Psychiatric disease labeling of children exposed as scam by non-profit group

[ktlight]

FYI:

Child drugging has been a huge profitable market for Big Pharma, earning them $4.8 billion dollars a year. They have done everything in their power to convince the press, legislators and especially parents why children need to be put on drugs.

They claim that ADD/ADHD, depression, bipolar disorder, etc., are medical conditions, and consider them on par with cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. But in reality there is no actual evidence that proves that psychiatric disorders are indeed medical conditions. They simply diagnose a child by using a behavioral checklist.

There are 20 million children in the United States who have been diagnosed with some kind of psychiatric disorder and drugged for it. It's practically an epidemic. Innocent children are being turned into patients for simply acting like kids.

Not to mention that all those who are licensed by the government who can "legally" prescribe drugs are paid huge amounts of money by the pharmaceutical industry to write prescriptions of their drugs. But has anyone considered the side effects that these drugs have on children?

In 2001, Matthew Smith, 14, was skateboarding with his cousins when he collapsed and started turning blue. By the time the paramedics arrived Matthew couldn't be revived and suffered a heart attack.

According to Dr. Ljubisa Dragovic, the cause was Ritalin. Matthew Smith was only six years old when his parents followed the school social worker's advice and placed him on Ritalin. She claimed Matthew had "ants in his pants" and wouldn't sit still. After the autopsy, Matthew's heart showed the same signs of vessel damage that are caused by amphetamines and cocaine.

Ritalin is a methylphenidate, and classified as a Schedule II drug. The DEA reserves it as one of the most dangerous and addictive drugs allowed to be legally prescribed. Some of the serious known side effects are heart palpitations, heart attacks, and cardiac arrhythmia. Why in the world would they prescribe this to children?

What is being done to these kids is truly child abuse. If children are not running around, being loud and constantly playing, then I'd be concerned. Forcing them to sit still and act like adults is unrealistic and cruel.

There's so much that we can learn from our children if we stop and observe them. They are always in the moment. All they require is patience, understanding, and love. Not drugs.

source
http://www.naturalnews.com/033131_psychiatric_disease_labeling.html

[Ria]

I think the ending is very simplistic. Parents seeking help for there child are not lacking love or patience, put seeking understanding and help for good reason. The fact that the so called legitimate experts come up with the garbage dose not help matters.

[Lancelot]

Child vaccines have also been linked to these 'disorders'.

Before children are 2 years old they have had over 30 shots of vaccine containing live viruses and bacteria, formaldehyde, heavy metals and squaline amongst other ingredients. Its a case of big pharm creating the problem in the first place then offering the solution with more drugs.

[Maia Gabrial]

Good article, ktlight. One of my biggest gripes is that children are always being targeted. Let the children be children for as long as they can, I always say....
I wonder how many parents can sit through one of their kid's classes without getting "antsy" themselves? The system sucks, but rather than blaming the educators they blame everyone and everything else. IMO drugs are a deplorable way to deal with a kid who is bored out of his mind.
In case you haven't guessed, I'm no fan of public schools.

[Flash]

Maia Gabrial

I have been working part time in a school for drop out last winter. I am use to teach in corporations, so it was substantially different and surprising. Drop out = extremely bright kids who had enough of boring schools, or drug addicts, or personnality disorder (I really mean it, from autistic to borderline disorder to psychosis, very difficult to manage within a classroom context, in fact within any context).
The very bright ones, case solved, be a very good teacher and bring some interesting juice for the brain and for the being
Drugs addicts: what can you do with someone who sleep all morning on his desk and has the chill by 3PM, getting quite agressive? What when you have 5 of them in a classe of 12?
Personnality disorder: what do you do when they scream, swear, bang doors, pitch chairs, are agressive, to name a few behaviors, and all this against the autistic who cannot bear it and go in melt down, and are 1/2 of the time absent (like the addict as well) and you have 4 of these out of 12.

Only 3 are regular behavior, usually quite bright, out of 12.

I truly have seen outstanding teachers. Very motivated teachers that truly wanted to help are the rule, bad ones are may 20% no more. I could not imagine how tough is the job before doing it. And how little support from parents (I am a parent, I support the teachers much more than what I have seen)

I have seen a whole system that was paralysed with norms, check up, administration overwhelming academia at any time. This is, in my idea, what hampers the most the system.

I have seen very good dedicated parents, and lots of parents that demand everything from the teacher, including giving the education, discipline and ethics they should themselves infuse to their kids. They prefer television instead, I bet, or any other addiction.

I also have seen single parents/both parents that were overwhelmed with work, difficult monetary situation, having to feed their kids, etc etc. As soon as the kid is a bit different, they are cooked emotionnaly and overstressed, often without much social help (I know, I am one of these).

The system is to blame, the personnal reponsibilities and ethics of parents sometimes, sometimes the teachers but not thaaat often. I was surprised of my own findings, I was thinking like you prior to this experience.

Imho

[Flash]

this is not to say that all classrooms are like what I described above, those were drop out classrooms.

As for medication of childrens brain, well, this is absolutely rampant in schools, with a lot of pressure on parents to give medication as soon as behavior is outisde the norms. I had these kind of pressures and I do resist because I sink the shchool adminsitration in scientific research so they lleave me alone.

However, I do wonder is there is not more troubled children nowadays for all kind or reasons: violence rampant in all media and games, television that stun children and hypnotised them not allowing for normal brain waves to process the environment, and mostly incredible amount of pesticides, GMO, radiation and poisons of all kind, including electromagnetic pollution and microwaves, creating children with difficult behaviors.

Add to this overstressed parents that are often emotionally absents and you have a very difficult cocktail for children growth and behaviors. Do not forget that autisme has gone from 1 in 1,500 just 20 years ago to 1 in 49 right now, something is wrong somewhere in the environment of children.

The solution is obviously not more poison under the shape of medication, but creating better environments for our children as much as possible.

[Maia Gabrial]

One thing I learned in my sociology class was that public school teach kids to be good little follower/future workers. Whereas, private schools teach how to manage and become entrepreneurs.
I agree that there are good teachers laboring under a crappy system. But I'm still not sold on the goodness of the public schools....If I could have afforded private schools, I would have done that. If I had had the time to home school them, then that would have been even better. Both of my kids are very intelligent. (They took after their father....LOL)
IMO the public school system is a nightmare system that needs an overhaul.