"NeuroInvestment "?????

Anyone else see the irony (and the problem) in this?

So, family dysfunction, poor discipline/parenting, heaven forbid sexual abuse, or, quite honestly, the everyday business of really young kids developing social skills and figuring out how appropriate boundaries and interacting with others work - all nonpsychiatric things one can see with a toddler or young child - now equal childhood bipolar disorder. You've got to be kidding me. I was skeptical of childhood bipolar when it first hit the news, and it's sad that more and more parents seem to use it as an excuse to dope up their kids rather than take the time to discipline them and teach them how to be civilized human beings.

Even if there are legit bipolar children it disgusts me that they're being thrown on the med-go-round that young - and I say this as someone on meds. Trying everything on the planet for two years to find a cocktail that works, monitoring my blood levels, avoiding anything that might cause an adverse interaction with the pills is hard enough as an adult. The idea of putting a three year old through it, especially when their brains are still developing, is tanamount to abuse as far as I'm concerned. I'd like to think that these parents have other options before they resort to medication that's already harsh enough on an adult's system, let alone a kid's.

Interesting piece from Reuters. Thank you. And, yes, I see a major problem in this. "Parents" are finding more and more ways to attempt to repair the fallout of their lousy parenting skills. Health insurance companies demand fast and senseless treatment, even if it means prescribing atypicals to 2 year olds. And drug companies, with their billions, are buying us all out. Pretty sad.

For more sceptical analysis of the "childhood bipolar" concept, see this recent post on one of most critical, withering anti-psychiatry blogs of the present day.

I wonder what percentage of these children have parents who were hooked on psych drugs before the children came along.

After all if you think you're bipolar and that bipolar disorder is inherited, you're going to think your baby has it too, and if you think the drugs are correcting a chemical imbalance in your brain, you're going to want you're baby's brain fixed as quick as possible so maybe what were seeing here is the children of generation rx, folks who believe so intensely in the biomedical myth because they all got labeled adhd in first grade, depressed in high school and bipolar in early adulthood.

Is there going to be an outbreak of schizophrenia that looks like dementia for these zombies when they hit old age since these are folks that like a new trendy psych label for each stage of life? Nah, maybe the biopsych backlash will fix this problem in the next 15 years and the bipolar epidemic will be recognized for the mass social hysteria that it is.

This all comes back to this child bipolar thing. I personally know four people diagnosed with bipolar under age 10. One stopped eating at age 9 and had anorexia her whole life aloong with legitimate manic episodes. One is my cousin who tried to strangle her principal and was more of an agitated depression, and the other 2, also my cousins, were just problem children with situational family problems. So that is one out of four cases.
I personally do not believe a TODDLER can be bipolar. That is absurd, and this is all some giant risk that is being taken at the cast of a die. In ten or twenty years we will be hearing how they all suffered major brain damage and social impairment from being institutionalized and medicated so young.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/3225078/NZ-urged-to-shift-stress-on-drugs-as-first-option

NZ urged to shift stress on drugs as first option

The Australian Government's move away from drugs as the first treatment for ADHD sufferers has prompted New Zealand to review its own recommendations. Blam Blam Blam

Time will tell-Iam not holding my breath-Small NZ-Cheap drugs-Mental health system so far on its knees it looks like its giving a blow-job

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/3248111/Results-of-drug-trial-for-ADHD-sufferers-prove-astonishing

The 32-year-old started taking micronutrients more than three months ago as part of a Canterbury University trial for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) sufferers. He says the difference is "phenomenal

The pills being trialled contain a mix of 36 minerals, vitamins and amino acids, such as magnesium, calcium and vitamin C.

well worth the read-Phil I wasnt sure where2put this-