Millions of Kids Are on ADHD Pills. For Many, It’s the Start of a Drug Cascade.

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Danielle Gansky was 7 years old when an administrator at her upscale private girls’ school in suburban Philadelphia flagged problems with her academic performance. She was a bubbly and creative kid, but she was easily distracted in class and her schoolwork was sloppy.

The school told Gansky’s mother that the girl should see a psychiatrist, who diagnosed her with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, and prescribed a stimulant. Concerned that Danielle might get kicked out if her focus didn’t improve, her mother broke into tears and agreed. But the pills made Gansky agitated, moody and angry. So another doctor put her on Prozac.

More pills followed. Over the years, Gansky was always on two and sometimes three or more psychiatric drugs at once. By her late 20s, she had taken 14 different kinds of psychiatric pills.

None of it ever felt right. The pills dulled her mind and made her irritable or sleepy. But when Gansky complained about the drugs, her doctors would up her dose or try another medication.

“I was living in a body hijacked by the medication,” said Gansky, 29, who is still struggling to wean herself off an antidepressant. “I didn’t have the words or authority to challenge what I was being told.”


And when one of these kids grab a gun and kill...people wonder why
 
volsrocks said:
Danielle Gansky was 7 years old when an administrator at her upscale private girls’ school in suburban Philadelphia flagged problems with her academic performance. She was a bubbly and creative kid, but she was easily distracted in class and her schoolwork was sloppy.

The school told Gansky’s mother that the girl should see a psychiatrist, who diagnosed her with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, and prescribed a stimulant. Concerned that Danielle might get kicked out if her focus didn’t improve, her mother broke into tears and agreed. But the pills made Gansky agitated, moody and angry. So another doctor put her on Prozac.

More pills followed. Over the years, Gansky was always on two and sometimes three or more psychiatric drugs at once. By her late 20s, she had taken 14 different kinds of psychiatric pills.

None of it ever felt right. The pills dulled her mind and made her irritable or sleepy. But when Gansky complained about the drugs, her doctors would up her dose or try another medication.

“I was living in a body hijacked by the medication,” said Gansky, 29, who is still struggling to wean herself off an antidepressant. “I didn’t have the words or authority to challenge what I was being told.”


And when one of these kids grab a gun and kill...people wonder why
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You just gave an evidence that transgenderism is not the cause.
 
A broken clock is right twice a day, stating the obvious as if it's something profound.

Yes drugs are the problem. DUH?
 
Anyways back to the topic, strong evidence that drugs are the problem for the killings, not transgenderism.
 
Jade Dragon said:
What the fuck is the forum's aggrieved racist man-child squealing about now? Asking because you couldn't pay me to take him off ignore.
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He's talking about psychotropic drugs affecting kids. At the end he was asking us to wonder why there were killings. I suggested that it's a strong evidence that transgenderism isn't the cause.
 
This is something i am deeply bothered by.

My best friend and his wife were threatened by their sons grade school to get him on these drugs or he would be expelled. He was hyper active and a distraction in the class room, as was i as a kid. As are many young boys.

Young boys are often like puppies and if you do not give them outlets to burn energy constantly expecting them to sit still and learn and focus is just not going to happen for many and schools have been so changed to 'how young girls learn the best', while the things that benefit boys (intense and rough paly times) have been shut down.

Lucky for my best friend that his parents were rich and they just paid for the family to move to a new district with an All Boys private school.

The school told them his energy was great and they would use it. He was to get to school at least an hour early where they would numerous HIGH INTENSITY activities going, like basketball, hockey, etc. the day was filled with 'fun' extra curricular items to tax the body and brain.

HIs kid became a top hockey goalie (full ride Uni scholarship), a high level piano player (also provided at school), and a very good golfer (walk on to Uni team), and was a straight A student, all because they channeled that energy and did not drug it out of him.

Who knows how he would have developed on the drugs? Maybe he would be A student regardless but i doubt it. Likely a middle pack 'good kid getting ok grades' with everyone thinking the drugs should get credit for that.
 
AProudLefty said:
He's talking about psychotropic drugs affecting kids. At the end he was asking us to wonder why there were killings. I suggested that it's a strong evidence that transgenderism isn't the cause.
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I take a couple of those drugs myself, and have most of my life. So Volssuck is trying to demonize them and attribute them to violence committed? I don't know what transgenderism would ever have to do with these drugs. All they do is help recycle serotonin for the serotonin-deficient.
 
That transgender kids are often labeled/identified with disabilities and will be on the same types of drugs.... The article was
Too long so I just deleted it but you get the basic idea... It's easy to look up....
 
Jade Dragon said:
I take a couple of those drugs myself, and have most of my life. So Volssuck is trying to demonize them and attribute them to violence committed? I don't know what transgenderism would ever have to do with these drugs. All they do is help recycle serotonin for the serotonin-deficient.
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It’s a legit WSJ article asking a question a lot of people ask. I have ADHD and take medication for it, and I’m not offended by people asking whether we overmedicate kids.

Every case is different, so there isn’t a blanket answer, but putting large numbers of children on these drugs isn’t without side effects. And unless I missed it, I didn’t see anything in the article about transgenderism.
 
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It's very likely a combination If the child is transgender... I would say that in our system there are very few "transgender" kids , but the younger ones are all special needs...
 
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