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Re: Pharmocological Oppression II
by bettie_x (strangersangel@hotmail.com)
on Jul 13, 2004 - 09:00 AM
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Not to mention since they are given pills at an early age to deal with their "problems" (or what their parents see as problems) instead of dealing with it mentally and learning the skills necessary to deal with stress, boredom, and life in general, they are denied the ability to problem solve on their own, and learn to "take a pill" for anything that is "wrong". I've seen a lot of the first wave of "ritalin" kids now turning into young adults and most of them are STILL on it, but over the years have been put on even MORE medication since then...for anxiety, for depression, for mood swings. I've also seen a lot of "ritalin kids" turn to illegal substances in their teens more readily, and as one said "I don't see the difference, my parents have been feeding me altering drugs since I was 8."
Don't get me wrong, their are kids out there with very real, very harmful chemical and emotional imbalances out there, and there are ADULTS with very real problems too, and those people benifit not ONLY from counsling but from drug therapy as well. But for the most part, it's all woven into our paranoid pill popping quick fix culture.
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