Updating the DSM to expand the mass drugging of the developing brain

Mass diagnosing and drugging of children is posing a threat to the society and lays harmful consequences on the lives of toddlers and infants. This information has been issued as a warning by Dr. Peter Breggin and he declares it to be as Conscience of Psychiatry.

Dr. Nathaniel Lehrman, author of the book "Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs", is of belief that giving of drugs to infants and toddlers can hamper the brains and is similar to criminal activity. He further said, "Giving them these drugs has no rationale, and ignores the basic fact that youngsters are very sensitive to their environments, both social and chemical, with the juvenile brain easily damaged by the latter".

No worries about the mass drugging of the developing brain, not at all.
The updated DSM-5 will soon be here, to okay all the drugging of children.
Much to the profitable delight of big pharmaceutical companies..

Does your child have temper tantrums? Don't most of them?
For that we have the right diagnosis, with necessary psychiatric medications, of course-
How about 'Temper Dysregulation Disorder With Dysphoria'- Severe outbursts grossly out of proportion to the situation. Isn't every temper tantrum, through time immemorial, a severe outburst out of proportion to the sitation?

Why this new diagnosis?
The Temper Dysregulation Disorder diagnosis is an attempt "to create a less-severe diagnostic "home" for these children." I kid you not!
Why the need for a less severe diagnostic home ?(Are you noting the language useage?)

The overdiagnosis of bipolar has been a "colossal embarrassment to the field," says Edward Shorter, a professor of the history of medicine and professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto's faculty of medicine.

"So they've tried to come up with another diagnosis that will somehow let you diagnose unruly children. But maybe they're unruly, full stop.... To give them a psychiatric diagnosis and treat them with antipsychotics is insane."

How about Psychosis Risk Syndrome- which attempts to identify and treat youngsters before they become psychotic. How would this be even possible?
Moodiness, sullen and brooding teens? Raging hormonal overreactions as is the norm in the teen years or Psychosis Risk Syndrome?

Which way would the drug companies look at that, normal or a psychosis risk?
Read on, read on......

The changes being proposed for the manual of mental illness -- whose sales since 2000 have topped $40-million -- would create even more patients for whom psychoactive drugs can be prescribed.

Oh, I would think they prefer the Psychosis risk and the Temper Disregulation diagnosis.

When you consider that the drugging of children has been such a growth industry for the pharmaceutical companies-

Increasingly, some of the most potent, mood-altering drugs are going to children. Between 2005-09, the number of prescriptions forsecond-generation antipsychotics for children under 13 more than doubled, according to IMS data. Last year, nearly 700,000 prescriptions for such antipsychotics were dispensed for kids under 13.

I have an additional question, what is wrong with the parents that allow this to be done to their childs developing brain?
Misguided faith in doctors? Misguided faith in the motivation of the pharmaceutical business?
Laziness?
I don't want to be cruel or harsh. Raising kids is tough, been there/ done that.
It can be completely nerve wracking. It pushes you to emotional highs and emotional lows.
Children, despite your wishes and mine, are not going to make parent's lives any easier.
Their going to challenge parents, every step of the way. They have to. How do parents expect their children to grow into functioning responsible adults if they don't?