I like this Doc's Newsletters - thought this might help out a brother ~:0)
Toddler tantrums now a mental disorder?
If your kid likes to throw a fit when he doesn't get what he wants, he's probably just an ordinary run-of-the-mill brat... but not according to the psychiatric industry. They want you to believe he's mentally ill -- and they want to pump him full of meds.
Shrinks are in the middle of updating the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. That's their list of ordinary character traits and flaws wrapped up in fancy names to make them sound like diseases.
One of the proposed new conditions is "temper dysregulation with dysphoria." Symptoms: "severe, recurrent outbursts of temper" that are "grossly out of proportion to the situation" several times a week in kids under 10.
Sound familiar? Of course it does -- it describes just about every kid who ever existed. A parent's job is to teach them, over time, how to behave like human beings.
But that doesn't make much money, does it?
Shrinks want you to believe these kids are mentally damaged monsters... and they're ready to give your child an early lesson in drug addiction instead of the firm, guiding hand they need.
But what did you expect from this shady industry?
They're also looking to turn laziness ("cognitive tempo disorder") and anger ("intermittent explosive disorder") into full-blown adult mental illnesses. They're even looking to reclassify teen "irritability" as a new psychiatric disorder.
Forget the shrinks -- these new "disorders" are simply part of growing up. If you do suspect a real problem in your child's brain, visit a neurologist.
And for Pete's sake, keep your kid far away from the local psychiatrist.
Intermittently explosive,
William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.
Toddler tantrums now a mental disorder?
If your kid likes to throw a fit when he doesn't get what he wants, he's probably just an ordinary run-of-the-mill brat... but not according to the psychiatric industry. They want you to believe he's mentally ill -- and they want to pump him full of meds.
Shrinks are in the middle of updating the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. That's their list of ordinary character traits and flaws wrapped up in fancy names to make them sound like diseases.
One of the proposed new conditions is "temper dysregulation with dysphoria." Symptoms: "severe, recurrent outbursts of temper" that are "grossly out of proportion to the situation" several times a week in kids under 10.
Sound familiar? Of course it does -- it describes just about every kid who ever existed. A parent's job is to teach them, over time, how to behave like human beings.
But that doesn't make much money, does it?
Shrinks want you to believe these kids are mentally damaged monsters... and they're ready to give your child an early lesson in drug addiction instead of the firm, guiding hand they need.
But what did you expect from this shady industry?
They're also looking to turn laziness ("cognitive tempo disorder") and anger ("intermittent explosive disorder") into full-blown adult mental illnesses. They're even looking to reclassify teen "irritability" as a new psychiatric disorder.
Forget the shrinks -- these new "disorders" are simply part of growing up. If you do suspect a real problem in your child's brain, visit a neurologist.
And for Pete's sake, keep your kid far away from the local psychiatrist.
Intermittently explosive,
William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.
