How medication screwed up my life., page 3
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reply posted on 7-9-2007 @ 06:19 PM by Maverickhunter
reply to post by Boondock78

I know that the diagnosis was incorrect because I have periods in my life where I display these conditions because I am extremely sad and angry and I don't know what to do with myself. Typically, when I am angry and upset, doctors want that changed, and they want to medicate me, so that I get medicated and calmed down. That's what I have typically experienced.


reply posted on 7-9-2007 @ 07:21 PM by disgustedbyhumanity
Originally posted by Boondock78
Originally posted by uberarcanist
reply to post by Maverickhunter


people bash these drugs a lot and some of it is deserved but these drugs help a lot of people. a lot of people that have issues with them do nto take them properly.


Seems to me that the patients that are "cured" are possibly just put into a state that others believe they should be in.

In my life I have met many people who clearly would have been diagnosed with ADD and such if that would have been the rage 20-30 years ago. Allwere kicked out of schoolsmultiple times. Most of these people have turned out to be successful professionals providing a positive contribution to society. Had they been put on Ritalin or the such as children, I seriously doubt they would ended up as well off or with such dynamic personalitie.

I think the Goverment and Education system have simply taken the easy way out. This thread has made me consider opening a drug free school for ADD diagnosed children. Something to ponder.


reply posted on 7-9-2007 @ 08:02 PM by Maverickhunter
reply to post by undo

The thing is that your example is for a person that was correctly diagnosed with their problems. His aggressive attitude might be part of his personality. Hey, at one point I was kicking and screaming and saying completely random things, but that wasn't because I am agressive when I am off the medecine, it's because I didn't know what to do with myself and I had no social interaction, so and no one cared about me because they didn't think that I could help myself. When I said that I had problems with other people they thought I was having problems with other problems with other people because of a "disability". Last year, the more I talked to other people, the more they thought I had asbergers disorder.


reply posted on 7-9-2007 @ 08:21 PM by undo
Originally posted by Maverickhunter
reply to post by undo

The thing is that your example is for a person that was correctly diagnosed with their problems. His aggressive attitude might be part of his personality. Hey, at one point I was kicking and screaming and saying completely random things, but that wasn't because I am agressive when I am off the medecine, it's because I didn't know what to do with myself and I had no social interaction, so and no one cared about me because they didn't think that I could help myself. When I said that I had problems with other people they thought I was having problems with other problems with other people because of a "disability". Last year, the more I talked to other people, the more they thought I had asbergers disorder.


Erm you probably addressed this to the wrong person. My post was about people being put on meds for somatic disorders, when they were just grieving, diabetic or sad for another reason, temporarily, and were manifesting other symptoms that were probably stress-related or diet-related - like getting headaches from worry/stress or neuropathy from elevated blood sugar levels. People with peripheral neuropathy are diagnosed with all sorts of things.

The point was, that drugs are frequently given for disorders that are themselves, misdiagonsed by pharmaceutical companies, who then sell their drugs usage to doctors for use on their patients. A pharmacist, will, believe it or not, be better equipped to determine the validity of a medicine for any given symptom, as they have no personal stock in one drug over another, and have to know almost as much as a doctor anyway.


reply posted on 26-4-2012 @ 09:35 PM by jimpaicopolos
Nine percent of all American children, mostly boys are labeled with the "mental disorder" ADHD which is often diagnosed solely on a checklist of behaviors. There are no brain scans, x-rays, genetic or blood tests that can prove they actually have this disorder, Yet these children, are prescribed psychiatric drugs that increase heart beat, blood pressure and interfere with sleep and nutrition.
Chinese children continue to have better control of their behavior and outperform American children in school, yet Chinese children do not take Psychotropic medications like Adderall.

I wanted to believe what the doctors told me even though I was against medicating my son. It was not until my youngest son Nicholas was placed on this medication and I saw the side effects, which his pediatrician called "normal" that I realized that something was terribly wrong. I took him to another doctor and he was diagnosed with tachycardia. After coming off the drug, Nicholas made the honor role and at parents night when I asked if my son had any attention problems, his teachers told me that he was a hard working well focus student who was a delight to have in class. After taking the medication he is now under doctors orders cannot play sports as because of heat damage done by the medication. Ann Hohmann's son Matthew was not so fortunate. He dropped dead on the bathroom floor, after being on Adderall XR 20 mg for 29 doses. His mother appeared on Good Morning America to tell what happened to her son.
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