"The number of children taking powerful antipsychotic drugs has nearly tripled over the
last 10 to 15 years, according to recent research. The increase comes not because of
an epidemic of schizophrenia or other forms of serious mental illness in
children, but because doctors
are increasingly prescribing the drugs to treat behavior problems, a use
not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). And a disproportionate
number of those prescriptions are written for poor and minority children, some
as young as age 2.
Doctors
are prescribing antipsychotics even though there’s minimal
evidence that the drugs help kids for approved uses, much less the unapproved
ones, such as behavioral problems. And to make matters worse, the little research there is
suggests the drugs can cause troubling side effects, including weight gain, high cholesterol, and an increased risk of type-2 diabetes."
More confirmation that we are a drugged up
society, unable to deal with life's problems. Any inconvenience can be labeled
a syndrome or illness and....yup, they've got a pill for that.
The problem from the beginning is
multi-faceted: people are sinners, pills won't make problems go away because our problems are spiritual in nature, and thereis no such thing as a mental "illness", much less a chemical imbalance. There are no medical tests for any
"mental illness" because it's subjective, as is the DSM from which doctors and
psychotherapists use to guess at a category their client is likely to be in
(and that can switch, by the way--not to mention that the symptoms are all
predicated on what the client tells the therapist). This is quite different
than having blood work drawn up to look at the white blood cell count, or test
for cholesterol, for example. Objective medical tests are just that: objective,
regardless of how the patient is feeling that day. Observation and
self-reporting of one's feelings and thoughts are subjective with no medically
understood "normal" standard, and fluctuates from the client from
session to session, day to day, and the therapist's observations (did he miss
anything?) and interpretation of those subjective observations.
Poisoning a body, especially a young one,
could potentially damage the brain, but also hurts the child as well as the
parent by not giving real help--wisdom--in dealing with life's normal issues.
In other words, pills don't equip children nor adults to deal with life's
difficulties. It just might numb them from the pain of life. For a while. Until
adverse side affects like depression or suicidal thoughts or outrage (and thus
sometimes, violence and murder and mass shootings) start to happen.
Go here for the article on the failure of Prozac and psychotropic drugs in general (do they work? go here).
For several articles I have posted with
Scripture as well as links, go here.
Its
time to stop the drugging of the minds of people including children and to get away from
psychiatry and psychology--none of which is helpful nor beneficial, but most
definitely harmful, the MOST of which is spiritually. The ONLY solution for
one's most severest problems with the mind/heart/emotions/life IS Jesus Christ
and His Gospel. He who is Creator and has revealed the Truth to us in
Scripture, has told us what the truth is about our disposition, sin, failures,
and its results and destiny. He also has revealed the solution, the healing,
the comfort and the peace for those who humbly come to Him on His terms,
understanding their total depravity and His deity and that He alone is
the ONLY Way, Truth, and Life and that outside of Him there is no hope, no God,
no way to the Father, no eternal life, no solution to life's problems.
The fact is that far too many professing Christians live their lives, day in and day out, on the basis of something other than the Bible. As a result, their priorities reflect the world’s priorities, not God’s priorities. Their patterns of behavior and their plans for the future differ only slightly from those of their unsaved friends and neighbors. Their expenditures reveal that their perspective is temporal, and that they are vainly pursuing the elusive American Dream.Their shortcomings, when they admit to them, receive the same fault-free labels that the world ascribes (“mistakes” or “diseases” or “addictions” rather than “sins”), as they search for answers in psychology, medication, or the self-help section of the bookstore.Though they adhere to an external form of traditional Christian moralism, there isn’t anything particularly biblical or Christ-centered about how they live.
Yet it is in the lives of sinners who have been transformed by the Gospel of grace, that a distinctly Christian ethic must be fleshed out. True Christianity is not defined on the basis of external moralism, religious traditionalism, or partisan politics; but on the basis of a personal love for Jesus Christ and a desire to follow Him no matter the cost (cf. John 14:15)....
~Grace To You
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