Has anyone seen the Frontline show about psychiatric drugs and children?

Here is the link where you can watch it online, so I don't have to try to go about explaining it.

This was a show that I hold near and dear to my heart. It was also quite triggering for me.

My story:

I was diagnosed with depression as a child, even with attentive, incredible parents, an excellent school, and all sorts of opportunities to learn and grow.

I'm 16 now. I've been in talk therapy on and off for a total of... Well, as long as I can remember. Sometime between 3rd and 5th grade my parents and therapist decided it may help to take Prozac. Prozac helped me through a very rough time. I was hitting puberty (early), dealing with nasty peers at school, and trying to find myself spiritually.

However, at this point I regret having taken those pills. I believe that even though they were intended as a bridge, not a life path, that my brain could've learned to function quite well had it been given time and simple behavioral therapy.
I quit taking the drugs when I felt more content.

I started to feel depressed again in 8th grade. We played around with Prozac for a while, but it gave me headaches, so we switched to Zoloft in 9th grade. Zoloft sent me into deep, existential depression that kept me from functioning well, if at all. I missed a month of school, much to my parents' distress.

We finally figured out that Zoloft was a bad idea, at which point my psychiatrist wanted to try Effexor. I read all the labels and information and decided I didn't want to risk everything like I had with Zoloft. At that point I was completely rid of any psychiatric drugs.

It wasn't long before the depression came again, but more (of what I thought at the time,) sparatic. I noticed that I was depressed and throwing tantrums once a month, and understood that while I probably didn't have depression, I most certainly could connect it to severe PMS, called PMDD. PMDD is most common in older women, because PMS symptoms usually get worse with age. Six months ago, I was put on low-dose birth control to help, and since then any and all depression symptoms have been eliminated.

My opinion:

I believe being medicated as a child and later as a girl going through puberty stunted my brain's healthy growth. I hold the drugs at least partially responsible for my PMDD condition.

Children's brains are still developing, through puberty even. I think at such an age, behavioral therapy and above all, good parenting, is a much safer, effective method of curing children of "mental illnesses." While I'm sure certain problems exist for kids (I know depression exists-- to this day I can't describe what I felt at the age of six, but I think I tried to tell my therapist "like there was a little girl crying inside my head"), I seriously doubt that bipolar CAN even exist in children.

You can take any child and compare their behavior to that of a bipolar adult. Children naturally have wild mood swings and lack impulse control. Kids are not small adults. In fact, the way I see it, bipolar in adults in some cases can be compared to childlike behavior. That's where parenting comes in. Kids' brains are so impressionable that guidance is all that can save them from a future diagnosis of bipolar or ADD.

How can kids who grow up on heavy drugs like lithium, antipsychotics, and sedatives develop normal brain chemical patterns? Who knows if a child would grow out of mood disorders if the brain was given time to correct itself, with help from parents or therapists? And why in the world would doctors discourage behavior or talk therapy, even in conjunction with drugs?

So this is the end of my rant and my very passionate opinion. I thought I might share this with you, though I can tell it's a dangerous topic since I do feel so strongly about it.
So sorry if I offended or triggered anyone, and I'd love to hear others' opinions.