Hi all,

I am an advid fan of the program Frontline on PBS. I watched the program: The medicated child:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/medicatedchild/

I have to admit I was disturbed by it. I suggest anyone with children watch that show. It discusses about medicating children with mood disorders.

It is my opinion that too many children are being misdiagnosed and too many are being medicated.

The program says that kids as young as 2 years old are being given meds to stablize mood ... that is in my opinion insane.

Some children end up with ticks and other side effects.

In fact they say that much of the meds that are being prescribed have never been tested on children and that for the tests that have been done 90% of the meds do not work the same way in children than they do on adults.
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I would like all of you to go to the website:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/medicatedchild/

and watch the program. Lets discuss further.

Is it just me that feels that this whole thing of medicating young children is insane?