[Sometimes psychotic]

The Medicated Child (2008) - Video Dailymotion

This is actually about childhood bipolar but since a lot of the meds are the same and there also seems to be this prior ADHD diagnosis as for a lot of kids with sz it might be of interest. In some cases it seems the kids were helped but in others they were clearly worse off.

[ZehR]

I watched the whole thing. I just don't know what to think about it.. I think they would be better off without meds. The kid that was taking 8-9 different medications is clearly worse off and shouldn't have been medicated. His future is wrecked probably.

That BrainMatters thing.. my god what a scam.. That little kid at the end.. I think he was taking like 3-4mg of risperidone to "calm him down" PRN like omg he couldn't even move. At the end I think he was holding a pill bottle or something and said "Look this feels heavy"..

:/

The household was always hell for me going to school in the morning. It was just fighting and then off to school and it's good. I wasn't given Xanax o.0

[newtus]

i saw this already pretty good

[Sometimes psychotic]

Originally Posted by ZehR

I watched the whole thing. I just don't know what to think about it.. I think they would be better off without meds. The kid that was taking 8-9 different medications is clearly worse off and shouldn't have been medicated. His future is wrecked probably.

That BrainMatters thing.. my god what a scam.. That little kid at the end.. I think he was taking like 3-4mg of risperidone to "calm him down" PRN like omg he couldn't even move. At the end I think he was holding a pill bottle or something and said "Look this feels heavy"..

:/

The household was always hell for me going to school in the morning. It was just fighting and then off to school and it's good. I wasn't given Xanax o.0

Yeah what's disturbing is this was 6 years ago and the same stuff is still going on today, kids aren't allowed to make their own medical decisions and teachers seem to push for sedation...so it continues. I do think the girl with the very evident bipolar seems better off but other than that ..

Yeah the brain matters thing...I can't believe a social worker is selling that and people are desperate to believe....I have no idea how that's legal...