Medicated Child

The Medicated Child The docudrama Medicated Child shows how there is a miss of knowledge on how to diagnose and treat children with Bi Polar Disorder. early(a) on before proper research was done, children were often diagnosed with ADHD kinda of the proper BI Polar diagnosis. This can be attri justed to the fact that the symptoms be so similar. Doctors often feel treatment of such affections can solo be treated by medications, however, some psychologists believe that there are other methods that can be used. They do not pauperization children to be on so many daily medications.In my opinion the doctors in this documentary were to quick to diagnose and medicate the children with these disorders. They used amend guesses on the compositors case of treatment to use. In some cases the children were on 8 or 9 different medications daily. This much medication or any mind-altering nerve center given to a child whose mind is still developing could get down and is shown here to st rike long term effects on the appease of their lives and development in society. There is a feel that the children may have grown out of these st mount ups in their lives but were never given the chance to come into their own.The parents seemed to be looking for a quick fix to their kids acting out. When in reality, what child from 3-5 doesnt have emotional outbursts and the inability to harbor their impulses? Parenting and guidance gather up to come into come into play for these children. Children in this age range are easily molded and might just need some guidance and structure added to their life before going slap-up to medications. This is not to say that mental illness does not exist in some young children, but in some cases other outlets of assist and treatment should to be sought out before giving affectionate and heavy doses of medications to your child.The health care providers in the video seemed to neglect and testing or options of treatment for the young patien ts and just opted to add more than prescriptions and raise dosages of already existing medications. The parents appeared to have a feeling that something wasnt right but went along with doctors orders anyway receivable to their lack of knowledge on the subject and situation. Jacob was diagnosed with Bi charged disorder at 3 years old when his teachers suggested to his parents that he was to hyperactive and inevitable ome sort of treatment. He was initially diagnosed and treated for ADHD but shortly after his parents decided that he was being too heavily medicated and valued him to be taken off the meds. It was discovered shortly after the hospital stay where he was being detoxed, that he actually had Bi glacial disorder. At 16 Jacob is still on medications to treat bi polar disorder, but I feel that the over medication and vast armament of chemicals he was exposed to when he was a child heavily influenced and reprobate his development into adolescence.It is my overall opini on from this video that we need to look at all options when treating children with mental illnesses. Medication can be useful but needs to be monitored carefully and combined with therapies. Parents need to be educated on what the medications can do to their child. The young children in this video leave grow up to be adults living in our society and we want them to be as happy, healthy and productive as possible.