Is ADHD just the wrong diagnosis for this other mental disorder label?

Labels, drugs and the consequences.

A reader shared this link with me regarding ADHD and bipolar in children and the overmedicating of our children.

May is Mental Health Awareness Month (thankfully, it is not called Mental Health Acceptance Month yet)

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I thought this old (from 2008) documentary was going to be about how ADHD is overdiagnosed and children are overmedicated, but I was wrong.

It is a PBS link, so I was wary about what information would be presented in the documentary, and after watching it, I was right.

The documentary started out discussing children with ADHD and medicating them and then transitioned to how these children may be misdiagnosed and not have ADHD but have bipolar.

The premise was that these kids do not need one ADHD medication but instead a psychotropic drug cocktail for their bipolar.

This 2008 documentary angered me so much that I had to stop it several times and walk away. These journalists should be embarrassed if this is an example of mainstream investigative journalism.

No challenging questions were posed to any of the doctors in the movie.

Not once did they discuss root causes, underlying imbalances, or even fundamental dietary issues in the movie.

Early on in the video, a toddler diagnosed with bipolar disorder was eating a corn dog and cookie and drinking a blue Gatorade.

Perhaps tantrums and fits of rage are associated with colorings or dyes, sugar, or the long list of additives and toxins in the corn dog. Or maybe they are related to a lack of healthy protein and fat that a developing brain needs.

Nope. Not once even considered.

The movie discusses how the drugs for bipolar are untested in children, so doctors must use caution. They state that research is not done on children using these drugs because of the risks.

However, when the pharmaceutical industry was provided with an incentive, lo and behold, testing these drugs in children suddenly became a safe option.

Regarding this, I did not see any caution used when, at each visit, the doctor increased the dosage or added another drug to the cocktail for the children in the documentary.

Imagine a 4-year-old on a cocktail of 4 plus antipsychotic drugs!

What the documentary also fails to mention is that none of these drugs have been tested as a cocktail of 4 plus drugs and given to a 4-year-old.

You can see the effects in one of the teen boys who now have permanent neurological neck rolling and listen to how his voice is always slurred from being overmedicated.

In another section, a girl with bipolar goes to see her psychiatrist and explains she has been crying more because of bullying at school and because her dad was deployed.

The doctor stated it is hard to determine what emotions are normal and which are bipolar. He ended up increasing her medication dosage.

Seriously! How could he identify sadness and tearfulness as an unnatural response to bullying and a dad’s deployment that required medication?

The message throughout the movie is to get the correct diagnosis so the child can get the right drug.

Toward the end, a doctor proudly states he is medicating BEFORE they have bipolar. He said he is identifying pre-cursors to the illness and is drugging them ahead of time.

Caution: If you have a child enrolled in public school, some schools provide questionnaires to “help identify mental illness in children” so that the “children can get the help they need.”

In reality, these questionnaires are designed to indicate a mental health issue and funnel the children through the drug funnel via NAMI (National Association of Mental Illness). What the doctor was stating before is that they have a mental illness with this new “testing” within the public school system.

Not once was it asked why children as young as 4 have these issues.

Not once was the rising rates of mental illness in children asked about.

It was, golly, gee, we do not know why, but hey, we have all these drugs to help keep these kids under control.

Very little attention was given to alternative options. The only alternative mentioned was brain balance, and then, quickly, doctors indicated that there was no science behind its use and discouraged it.

It was horrific to watch this mainstream absolute trash of a documentary.

It was another reminder of how captured and corrupt mainstream news is.

Bottom Line

If you suspect behavioral issues in your child, do not start with medications. Work with holistic professionals to help identify underlying imbalances first.

Once the child gets on these drugs, more than likely, they will never get off. They may be left with permanent neurological damage. Many of the add-on drugs are just chasing the symptoms caused by other medications. Show my posts some love, please!

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