I want to summarize what I said about the drugs they give to people
Basically, many of the BIpolar disorder drugs are more serious drugs remarketed.
others, such as Lithium, are very bad for your liver
the ADD drugs are stimulants or amphetamines
both of these disorders are pretty easy to get!
unless you are very hyperactive or seem to have the disorder that probably bipolar disorder was originally describing,
a severe chemical imbalance, be extremely wary of these drugs.
they are drugs and have long term very bad side effects.
most people on these drugs do not need them.
most people, look at the Time magazine advertisement
with mood swings, or who can't focus on boring homework, are not in need of amphetamines or atypical antipsychotics!
another friends grandmother, her grandfather called in the shrink when she started to show signs of menopause.
it took far too long and quite a few doctors to work through it.
teenage hormones are no joke
hormones in general are not
poor teenagers are going through a lot of fun changes
perhaps more needs to be looked into in this department
rather then declaring them crazy for mood swings
Chemical depression is different from depression caused by something bad happening.
I know, I've had bad things happen, and I have spent time/ lived with those who are chemically depressed
They are different things
I think maybe serious bad experiences could kick in a kind of chemical depression, but chemically depressed people have a different chemical problem.
Just like a person with diabetes or something,
they feel sick and do not deserve to be abused!
After living with anorexics for a long time,
I think they have control issues?
This could be a generalization
but it seemed to me that they felt powerless a lot
and that anorexia gave them a feeling of power and being in control
of course then they lost control over that too
There were a lot of feelings of inadequacy I saw as well
not being good enough to make mom or dad stay, or stay together
not being pretty enough, we are never ever pretty enough
how could we be?
not being made out of plastic and airbrushed
and even if you are one of the few like some idealized woman
you are still never perfect and it still doesn't mean the person/people you care about will care about you as much as you want or need them too
husbands/ boyfriends still are not faithful and such
pretty girls get far to much attention sometimes too
I think a lot of them felt inadequate in relation too school as well couldn't do well enough.
not to pick on our over pressurized school system
but I lived with these girls and not being successful enough in school was a big part of it.
Again teens are over pressurized
the school system needs to lay off them and actually teach them
no offense but a lot of the kids I go to school with are ignorant as all get go,
yet some how they just put in the daily grind hours to get through the busy work and not offend the multitude of strange adults you have to deal with
these kids seem to all dress alike?
I had one explain the necessity of blending to me, in most survival of the fittest Machiavellian terms.
she was very smart really, although she hadn't the faintest idea what the Ottoman empire was, or Machiavelli for that matter?
it's nice to know what we teach our kids in school these days
teens deal with a lot of other issues
sexual advances, drinking, sexual harassment, bullying
I have a high IQ and always did well on tests
but I found the pressure to keep up with the daily hours of homework too much
especially on top of parents fighting and such
In sixth grade I had a few HOURS of homework every night
and if I didn't do all of it my teachers would call my mother
who would become very abusive in relation to it
I went to a difficult private school
but between the constant fighting of my parents and the pressure to be perfect/do well in school
it makes you feel horrible
especially if you really almost can't do as well as they require of you
in sixth grade, with my crazy family,
I did not have the homework skills to keep up
and no one was helping me with it.
I think if someone had sat down with me often and said
"what do you have to do tonight?"
"see here, it looks overwhelming, but if you just start here you will get it done."
Instead I just felt horribly overwhelmed and as if I couldn't do it.
This feeling took me years to overcome
even though I score high on standardized tests and such
I think this feeling of being unable to control your life and being inadequate and abused at such a young age, leads to anorexia.
Most of the anorexics, I remember had that combination,
Of high stress family problems and either problems in school or feeling inadequate in school
I think the situation I described leads to drug use and sexual abuse as well
I know the pressure in school, in middle school, for Christ’s sake, was enormous
I love to read,
I am pretty self educated and I do great in college now
I don’t think there was any reason to be beating me up over grades and making me feel horrible about myself in middle school
Anorexia is either too much pressure, where the child feels bad about themselves and like they can’t control their life.
This is what I saw in the anorexics and in my own flirtations with it
Again my kids, I might take in strays too, if I have time and money, maybe the state will pay me
I’m buying a New England farm house near the Canadian border with a moat and a few great danes, and they are going to be home schooled
No horrific sexual harassment everyday, only books, a good math tutor, plenty of outside time and maybe some horses.
I’ll stick a micro chip in their shoe and let the Great Danes baby sit as teenagers,
Great Danes are really nice dogs, very wimpy and sweet for their enormous size
My kids are going to know what the Ottoman empire was and they are not going to be chewing their own foot off in a cage because their lives are poisonous too them.
