Posted by Elizabeth on September 25, 2001, at 17:48:37
In reply to overmedicated, posted by gracey on September 25, 2001, at 10:59:13
If someone had offered me stimulants for depression/ADD when I was a kid (say, 6 or 7 years old), I would have jumped at the opportunity. Of course, I was an odd duck, and I probably would have gone and read everything I could find about the disorders and the medications, too. The importance of making an informed decision can't be stressed enough.
BTW: stimulants are very safe, especially compared with neuroleptics, tricyclic antidepressants, etc. It's not reasonable to lump them together as though they were all essentially the same.
(Not going to bother trying to argue with value judgments, except to note that your post is full of them.)
-elizabeth
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