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this news story about a young child and prescription psychiatric medication. What are your reactions to the story? Based on the short discussion yesterday about trauma and changes in the brain, what inferences can be made about this type of scenario?
The only thing i could think of while reading this was, how can a parent medicate their child at only 18 months? This made me think, what was really wrong with this kid? But even though he may of had problems I do not think that he should have been medicated at such a young age. I can also agree with the part on how the mother said that she did not seeh er son anymore. Last year I was medicated and my mother told me the same thing. I was not into my school work anymore and I just didn't care about anything. Even though I was not here for the discussion yesterday I can say that this scenario may make the child more into school and into everything that he does, but may have him more vulnerable to devoloping the disorders again.
ReplyDeleteI think that him being hyper was normal for a child, I think that you can't tell what a child will be like by looking at them at the age of 3. Putting a 3 year old on drugs for them being hyper I don't think needs to be treated at such a young age. I do not know what the discussion was on.
ReplyDeleteThey said the little boy had bad temper tantrums but I want to know how bad his tantrums were. They diagnosed the little boy with so many different medications and they came to find out he only had ADD and didn't have to take that many medications. That must have messed with his brain because he took medications unessacarily so his brain may change for the worse now.
ReplyDeleteWell to be honest it sort of angers me that they would shove so many drugs down such a small childs throat. I mean what doctors don't know how to read now? They can't simply turn the label backwards and read the warning. It was simply unneccary to give a child that much medication without proper testing or even testing the effcts that the certain drugs have on the child. It is a shame that they are thinking first on saving money and quick fixes rathher than actually helping the child and truly finding out what his mental condition was. UGHH I would be so angry if my little cousins were given drugs that made them lifeless drug zombies..I mean REALLY. It is beyond stupid. Giving a three year olds over 5 drugs DAILY?? It doesnteven make sense that their small bodies could take the abuse and side effects the drugs leave behind. And for a mother to say she felt she was losing her son when she was just trying to help him, trying to make his life easier..ugh. To look into your child's eyes and see nothing but emptiness, I thought it was their job to help you not prescribe "emotion drainers" in a bottle. >.< Medication is NOT a toy and CANNOT be taken lightly.
ReplyDeleteI think that this is a crazy article. Especially how he was on a lot of medication by the age of 3. I feel bad for the boy and his family, because that is too young of a age to be on all of that medication. I feel bad for how when the mother looks into his eyes she can only see blankness. Also how this kid will never be normal from being on all of this medication. I experience this with my cousin, he was on this medication and all he ever did was just sit there and stare. I felt bad for him because it doesn’t look like a fun thing to have to. It really affects the brain because all they do is stare blank and just sit there. So that is what I think about this article.
ReplyDeletemy reactions to this story are kinda funny slash oh my gosh. my reaction to this story is that this kid basically has it majorly ruff in his life. this kid is on 30,000 different medications that he has to take and to me that kinda sucks for this kid. his life can never be normal in the worlds eyes. he can never do all the normal things that he would be able to do. i mean yeah he still lives like a normal kid blowing bubbles and stuff but still he knows that mentally he is not the same. i think that there were many changes in this kids brain at a very young age. his brain was altered at 18 months and he was on medication by 3 years of age. something was changed or there is something just completely wrong with the brain in this kid.
ReplyDeleteMy first reaction to the story was that children shouldn’t be on any drugs that help mental illness especially if it isn’t FDA approved for them. It disgusted me to know that a doctor willingly prescribed this without really checking all of the symptoms for the illness that the one doctor said he had. I also think that the mother shouldn’t have put him on drugs without trying any other methods first because of all the side effects that these drugs have on grown people, it would only make sense that they are worse on a child, so that shouldn’t have been her first option. It can be inferred that through the abuse of drugs, his brain structure might have changed because he was too young for the drugs and because his lack of communication at home this might have made he get put on the drugs to begin with.
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ReplyDeleteIt makes me mad to think that people are more worried about cost rather than a treatment that will actually work. It is stated in the article that medication is cheaper then family counseling. I personally don’t care what the cost is, what matters is what’s best for me and my family. This article proves that medication is always the answer. Sometimes normal treatments such as counseling would be the best thing possible for someone with disorders. I don’t really see any comparisons from yesterday’s discussion to today’s. Except that the fact that if a brain is effected by some kind of drug or abuse, it will have an effect on the persons future.
ReplyDeleteThis story was suprising to me at first. Now it is very common for doctors to give young children medicines that were created and tested for a condition mostly in adults. I think it was wrong for them to put him on an anti-depressiant. By druging him so bad it wouldnt allow him to be a normal three year old. I also believe that all the weight that he gained from the medicines was very unhealthly. As doctors that should have came up with a solution with the drugs that didnt put him in a selfless state.This type of scenario could affect him later in life because he was put on so many drugs and could possibly go back to that later on in life.
ReplyDeleteI think parents should not medicate their children at such a young age like Kyle. Giving children can cause changes to a child’s body or personality that may be harmful. At the end of the article they said the little boy probably didn’t have any of them diseases. It seems like these drugs changed the boy. Just because the boy had temper tantrums but that doesn’t mean doctors and parents should automatically think medicine will always fix it. Sometimes it could be a problem that medicine can fix but other times it could be situations at home or school that can cause that child to act out or be less social. Giving a child too much medicine could hurt them. I don’t think you should just shove thousands of pills down your children’s throat, in the long run you could really be hurting them without even knowing it.
ReplyDeleteI was shocked and I felt a lot of sympathy for Kyle and his mother. His mother probably blamed herself for what was happening to her son, and I know that was a scary and hard situation to have to go through. Doctors need to be smart about what they are giving their patients and they need to keep in mind their patients age and health. 1-4 year olds do not have the same tolerance and or cannot handle the same type of medicine as adults. Medication is not the answer to everything; we need to stop relying on pills to solve all our medical problems. With the abuse of the drugs they could have majorly damaged the structure of his brain because it wasn’t fully developed by chance. Doctors need to take these sort of things into consideration. This story should be a eye opener to people everywhere. Medication isn’t the answer to everything and you must be aware of all the possible outcomes and side effects when taking such strong medications.
ReplyDeleteWhy would they give young children medication? Medicine is not for the young at heart unless truly needed. In all reality Kyle didn’t need any medication. I can’t understand why people think that medicine is all that will stop your kid from acting the way they act. That’s not all they can do to help them. Giving medication that young kids can be given to adults, doesn’t always fix them. Sometimes as you can see in the article, Kyle got worse as they put him on more medication. Once he was off, he was fine and just like another average kid. From what we talked about yesterday, I think that medication that you take can sometimes help with one thing but can change a whole completely other thing in your brain. Trauma can have a great impact on even a young child and cause them to change; in the brain and in their actions. In my opinion, doctors need to start paying close attention to the behavior of the kid, instead of just going on and diagnosing these kids, and giving them medication.
ReplyDeleteI think that small children should not be prescribed too many anti-psychotics. This really affects their life and the way that they carry themselves out. They are antisocial and they do not really perform as other children do. I understand that there are differences in children and all but it is not normal for a child taking anti-psychotics to be overweight and do poorly in school. I think that the anti-psychotics should help the child be more social and active. I was shocked to read that the doctors concluded that Kyle probably never even had psychosis, autism, or bipolar disorder. I think that doctors should really prescribe medicine when it its extremely important because in cases like Kyle’s; the medication just worsens the situation not only for the child but also for his/her family. I think that based on the discussion from yesterday about trauma and changes in the brain, I can infer that this type of medications also contribute to that. This made me realize that events in our childhood are not the only things that impact our brains, also medications do but we just think about the benefit of the medicine and not the risks that they can bring later on. >.<
ReplyDeleteIt was sad to hear all what that little boys went through at such a young age, so I know is mother was just torn up in the inside to see her little boy go through that. Personally I don’t like psychologist because most of the time they don’t properly examine their patients before filling them with a bunch of medication, which actually makes them fill worse or permanently changes peoples personality.
ReplyDeleteWith this scenario the inferences that I made was that medication puts in or take away the chemicals in the brain thats being effected, but too much medication can cause more damage or have more of an affect than necessary or indented. Don’t get me wrong medication isn’t bad, it’s just some times over used and misdiagnosed.
i believe the story was very shocking, and quite surprising. Doctors are commonly giving out more and more medications to children, that were really created and designed for adults. Anti-deprressiants, i believe that children should not be given this medication,unless there is a serious serious problem. The drug didnt allow him from being a normal hyper, three year old. The three year old wasnt as hyper and fun, he gained alot of weight, which was very unhealthy. His selfless state of mind wasnt normal and unhealthy. This experience could have a strong effect on his later life. The amount of drugs and how strong they were really made a toll on his body.
ReplyDeleteI think this article is absolutely ridiculous on the doctors behave. Doctors should be more considerate when dealing with babies and toddlers. I don’t see how doctors can prescribe different medicines to a person who doesn’t even have that specific problem. For example in the article the doctors gave Kyle medicine for bipolar disorder, hyperactivity insomnia, and oppositional defiant disorder for his tantrums and other behavioral disorder but, the only thing wrong with him was the lack of attention he receive from his family. In yesterdays discussion about the brain I can infer from this scenario that if different kinds of medicines are mixed than it can cause a bigger problem in the brain, and affect the individuals behavior.
ReplyDeleteI am happy that the little boy has made a recovery and is now in school and living a healthy life. I feel that the parent did not have many options and all those drugs was just a panic move that the little boy did not need to go through. I feel that the child should have been put in a system that would help him that would not hurt him health wise. I do feel that the brain can be haped and moved differently due to trauma and things as such. I think being that it was a small child with these problems they did not have to resort to so many strong drugs. A child’s mind is easier to minipulate and change. If the mom could have focused on that type of treatment and not a heavy load of drugs then her child would not have got so messed up.
ReplyDeleteI was shocked when I read that Kyle was taking so many drugs at a very young age. He took medicines for Autism, bipolar disorder, hyperactivity, insomnia, oppositional defiant disorder. And on top of that, his daily pill regimen multiplied. He took all these pills by the age he was 3 years old. It is very shocking as to how much medicine was prescribes to that little boy. A mother should not put her child into this amount of medicine at this young age. That messes with the brain development. They should have tested the medicine first before giving it to a young child. They should test the effects that drug will affect the child and his growth. I think the doctors should not focus on the money, but on making sure that the child get small amount of prescriptions for their age. Those entire drugs also made him overweight and even more depress. The benefits should not only be considered when it comes to drugs but also the effect in the young child life. Because that medicine can not only help the child, but it can also trigger more problems. Just don’t overdose a young infant, and most importantly make sure that the child get the drug based on their age and not some wrong medicine. If the drug is created for adult, do not just handed to a young child.
ReplyDeletei was shocked reading this story. this boy had to take all these pills at the age of 3 years old. I know that being diganose with 5 different disorders was very had to deal with. i dont think that as a mother i could have made my child take so many different medications at such a young age. Not knowing the effects it would have on my child. The doctors should have took more time dealing with this little boys sickness and giving him all them pills. the situation doesnt even sound good to give a child all these pills.
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