Should we medicate our teen daughter for anxiety
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Anonymous
Yeah who needs medical school and residency when you have Google!!! Everyone can be a doctor these days. Am I right??? |
Anonymous
You should also add crystals. I hear they have wonderful healing properties. |
Anonymous
The fact that you don't realize how much money big pharm makes in over-medicating people is laughable and they ties they have to physicians. Do you also realize how much doctors get off of taking on new drugs. getting trips, lunches, big nights out on the behalf of their marketing dept. oh and "consultations" too. But the most is cold hard CASH. It's funny that you think changing diet and finding vitamin and mineral depletions and fixing them should not be the initial way. But a 25min script to get a high does SRRI for a 12yr old is the initial way to go.  Because of a degree? LOL Most doctors are just as corrupt as politicians. They have to be because they make pennies off accepting insurance.
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Anonymous
So why did you even go to one in the first place? Just stick to your vitamins and whatever else your Google degree tells you to do. Your poor child. |
Anonymous
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You shouldn’t medicate until you have first exhausted all the natural methods to reduce and manage anxiety.
Proper diet, very low in UPFs which destabilize dopamine and serotonin and drive anxiety. Proper sleep - at her age that means 9-10 hours per night. Take the phone away and no TV or computer in the bedroom. Regular exercise to burn stress hormones. Breathwork/meditation practice. Cognitive behavioral therapy. Do ALL of these things before you give her pharmaceuticals. |
Anonymous
PS, yes these things are hard. But pills should be the last resort, not the first. Doctors push pills because most patients just don’t want to hear about the substantive lifestyle changes that can vastly improve mental health - most patients don’t want to do the work. But that work is the foundation for a much healthier life especially when you age into adulthood and the many stresses encountered there. Give your child the gift of a truly healthy foundation for the rest of her life. |
Anonymous
+1 think about oxycotin. Drs were pushing it needlessly. |
Anonymous
dp.. My family and I take rx medications when warranted, but it is not the first line of defense. Vitamins and supplements along with dietary changes, therapy, and life style changes can do wonders. It's not the go to fix. Unless it's a life threatening medical issue, swallowing a pill without first trying other things is basically instant gratification. Take cholesterol or high blood medications for example. They can save your life, of course. But, you can reduce the need for such medications with diet, exercise, and lifestyle changes. Mental health is no different. |
Anonymous
No one has claimed that other thins shouldn't be adjusted first. That is not what the drained PP is saying. She is basically saying that doctors are prescribing them for monetary gain with no regard to their patients and that's insane. Of COURSE, sleep, eating, and exercise should be adjusted, but meds are not evil. |
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To anyone reading this thread and concerned about mental health issues in your kids or yourself, I highly recommend this book:
The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains ~ Dr. Robert Lustig Lustig is a highly respected endocrinologist who works with kids suffering obesity and diabetes, and very often accompanied by mental health issues. He is no krank and not one of those doctors looking to make a buck - he sells no products other than his thoroughly researched, heavily footnoted books. He cares deeply about what is happening to Americans, especially American kids, because of our processed foods industry and over reliance on pharmaceuticals to treat the symptoms of diseases of the body and the mind that are fully resolvable by lifestyle changes. I’ve lived firsthand the journey of becoming seriously unhealthy both physically and mentally, having pharmaceuticals pushed on me by my physicians, and learning that I never needed them because everything was fixable by changing how I eat and behave. It troubles me that young people are being pushed into drugs by so many doctors who don’t get the training in medical school (they don’t even do a full day on nutrition over four years of schooling, can you believe that??) to advise patients properly about how they can keep their minds and bodies healthy by eating and living well. |
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Finally it is worth noting that the same multinational corporations that own the subsidiaries that sell us poisoned processed foods also own subsidiaries that are comprised of pharmaceutical companies. Anyone who doesn’t get the connection between these entities is just not paying attention. CVS stopped selling cigarettes several years ago because they’re a health care company they proclaimed - but when you go there to pick up your pharmaceuticals, you have to walk past aisle after aisle of highly processed edible substances that are not actually food but rather food products. There is a massive difference between real food and food products. CVS and Walgreens and Walmart and all those places are UPF pushers - they have no moral qualms with selling the products that drive obesity and diabetes and chronic sleep deprivation and mental health disorders along with the pharmaceuticals that treat the symptoms but don’t cure anything.
There is no profit motive in curing lifestyle diseases. There is very low profit motive in selling broccoli, et al. Make the connection, people. |
Anonymous
OP stated that her DD has been in therapy for 2 months, then asked if she should go on meds. The first couple of posts were people who stated "yes". They jumped directly to meds. Meds aren't evil, per se, but it is over prescribed, in part because of pharma greed, and doctors who are quick to solve the issue with rx because that is the easier route for them, too. |
Anonymous
These are the same people who think ivermectin cures COVID. |
Anonymous
My neurologist told me to give DD magnesium and vit B for her migraines rather than medicating. I suppose you think he also believes in crystals and ivermectin cures covid. |
Anonymous
So when my ob/gyn said to do chamomile tea with cinnamon and ginger for bad PMS cramps, I should have asked for oxycodone instead? I am a bone marrow transplant nurse and do you know what works best for nausea in my patients? Not Zofran. Essential oils and acupuncture. Worked every.single.time. Stop acting like ingesting man-induced chemicals are the only thing that can help a person. It’s scary |