tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184208181444239184.post8274798274654806145..comments2024-03-14T13:25:42.698-04:00Comments on Child in Mind: Standard of Care for ADHD Violates this Pediatrician's Professional IntegrityClaudia M. Gold, MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13081419560269676730noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184208181444239184.post-81527987312205502892010-04-21T07:56:14.720-04:002010-04-21T07:56:14.720-04:00Thank you, JC, for your touching and inspiring com...Thank you, JC, for your touching and inspiring comment.Claudia M. Gold, MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13081419560269676730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184208181444239184.post-48675084934818611512010-04-20T21:13:21.597-04:002010-04-20T21:13:21.597-04:00This is an extremely poignant observation:
"...This is an extremely poignant observation:<br /><br />"I also wonder what it does to a child's sense of self to sit in a room once every three to six months and listen to a conversation about his behavior and its relation to a pill he takes every day. Often things are said like, "He's just terrible when he misses his dose."<br /><br />That paragraphed tugged real hard on a heart string for me, it's truth too familiar, because I know exactly what it's like to be that kid sitting there -- mother and doctor exchanging information about my behavior in relation to all the medicine I was taking.<br /><br />Often my mother would pin some behavioral outburst on me refusing to take one dose of medicine, which isn't a drop in the bucket when your taking several mood stabilizers and several antipsychotic drugs.<br /><br />That was really the only difference for me -- I was taking the drugs for my alleged bipolar disorder. I was treated by an MGH guy.<br /><br />Lot of fighting in my home. My mom is like a child, she wanted me sick and this was Biederman et al's heyday (circa2001). The doctor was only too willing to go along.<br /><br />Now my mom's job in life is to present herself to the doctor as sick.<br /><br />I have no sense of self.<br /><br />I love your blog. Your ideas are refreshing and your attitude is bold. This is what's needed to protect children.<br /><br />Please help a lot of children in your practice. Don't let any more childrens lives be destroyed by this false pediatric bipolar epidemic.<br /><br />Let them know they are normal. Let them know they're lives will not be irreparably changed. Let them know that hard times and situations can be dealt with. Let them know their bodies are theirs -- not the doctor's, not the drug's. Let them grow physically, let them grow emotionally.<br /><br />Drugs don't let that happen.<br /><br />Prevent adolescent and young adult cases of "BPD" by helping these dysregulated kids before they become such.<br /><br />Write, teach, scream if you need to. People need to be practicing like you.JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11994613403261390917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184208181444239184.post-66046232919619655902010-04-20T18:49:19.048-04:002010-04-20T18:49:19.048-04:00There is a lot of evidence that stimulants are des...There is a lot of evidence that stimulants are destructive to everybody. They stunt growth in children, for one. They deplete the brain pleasure centers of dopamine so that people can not enjoy things like food and sex as much. They can cause psychosis over the long term, as well as raise blood pressure and cause strokes and heart attacks. <br /><br />Their physiological effects are not all that different from cocaine and methamphetamine. Adderal contains dextroamphetamine; housewives in the 50's got strung out on these when they were hawked as "diet pills."<br /><br />At a medical conference I went to, a lecturer from NIDA was going on at great lengths about how amphatamines deplete dopamine in the brain's pleasure centers. When someone from the audience asked him if we were not doing that to our kids with stimulants, his unforgetable response was, "But the drugs work so well." Talk about sidestepping an issue.<br /><br />Back when I was at UC Berkeley in the Hippie days of 1967, they used to say "Speed Kills," and they were not talking about driving too fast. And this from people who were generally in favor of getting high on drugs!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com