Are the Problem by Gary G. Kohls, MD



 
 
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Old August 30th 10, 11:12 PM posted to misc.health.alternative,misc.kids,misc.kids.health,sci.med
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Default America's Mental Illness Epidemic: It Turns Out That the Drugs Are the Problem by Gary G. Kohls, MD

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Old August 30th 10, 11:46 PM posted to misc.health.alternative,misc.kids,misc.kids.health,sci.med
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Default 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
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Default 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


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Old August 31st 10, 11:27 AM posted to misc.health.alternative,misc.kids,misc.kids.health,sci.med
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Default 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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