I think that giving any children antipsychotics is a way of control. People would rather control a child than treat them. Antipsychotic drugs have adverse side effects and do more harm than good. I seriously doubt that a young child is in need of antipsychotic drugs. Giving kids strong medication in lieu of therapy is more cost effective for Medicaid as opposed to how it would be for a private insurer. The people that usually prescribe these types of medication are not even psychiatrists, but family doctors and pediatricians. Now what do they know about mental disorders? They would rather medicate than to treat a so called mental disorder.
That is some bs in my opinion my younger brother was said to be bipolar but he is not bypolar but he has authority issues and will not accept people over him he has OCPD not bipolar and he has been taking meds for the wrong thing for years until someone said something to the doctors he was seeing and they really looked at him for real. Low income = problems is bs too i have low income and technically psychologically there is nothing wrong with me or my head but a doctor tried to say i was bipolar as well. There are just trying to make a quick buck a stress induced mood swing is not bipolar i did that once and lost my temper putting a hole in my door but that was an isolated incident and happened only once. I am not bipolar just i got mad once they are using one outburst to say bipolar and give pills to make money. DUMB JERKS
I believe giving children antipsychotics is wrong in a way. People ask for help or get help so that they can get better, not ignored. Giving those children the medicine without actually trying to help them is wrong. The antipsychotic drugs end up hurting them more then it does to help them. I believe that there should be a certain age limit to who can recieve antipsychotic drugs because young children may not know how to actually handle the drugs and the side effects could do alot of harm. It shouldn't be up to family doctors or pediaticians to prescribe antipsychotics to these children because they aren't psychiatrists and they don't know exactly what to say.
This article discusses the issue between giving Medicaid children antipsychotic drugs and middle class children therapy. I think that it is really unecessary to give young children antipsychotic drugs. The article explains why kids with Medicaid get the drugs rather than therapy like those with private insurance. Therapy it most costly and time consuming than drugs and the drugs fit the budget for Medicaid. Some antipsychotic drugs do more harm than they do to help. All they do is cover up the illness rather than treating it like therapy does. I think most pediatricians just don't feel like dealing with problems of kids, so they just prescribe them medicines. The article also states that children with Medicaid are given antipsychotic drugs because they have more stress and problems due to financial issues.
i dont think that people should give people that are middle class that med just to make things in life simpler for them because thats not they way to handle things. Antipsychotic drugs have adverse side effects and do more harm than good.the boy that they mention also he has been taking meds for the wrong thing for years until someone said something to the doctors he was seeing and they really looked at him for real.
I think that giving children antipsychotics is way to avoid good parenting and good health care. Parents who don't feel like doing anything for a needy child will say the child was acting crazy and put them on the medication. This makes for a zombie like society of children with psychological problems. The medication may quiet or still the child for a moment but it still doesn't help in the long run. Doctors that don't want to properly treat a problem will give to children who seem difficult to treat. This is also making for a bad economy. Now adults that need that medication may have to pay outrageous prices to receive the treatment a toddler got. This is a sad fact.
Giving kids anitpshychotics is a way for them to not deal with them. The fact that they give lower class kids these drugs shows that they want to be in control. Psychiatrists dont even prescribe Medicaid but its family doctors. So this shows that its just parents trying to be in control and not deal with their kids. I don't think that kids need drugs because they act their age. Giving kids drugs because they run around all day and is 7 years old is wrong. I don't understand how family doctors could classify them as being mentally disorder or unstable. They should leave that kind of stuff to psychiatrists that actually know what they're doing.
I believe that they give children Antipsychotics to keep them under control. Keeping someone under control is much easier to do rather than to treat them to do so. Most of the time this type of Medicad is prescribed but often times its not clear as to why it is prescribed. Often times this type of prescription is normally provided by family docrtors; only because the parent believes its neccessary and or because the doctor believes there are fewer options left. Just giving someone medication to control them isnt right it should be done to treat them. Treating someone eventually helps them cope with whatever it is that they have rather than controling it all the time.
I am shocked and appalled by this because now we are medicating children, God knows what side effects they have that can alter their childhood. It's sickening to me because we as people are so selfish and so self oriented that we cannot take the time and the money to help a child who is poor with the least amount of treatment that can be alot more beneficial to them rather than medicate and sedate them to the point of drooling or apathy. This disturbs me I would use medication as a last resort for my child even as far as my nieces and nephews. I would want every doctor who could to help my child without medicating them, this is a punch in the stomach for the humanity of Americans. Just because they can't afford it they are denied treatment like the middle class or the rich. It only widens the divide that we have amongst our classes already.
I think its unfair and not justice that middle class children are given four times as much medicine as rich children. The fact that the parents of rich children can actually afford to have their children sent to psychologists rather than giving them more medicine than they need in order to solve their problems. Even though the middle-class children are receiving medicaid and free medicine which is a good thing because its free, it is also harmful because they are not receiving the medicine they need. Instead they are being given medicine that doesnt have anything to do with their problems. The article said that one girl was diagnosed with being BiPolar and she was given medicine for it when she really had insomnia. It was said that the private insurance children were more likely to receive drugs by the F.D.A than the middle class children. But sadly this is how the system works.
I have no idea what this article is talking about iRead it like three times and it just gets boring the more iRead it. iGuess they are trying to say that Medicaid is bad. iThink iRemember it saying something like it contributes to psychological problems and psychiatric disorders...something like that. Then they talk about poor children and their higher-risk of mental health problems. Medicaid also may put children on other drugs, most of those drugs being off-labled drugs. So overall if your poor your on Medicaid and your children will be fucked up in the head.
Ronald Silver I think the article is correct with the assessment than poorer people get less mental help than their rich counter parts. I believe that the healthcare system needs to change so that poor/underprivileged kids and adults can get the help they need to have a happy successful life. The current system is one the caters to the upper-class people in America and that penalties the poor people for being poor, its like we as a society have Hobophobia. I think what we need to do is hold the Medicaid responsible for the health of the people they are supposed to be helping.
I think it is a shame that Medicaid children receive faster medication then a private insurance customers. They both should get the exact treatment as the other. If one is getting medicine then the other should get medicine. However I think that they should try counseling before they prescribe medicine for the children. I really think that children should not even be given powerful anti psychotic. If children have a lesser rate then getting sick, then why are the first to get medicine. They really shouldn't prescribe children with medicine but rather with therapy. Medicine should not be the first answer to a child who is acting abnormal.
My opinions aren't that sure on wheather you should or should not give medecines to children. I mean it's just not right to. But if it works for them to like cures them or what ever, then they really should keep giving them pills and medecine. But if Antipsychotic drugs hurt some children, then I think that they should obviously be tooken off immedeatly. But there are also some doctors who I guess diagnose children to earn money from them really early instead of being able to wait until they get older. Also there are some children who SHOULD be diagnosed early to catch the disorder early before it get too bad.
i think that giving children antipsychotics is a way to be lazy and control children instead of helping them and solving there problem. nothing gets solved if you dont correctly solve the problem, giving medication to child in need of theorpy controls the child but it does not fix the problem.the drugs that give young children when they are younger effect the way they will grown up because every drug has a side effect if not numerous side effects will effect them later in their life. in my opinion there is a way to help everyone no one is just unable to be helped
it's a bit scary that doctors would give poor children that medicine. it basically means all they care about is money and not the child's health after they take the antipsychotics. it's also scary that parents would let the child take it. but if they're "poor" then i guess they will do everything that's cost effective. they basically have no choice. it's bad on there part because studies found that children found in low income families are more likely to have mental problems compared to kids in a decent income families. sometimes doctors are unsure of the children's problem but they give the antipsychotics anyway. looks like doctors really dont care.
I don't think it's fair that they prescribe these antipsychotics just so they don't have to pay for the therapy sessions. That's probably much more effective. They're just trying to control the problem, not fix it. Although it may be nice because the medicine is cheaper for the lower class than the middle, they should get the sessions because obviously doctors aren't the best at diagnosing patients with mental disorders
I think that insurance companies need to examine who they actually give aid to and what for. They all want to make money but it shouldn't be done by giving medicine to people that don't neccassarily need it. They need to pay for the serious problems such as therapy sessions and other counseling if it's really needed. Antipsychotic medicines have side affects that would then cause even farther problems and would make people need more insurance money to get treatment for what was suppose to help them. The doctors just gives medicine to us sometimes and we believe that it'll work because they prescribed it to us but we don't know if it'll really work or not
i think that giving children antipsychotics is something that can damage them. just think, diagnosing a child with a psychotic disease is inaccurate, this is only because children aren't fully developed, and it's not right to label them with a disease that might not even be. on top of that giving them medication is something that really can mess them up mentally and physically. especially since they are not showing any type of sign of issues as a child. in my opinion, all children have issues. if they are going to diagnose some children with a disease and give them meds, then they might as well diagnose all children, because they are all not 100% developed.
Giving children antipsychotics is retarded. I think its a way for the parent to control their children more and also for them to have less parenting time. Having children take these drugs is harmful. The side effects can either be heart problems or weight gain. I mean what are the doctors thinking? They arent really checking the kid out to see what they have...they are just giving them medicine to move them along. This shows how lazy doctors have become and how they will prescribe anything. This article also talked about how "middle class" children are getting the more medicine rich children, but in all actuality...the medicine they are getting is harmful for them.
I think that giving any children antipsychotics is a way of control. People would rather control a child than treat them. Antipsychotic drugs have adverse side effects and do more harm than good. I seriously doubt that a young child is in need of antipsychotic drugs. Giving kids strong medication in lieu of therapy is more cost effective for Medicaid as opposed to how it would be for a private insurer. The people that usually prescribe these types of medication are not even psychiatrists, but family doctors and pediatricians. Now what do they know about mental disorders? They would rather medicate than to treat a so called mental disorder.
ReplyDeleteThat is some bs in my opinion my younger brother was said to be bipolar but he is not bypolar but he has authority issues and will not accept people over him he has OCPD not bipolar and he has been taking meds for the wrong thing for years until someone said something to the doctors he was seeing and they really looked at him for real. Low income = problems is bs too i have low income and technically psychologically there is nothing wrong with me or my head but a doctor tried to say i was bipolar as well. There are just trying to make a quick buck a stress induced mood swing is not bipolar i did that once and lost my temper putting a hole in my door but that was an isolated incident and happened only once. I am not bipolar just i got mad once they are using one outburst to say bipolar and give pills to make money. DUMB JERKS
ReplyDeleteI believe giving children antipsychotics is wrong in a way. People ask for help or get help so that they can get better, not ignored. Giving those children the medicine without actually trying to help them is wrong. The antipsychotic drugs end up hurting them more then it does to help them. I believe that there should be a certain age limit to who can recieve antipsychotic drugs because young children may not know how to actually handle the drugs and the side effects could do alot of harm. It shouldn't be up to family doctors or pediaticians to prescribe antipsychotics to these children because they aren't psychiatrists and they don't know exactly what to say.
ReplyDeleteThis article discusses the issue between giving Medicaid children antipsychotic drugs and middle class children therapy. I think that it is really unecessary to give young children antipsychotic drugs. The article explains why kids with Medicaid get the drugs rather than therapy like those with private insurance. Therapy it most costly and time consuming than drugs and the drugs fit the budget for Medicaid. Some antipsychotic drugs do more harm than they do to help. All they do is cover up the illness rather than treating it like therapy does. I think most pediatricians just don't feel like dealing with problems of kids, so they just prescribe them medicines. The article also states that children with Medicaid are given antipsychotic drugs because they have more stress and problems due to financial issues.
ReplyDeletei dont think that people should give people that are middle class that med just to make things in life simpler for them because thats not they way to handle things. Antipsychotic drugs have adverse side effects and do more harm than good.the boy that they mention also he has been taking meds for the wrong thing for years until someone said something to the doctors he was seeing and they really looked at him for real.
ReplyDeleteI think that giving children antipsychotics is way to avoid good parenting and good health care. Parents who don't feel like doing anything for a needy child will say the child was acting crazy and put them on the medication. This makes for a zombie like society of children with psychological problems. The medication may quiet or still the child for a moment but it still doesn't help in the long run. Doctors that don't want to properly treat a problem will give to children who seem difficult to treat. This is also making for a bad economy. Now adults that need that medication may have to pay outrageous prices to receive the treatment a toddler got. This is a sad fact.
ReplyDeleteGiving kids anitpshychotics is a way for them to not deal with them. The fact that they give lower class kids these drugs shows that they want to be in control. Psychiatrists dont even prescribe Medicaid but its family doctors. So this shows that its just parents trying to be in control and not deal with their kids. I don't think that kids need drugs because they act their age. Giving kids drugs because they run around all day and is 7 years old is wrong. I don't understand how family doctors could classify them as being mentally disorder or unstable. They should leave that kind of stuff to psychiatrists that actually know what they're doing.
ReplyDeleteI believe that they give children Antipsychotics to keep them under control. Keeping someone under control is much easier to do rather than to treat them to do so. Most of the time this type of Medicad is prescribed but often times its not clear as to why it is prescribed. Often times this type of prescription is normally provided by family docrtors; only because the parent believes its neccessary and or because the doctor believes there are fewer options left. Just giving someone medication to control them isnt right it should be done to treat them. Treating someone eventually helps them cope with whatever it is that they have rather than controling it all the time.
ReplyDeleteI am shocked and appalled by this because now we are medicating children, God knows what side effects they have that can alter their childhood. It's sickening to me because we as people are so selfish and so self oriented that we cannot take the time and the money to help a child who is poor with the least amount of treatment that can be alot more beneficial to them rather than medicate and sedate them to the point of drooling or apathy. This disturbs me I would use medication as a last resort for my child even as far as my nieces and nephews. I would want every doctor who could to help my child without medicating them, this is a punch in the stomach for the humanity of Americans. Just because they can't afford it they are denied treatment like the middle class or the rich. It only widens the divide that we have amongst our classes already.
ReplyDeleteI think its unfair and not justice that middle class children are given four times as much medicine as rich children. The fact that the parents of rich children can actually afford to have their children sent to psychologists rather than giving them more medicine than they need in order to solve their problems. Even though the middle-class children are receiving medicaid and free medicine which is a good thing because its free, it is also harmful because they are not receiving the medicine they need. Instead they are being given medicine that doesnt have anything to do with their problems. The article said that one girl was diagnosed with being BiPolar and she was given medicine for it when she really had insomnia. It was said that the private insurance children were more likely to receive drugs by the F.D.A than the middle class children. But sadly this is how the system works.
ReplyDeleteI have no idea what this article is talking about iRead it like three times and it just gets boring the more iRead it. iGuess they are trying to say that Medicaid is bad. iThink iRemember it saying something like it contributes to psychological problems and psychiatric disorders...something like that. Then they talk about poor children and their higher-risk of mental health problems. Medicaid also may put children on other drugs, most of those drugs being off-labled drugs. So overall if your poor your on Medicaid and your children will be fucked up in the head.
ReplyDeleteRonald Silver
ReplyDeleteI think the article is correct with the assessment than poorer people get less mental help than their rich counter parts. I believe that the healthcare system needs to change so that poor/underprivileged kids and adults can get the help they need to have a happy successful life. The current system is one the caters to the upper-class people in America and that penalties the poor people for being poor, its like we as a society have Hobophobia. I think what we need to do is hold the Medicaid responsible for the health of the people they are supposed to be helping.
I think it is a shame that Medicaid children receive faster medication then a private insurance customers. They both should get the exact treatment as the other. If one is getting medicine then the other should get medicine. However I think that they should try counseling before they prescribe medicine for the children. I really think that children should not even be given powerful anti psychotic. If children have a lesser rate then getting sick, then why are the first to get medicine. They really shouldn't prescribe children with medicine but rather with therapy. Medicine should not be the first answer to a child who is acting abnormal.
ReplyDeleteMy opinions aren't that sure on wheather you should or should not give medecines to children. I mean it's just not right to. But if it works for them to like cures them or what ever, then they really should keep giving them pills and medecine. But if Antipsychotic drugs hurt some children, then I think that they should obviously be tooken off immedeatly. But there are also some doctors who I guess diagnose children to earn money from them really early instead of being able to wait until they get older. Also there are some children who SHOULD be diagnosed early to catch the disorder early before it get too bad.
ReplyDeletei think that giving children antipsychotics is a way to be lazy and control children instead of helping them and solving there problem. nothing gets solved if you dont correctly solve the problem, giving medication to child in need of theorpy controls the child but it does not fix the problem.the drugs that give young children when they are younger effect the way they will grown up because every drug has a side effect if not numerous side effects will effect them later in their life. in my opinion there is a way to help everyone no one is just unable to be helped
ReplyDeleteit's a bit scary that doctors would give poor children that medicine. it basically means all they care about is money and not the child's health after they take the antipsychotics. it's also scary that parents would let the child take it. but if they're "poor" then i guess they will do everything that's cost effective. they basically have no choice. it's bad on there part because studies found that children found in low income families are more likely to have mental problems compared to kids in a decent income families. sometimes doctors are unsure of the children's problem but they give the antipsychotics anyway. looks like doctors really dont care.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's fair that they prescribe these antipsychotics just so they don't have to pay for the therapy sessions. That's probably much more effective. They're just trying to control the problem, not fix it. Although it may be nice because the medicine is cheaper for the lower class than the middle, they should get the sessions because obviously doctors aren't the best at diagnosing patients with mental disorders
ReplyDeleteI think that insurance companies need to examine who they actually give aid to and what for. They all want to make money but it shouldn't be done by giving medicine to people that don't neccassarily need it. They need to pay for the serious problems such as therapy sessions and other counseling if it's really needed. Antipsychotic medicines have side affects that would then cause even farther problems and would make people need more insurance money to get treatment for what was suppose to help them. The doctors just gives medicine to us sometimes and we believe that it'll work because they prescribed it to us but we don't know if it'll really work or not
ReplyDeletei think that giving children antipsychotics is something that can damage them. just think, diagnosing a child with a psychotic disease is inaccurate, this is only because children aren't fully developed, and it's not right to label them with a disease that might not even be. on top of that giving them medication is something that really can mess them up mentally and physically. especially since they are not showing any type of sign of issues as a child. in my opinion, all children have issues. if they are going to diagnose some children with a disease and give them meds, then they might as well diagnose all children, because they are all not 100% developed.
ReplyDeleteGiving children antipsychotics is retarded. I think its a way for the parent to control their children more and also for them to have less parenting time. Having children take these drugs is harmful. The side effects can either be heart problems or weight gain. I mean what are the doctors thinking? They arent really checking the kid out to see what they have...they are just giving them medicine to move them along. This shows how lazy doctors have become and how they will prescribe anything. This article also talked about how "middle class" children are getting the more medicine rich children, but in all actuality...the medicine they are getting is harmful for them.
ReplyDelete