Yes! I am disthymic dysthimic???
I don't believe clinically speaking children and adolescents can be diagnosed with bipolar? Atleast i have read that in numerous places. The use of drugs for bi polar became sickeningly common in kids with ADHD etc, because the drug companies wanted to know more about it. Paxil, for example is like to my understanding no longer legal to even prescribe to children.
There are some more recent schools of thought that are saying ADHD is early symptoms of bi polar... Or bi polar in children. But based on what i have read i would think twice before continueing to use a shrink that diagnosed my child who by the very nature of being a child can not be bi polar which is accepted by the majority of the scientific community or so my reading indicates. I will try to refind some of it later for you.
Also, i believe it is very depressing as a dyslexic with ADHD to always be told i am stupid by society. The disrespect and cruelty we are subjected to kind of.... I believe, over time causes brain chemical issues to happen. Being treated differently and put under a microscope and treated as subhuman by all those experts.... It hurts. I wonder how much dysfunction post labeling is actually a direct result of the cruel and unusual labeling process itself.
I would keep my kid off of all medication, so long as they are not a threat of a physical nature to themselves or others. Instead i would find a better way to deal with my kid and do all i could and then some to have my kid treated as normally as possible. If, when they become adults they are diagnosed bi polar.... Well maybe they really do have it. In which case, it would then be their decision how to treat it. I think that is the best way to handle it as a child who's parents forced pills down my throat often using extortive and physically violent methods. I think medication needs to remain a last resort. I think there are numerous ways to handle these issues and one needs to find these methods before reaching for chemicals which may alter the brain's development which starts at birth and continues into the mid 20s before it is fully developed. Yes they all want to know what their nifty new drugs most immediate effects are. But no one seems to give a damn about the long term effects of the drugs on the development of a child's brain as there has been little to no testing done on that. If we were valued by these experts as people more would have been done on that front to make sure we were not damaged long term. To them, we are already damaged useless sacks of skin and they try to make others view us the same way. They don't seem to understand, our minds are different not inferior. We still think and we still feel. We still grow as people. Struggling itself is hard enough but with the messages pased to us by society... Ofcourse many grow up very very very depressed. I personally think my dysthimia, is a direct result of being force fed a whole host of drugs. They diagnosed *me* once with bi polar. It was laughable as my mother actually stood up told the doc he was a quack and stormed out hauling me with her. You see, i had my down times, but half of diagnosis of bi polar means there are the manic episodes too... I never had a manic episode in all my life Not until good old paxil made me mental. So there they were medicating me for bi polar but the medicine was making me mental. So what did they do??? They added a downer to my upper.... then a drug to help me sleep ofcourse none of these drugs helped at all and i kept telling them that but they always wanted me on it a little longer so they could report back to the drug company their findings. Zoloft, paxil, depacote which made me gain over 100 pounds in just under a month. I wish i was joking. I was 110 pounds at 17. Then the depacote for nearly a month..... Nothing else changed.... I was still active.... And for no reason except popping the pill i ended up 219 pounds less than a month later. Real good for a 17 year old girl's self esteem. The doc actually wanted me to keep taking it... Mum had finally had enough of their bullsh*t though by then...
What is next??? Are they going to say that people with LD just don't see the world normally which means we are all delusional and start pumping us full of medicine for schizophrenia?! When does this mind set of 'test the dangerous stuff on a specified group of 'throw away' children' going to end???
I am a student, of archaeology i have plenty of experience in the field. I am dyslexic, and my emphasis has been in 2 areas but one more so than the other. The first lesser emphasized would be studying the evolution of man. The second is egyptology. I am dyslexic. I am also fairly fluent in some 6 languages, western music notation and theory as well as ancient greek music notation and theory. On top of that, my jobs have included translating hieroglyphs and hieratic scrip and even old coptic. Because i am dyslexic and an epigrapher. No thanks to their medicine. What i am not, is someone less worthy than chimpanzee who is being used for drug testing.
