Re: Congress is Looking at Psychiatric pay-offs

[Guest guest]

On the other hand I was talking to our friend who happens to be a

psychiatrist and he said that there were parents that were wanting him

to write prescriptions for their kids without even willing to hear

about anything else. There are Rx drum beaters on both sides of the

fence. I would say that parents like us burrowing into the fields of

herbs and supplements are the minority. The rest of the world out

there wants a quick fix.

He further said he did not know where to send the ASD kids (nice job

government!!!, a pediatrician said the same thing to me a few months

ago) and I gave him the ARI website for reference.

Oh and he also said that in the last year they are looking to make

drugs for kids that are neuroprotective, apparently until now Big

Pharma was aware that these drugs can fry kids' brains. Did you ever

see a disclaimer to that effect? " Warning: SSRIs can fry your brain!! "

Gayatri

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> Dopn't mean to be too political today, but just feel the desire to

> share that maybe, just maybe things are looking up.� The New York

> Times

> is reporting that Congress is looking into psychiatrists getting

> paid

> by pharma.� This might explain why they are so eager to give our

> children lots of medicine without testing to see what's going on

> inside

> their bodies.� My son's last psychiatrist, before we started our

> successful recovery journey, said that he would not order testing or

> refer for testing because there was nothing anyone could do for

> him.

> He was wrong, the truth is that there was nothing he could do for

> him

> of any substance.

>

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> Heidi N

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[Guest guest]

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> Gayatri

....then there are those of us out there that look for doctor's to be " lab

order'ers " heee

I thought of all of us that have lab wish lists. What's bad is when your

explaining to the

doctor what the lab will tell him.

Marisha

> On the other hand I was talking to our friend who happens to be a

> psychiatrist and he said that there were parents that were wanting him

> to write prescriptions for their kids without even willing to hear

> about anything else. There are Rx drum beaters on both sides of the

> fence. I would say that parents like us burrowing into the fields of

> herbs and supplements are the minority. The rest of the world out

> there wants a quick fix.

>

> He further said he did not know where to send the ASD kids (nice job

> government!!!, a pediatrician said the same thing to me a few months

> ago) and I gave him the ARI website for reference.

>

> Oh and he also said that in the last year they are looking to make

> drugs for kids that are neuroprotective, apparently until now Big

> Pharma was aware that these drugs can fry kids' brains. Did you ever

> see a disclaimer to that effect? " Warning: SSRIs can fry your brain!! "

>

> Gayatri

>

[Guest guest]

Yes. My now 16 year old son had several psychiatrists, and most acted just like this. They were especially trying to push Prozac and Zoloft. As a matter of fact, everyone I talk to on psych meds has been prescribed one or both of those at some time no matter what the diagnosis. Good thing my boy stopped needing those crazy psych meds a couple of years ago when we started the recovery journey. I still own them all a letter of thanks for nothing or rather my son does.

Heidi N

My husband's doctor prescribed the newest (at that time) anti-depressant. After taking it for a few days, it made my husband irrational. I told the doctor, at the next appt, what had happened, and that I had thrown the meds out. The doctor got really angry and said he guessed that meant my husband didn't need meds, and so he wouldn't write a prescription for anything different! I suspected he must be getting kick-backs for prescribing certain meds, which would explain his strange reaction. My husband didn't go back to him. We should have filed a complaint, but there was alot going on at the time, and this sort of got lost in the shuffle. KimGet fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today.