Comments: Anti-Depressants Misused in Children: Duh!
Speaking of depression, meds and kids, I don't think psyhciatric medication for adolescents with eating disorders does ANYTHING!!!
I've suffered from eating disorder stuff ever since I was 12. Twice, my weight got so low that I had to be hospitilized.
I was put on Zoloft. I was to be on antidepressents for the next four years.
It did NOTHING!!!
It does NOTHING!!!
It'll do NOTHING!!!
It's just complete garbage. Treating anorexia with meds does zip. And I'm not only speaking for myself: When I was in those psych units, I met many other girls who were on medication, and somehow I got the feeling that meds weren't too hot for them either.
The ONLY way to treat eating disorders is with behavoiral and cognitive therapy.
In fact, eating disorders, in my opinion, are harder to treat than schizphrenia or bipolar. For schizophrenics and bipolars, all you do is give them a handful of pill, and voila, things, most of the time, will be somewhat better. For anas however, the healing has to come from within -- the only thing that will be effacicous with them, is if they themselves put in a huge, gigantic, collosal amount of physical, emotional and mental effort.
Does anyone disagree with me? Is there anyone out there whom meds have worked for in regard to eating disorders? If there is, let me know.
Posted by Gwen Davis at November 21, 2005 07:44 PM