tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10424035.post114556731278554248..comments2023-09-11T08:58:24.710-06:00Comments on Reach Upward: Calming Our Nerves ChemicallyScott Hinrichshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11831447472339880148noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10424035.post-1148579953730783922006-05-25T11:59:00.000-06:002006-05-25T11:59:00.000-06:00Appreciate your blog,i have a victims support page...Appreciate your blog,i have a victims support page against Eli Lilly for it's defective Zyprexa product causing my diabetes.--Daniel Haszard www.zyprexa-victims.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10424035.post-1147705966317943942006-05-15T09:12:00.000-06:002006-05-15T09:12:00.000-06:00David, I think you're right on the money with resp...David, I think you're right on the money with respect to a lower tolerance for variation. I think we used to accept some types of idiosyncrasies more than we do today. (But today we accept a lot of abnormality as OK.) We now look at these common variations as failures in our systems: schools, parenting, child welfare services, etc., but especially failings within our government systems.<BR/><BR/>Our government systems wield so much power that the idea that a system might require changes seems far-fetched. The opposite seems to be true: the people being served require changing. Was the institution made for the people or the people for the institution? Since we revere the institutions above the people, we medicate people to make them fit into what the system defines as the norm.<BR/><BR/>Psychiatry today assumes a biological base for all psychological conditions. Hence, the answer is always chemicals. If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. We push (legal) drugs as the answer to everything, and then we wonder why so many people are hooked on drugs (legal or otherwise).Scott Hinrichshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11831447472339880148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10424035.post-1147369349730647232006-05-11T11:42:00.000-06:002006-05-11T11:42:00.000-06:00This is a subject that I take very seriously becau...This is a subject that I take very seriously because I am related to a number of people who take (or have taken) these types of prescriptions. In one case, a case of depression was treated with 6 different drugs with almost daily variances in the doseage. This eventually led to a hospitalization. I am convinced that the hospitalzation was coused by the drugs, not the dpression. I also think that the psychiatrist that was prescribing the drigs and changing the doses so often should have his license revoked.<BR/><BR/>Apart from that specific case, I have often wondered many of the same things from your post. Some of the increase in psychological disorders comes from our increased ability to recognize problems. Some of it also comes, I am convinced, from having a lower tolerance for variation. That's why so many kids are diagnosed with ADD/ADHD today when the problem was nonexistent 30 years ago.<BR/>Your suggestions for full disclosure and full transparency are good measures to start combatting this. Another good measure would be to make it illegal for pharmaceutical companies to market to the public. We should not have commercials telling us to "Ask your doctor if {this drug} is right for you." Doctors should make any prescription based on the symptoms of the patient and not based on the symptom that "I heard about a drug on the TV that can help this kind of thing and I began to notice that I had all those symptoms."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10424035.post-1145578363316599932006-04-20T18:12:00.000-06:002006-04-20T18:12:00.000-06:00Rep. Mike Morely passed legislation in 2005 restri...Rep. Mike Morely passed legislation in 2005 restricting schools' ability to recommend psychotropic drugs, but unfortunately it was vetoed. In 2006, he ran HB 299, which passed the House but died in the Senate. It is a good bill, and it could use some citizen support.steve u.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07878364264013490969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10424035.post-1145572404860491932006-04-20T16:33:00.000-06:002006-04-20T16:33:00.000-06:00ie: "better PARENTING"... it would help if I actua...ie: "better PARENTING"... it would help if I actually READ my stuff before hitting the button... <BR/><BR/>"DUH-DERRR".That One Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02733838946095632239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10424035.post-1145572210888206422006-04-20T16:30:00.000-06:002006-04-20T16:30:00.000-06:00AMEN to your last paragraph, Reach. You also note ...AMEN to your last paragraph, Reach. You also note that you wonder how WE ever survived our elementary education years... how did we do that? Are our educational professionals looking for an easy out where behavioral issues are concerned? Are we as parents not doing what we need to be doing? Could these issues be remedied with better parently and more successful behavior monitoring and modification on our parts? I have 8 kids, none of whom have ever been on behavior drugs, to the dismay of some teachers, in a couple of the children's cases... I think the question remains, how did this phenomenon develop? I go back to your last paragraph for the likely answer.<BR/><BR/>Good thoughts man.That One Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02733838946095632239noreply@blogger.com