Child’s Ordeal Shows Risks of Psychosis Drugs for Young

[Limpet_Chicken]

Its shocking to see D2 blockers being used on a kid that age, autie or not.

Although here in the UK they seem to be a recognized 'treatment' for autism (read 'we don't like the way you don't speak, the way you line your toys up and enjoy that better than cooperative play with peers of your own age, we don't like that you cannot cope with the bright lights which give your six year old self horrendous sensory pain and make you scream from dawn until dark because we do not realise it is the household lighting which MAKES you want to cry'), autism isn't psychosis, and those with it are sane, disregarding any other complicating issues such as comorbid schizophrenia, stimulant psychosis etc.

I have known risperdal given out to somebody who was at the time , around 14-15 to make him sleep after his daytime use of ritalin for ADHD/ADD, doctors seem to be far too willing to use this sort of drug on non-psychotic patients.

I'm autistic myself, and I would say I am fairly bright, the overwhelming majority of relationships I have ever had, have been with women who were either AS, HFA or classically autistic, and they have all been intelligent, caring people, who when one takes the time and effort to get into their heads, so to speak, reveal their apparent processes of thought to be lively and as normal as any other, not psychosis needing medication, and some of these people had meltdowns, sometimes quite dramatic, when pushed beyond the limits of sensory input or sudden changes in routine that they were capable of tolerating.

People need to learn, that is normal for us, and whilst medication for those incidents is sometimes needed, antipsychotics are not it.
Especially daily, they are known to have the potential for some awful side effects, completely killing mood/motivation, blunting affect, tardive dyskinesia that may never resolve, rare but real prospect of neuroleptic malignant syndrome....need I go on.

I live with a lass who sometimes goes catatonic, waxy posturing, nonverbal, immobile sensory blackout periods, in response to situations that are impossible to withstand, but on antipsychotics I am absolutely positive she would still have the same sensory issues and be tormented the same if they occurred, but just be unable to respond to them or have others do so.

 

[affasd]

autism and adhd are way to over diagnosed, I have only known one kid who was actually autistic a friend's little brother and it was very obvious. Basically he was what most people would call very weird but also learning disabled in a lot areas but there were certain things he was very good at like his memory was incredible, he could memorize lyrics to a song he has only heard 1 and other things I only met him a couple times so I don't really know everything about it but basically it was very obvious something was different, but now every socially awkward person is autistic or has "aspergers". And 90% of kids have ADD/ADHD. Again with that it is very obvious a good friend was actually adhd and he was completely insane without his adderall, he wouldn't be able to function at all and the adderall chilled him out enough to function. But now every other person has an addy script cause they "can't concentrate" yet all it does is jack them up so they can crank out homework.

 

[pofacedhoe]

Again with that it is very obvious a good friend was actually adhd and he was completely insane without his adderall, he wouldn't be able to function at all and the adderall chilled him out enough to function. But now every other person has an addy script cause they "can't concentrate" yet all it does is jack them up so they can crank out homework.

the amount of people on bluelight that claim they need amphetamines to get stuff done and call it adhd, its just fucking laziness. come to terms with it and accept your personality traits.

i drink coca tea (cocaine drink) and it makes me get things done and hold my temper in but i dont use it all the time. i find it usefull and it makes concentrating possible for periods longer than five minutes. i probably do have adhd but i dont change that much when i have coca tea, i simply get some things finished and find driving easier. its no miracle and i could live without it. its a tool for ease of access to efficiency, NOT a drug i NEED

 

[narco anonomous]

autism and adhd are way to over diagnosed, I have only known one kid who was actually autistic a friend's little brother and it was very obvious. Basically he was what most people would call very weird but also learning disabled in a lot areas but there were certain things he was very good at like his memory was incredible, he could memorize lyrics to a song he has only heard 1 and other things I only met him a couple times so I don't really know everything about it but basically it was very obvious something was different, but now every socially awkward person is autistic or has "aspergers". And 90% of kids have ADD/ADHD. Again with that it is very obvious a good friend was actually adhd and he was completely insane without his adderall, he wouldn't be able to function at all and the adderall chilled him out enough to function. But now every other person has an addy script cause they "can't concentrate" yet all it does is jack them up so they can crank out homework.

Everyone alert the media despite only being diagnosed in one in a thousand people in the general population, some guy thinks that autism is over diagnosed! Ok so you say you've only known one person who was "actually autistic", then you describe Kim "rain man" Peek as if anyone who doesn't resemble this person, isn't autistic. Completely lacking any scientific credentials to make diagnosis of any kind, whether credentials be in the form of degrees or just general intelligence, you clearly have neither, it is almost as if you have devised your criteria for diagnosing autism on a movie character.

Then you diagnose the pretend people with autism as having ADD/ADHD, which you said in a previous sentence was over diagnosed. Further you place quotations marks around aspergers syndrome because I'm presuming you don't think that condition has anything to do with autism, or it isn't a separate condition it is just ADD by another name... because autism couldn't possibly be a spectrum, it isn't possible that it is a genetic disorder with everything from the severely disabled to people who only posses a few characteristics not enough to diagnose anything, but enough to posit that these people possibly posses a broad autism phenotype thus explaining the large number with autistic children. No, just rain man, and those with ADHD. Atleast thats what your ground breaking research suggests... HA. haha. hahahahhahaahahahaaaagh!

I know quite a bit about autism, and you know nothing about it. In fact I imagine there is quite a bit you know nothing about. So until you can learn to be humble, realize that no matter how much you learn, you really no nothing, there is always room for epistemic questioning, for every induction a leap of faith is required, and that always there is room for doubt, in conclusion that you know nothing, which you do, until you realize this just keep your mouth shut. Enjoy the new asshole I just ripped you troglodyte.

 

[narco anonomous]

the amount of people on bluelight that claim they need amphetamines to get stuff done and call it adhd, its just fucking laziness. come to terms with it and accept your personality traits.

i drink coca tea (cocaine drink) and it makes me get things done and hold my temper in but i dont use it all the time. i find it usefull and it makes concentrating possible for periods longer than five minutes. i probably do have adhd but i dont change that much when i have coca tea, i simply get some things finished and find driving easier. its no miracle and i could live without it. its a tool for ease of access to efficiency, NOT a drug i NEED

"Imaginary friend sometimes reffered to as God" this thread is filled with hypocrites. So you say that people should accept their personality traits instead of taking drugs to counterbalance their deficits. Then you describe how you drink cocaine, to get things done, but you're different because you employ moderation. Then you say you probably have add, but your cocaine drink doesn't do anything other than allow you to get some things done, and make driving(concentrating) easier. Finally it is NOT A DRUG YOU NEED. Subtext: therefor others don't need them, and shouldn't take them.


Congratulations, it's clearly not something people need, such as insulin. Although I have no problem with someone saying "I need this to maintain the life routine I have built for myself on it, which I otherwise would not have been able to build". It has only been in known existence for about a century so clearly people got on with out it. If by need you mean survive than you are correct, but you really aren't in any position to decide whether someone derives benefit from this kind of medication. Now I don't like the idea of kids getting dopaminergic drugs because it is quite possible they will incur damage to striatal dopamine receptors, but if the benefits outweigh the side effects in adults than what objection could you possibly have. Or do you think people only have the right to do drugs if they absolutely need them? If so then you're in the wrong website.

Again what goes for the person who's post you responded to goes for you, what do you know about medicine, or any of the sciences related to mentation? It's rhetorical because the answer is obviously nothing, and not because you don't agree with me, rather because of the way you support your opinions, which is what they are, just like assholes everyone has them and only 1% are worth looking at.

 

[crunchymilk]

I forgot where I got this, might have been from a documentary, but doctors get paid by the drug industry to diagnose more kids with ADHD so they can use their drugs on them.. I wish I could remember the name..