Posted by Chairman_MAO on June 2, 2004, at 19:57:26
In reply to Re: my 12 yr old was prescribed ritalin today.. » Buckeye Fan, posted by zeugma on June 2, 2004, at 19:44:18
I never said that I agreed with the post, heh. It's just food for thought. I have ADD too, and being unmedicated is misery for me as well. But that does not mean that people do not use it as an excuse to medicate children to make them docile, even when they can concentrate just fine. You seem to acknowledge the point which I was trying to drive home by posting that column, which is that medication is serious business for children and one should make sure that it is being used in the interest of the CHILD, not the parents or school system.
There is also the possibility that there is nothing wrong with people like us; we just have hardware that isn't well-suited for most jobs and life-task scenarios in this society, and certain drugs help us out. This is not the forum to get into the finer points of concept of mental illness, but it suffices to say that Thomas Szasz is a genius, whether or not you agree with him. I personally think he is overzealous, but he could argue any of us into the ground ... Do you not think that his reference to masturbatory insanity was relevant at all?
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