Thursday, 06 September 2007 by brown majic in whatevahs
damn, seems like the youth face more and more problems every generation. If it aint poor education, mass media, war criminals, family issues, than its over-diagnosing of disorders. shit, even saturated marketing from pharmaceutical companies…WACK
In a uniquely American trend, more children than ever are being diagnosed as bipolar, a psychiatric disorder of alternating mania and depression. Between 1994 and 2003 there was a 40-fold rise in diagnosed cases — and a similar jump in prescriptions for anti-psychotic medicine — in children under 19, according to a new study.
The news has fractured the field of child psychiatry. Some doctors argue that there is a new and needed awareness of the disease. Others warn that the disorder can be confused with ADHD, anxiety, and depression, or over-diagnosed due to heavy marketing by drug companies and lower parental tolerance for troubling behavior. (CN)