Comments on: After 7-Year-Old Gabriel Myers' Suicide, Fla. Bill Looks to Tighten Access to Psychiatric Drugs
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- Quite frankly, I'm <a href="http://www.davescarpentryandmore.com">floor</a>ed. Why was any child under the age of 12 given any sort of psychoactive drug? That's disgusting, someone that young should never be exposed to such powerful chemicals. Therapy is one thing, but this?
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- My cousin committed suicide at only 12. My close friend had a 5 year old cousin, a boy, who committed suicide and was on these drugs. It happens soo much more than you hear about. I'm glad it's finally getting some media attention. Children know what misery is, and they can feel it just as well as any adult. They know what death is--and they know how to end their own lives. Kids aren't stupid, and when these drugs force them to feel like life is not worth living, you can bet they won't have the maturity that adults have to resist the urge to kill themselves and seek help.
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- Drugs, at best, are only a partial answer. Mental Illness also has a stress component. Some people have a higher chance of becoming mentally ill than others ? These people normally become mentally ill when they have been under high levels of stress (Helping People with Mental Illness A Mental Health Training Programme for Community Health Workers from: David Richards, Tim Bradshaw, Hilary Mairs; The University of Manchester, UK. November 2003.+ many other studies dating back to at least 1959) all too often doctors prescribe medications when parents or other care givers want relief from the results of sometimes poor ability to deal with their own stress. Before children are given drugs, better methods to deal with stress, including cognitive therapy and watching the video series How to Deal with Difficult People, should be given to the parents or caregivers.
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- Does a seven year old even know what "suicide" is? if he didnt know, then how (and why) did he kill himself? "Sen. Ronda Storms said prescribed drugs have replaced talk therapy and are over-prescribed to subdue unruly children," is somthing stated in this article. Drugs shouldnt replace talk therapy because we are going to have more seven year olds supposivly commiting suicide!
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- Well we let the pharmaceutical corporations buy and run the government for their own profit. They could care less about human life or health. It is all about making profit, bottom line. How could we be so blind and stupid? And will we continue to let them get away with murder?
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- This has got to be one of the saddest news reports ever.
Parents:
Think long and hard before allowing a child psychiatrist to medicate your kid. - Reply to this comment
- by taxchurches March 18, 2010 9:03 AM EDT
This is bogus. 7 year olds to not commit suicide.
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Maybe not in your generation, but times have changed.
Seven year olds in our time take psychotropic drug cocktails and are exposed to more sex and violence than ever before. - Reply to this comment
- So, the legal drug dealers called doctors are going to get a big guarantee from our government because they save lives. Excuse ME? Thought the first rule of medicine is to "Do no Harm". The hands off approach just doesn't seem to work so well. Doctors made my mother a prescription drug addict. These are not my favorite people. Doctors kill more people legally than Soldiers and get by with it. What a confused world we live in when 7 year old children hang themselves. This is clear manslaughter by the doctor.
This is one MD in need of a daily striped uniform.
The little man with the name of an Arch Angel is more than a sad story. This is a wake up call to health care ledgislation. The god syndrome is alive and well in hospitals and clinics across the country. Point being is the doctors do not know what the drugs are going to do nor have any idea of possible negative reactions. Could we please have manditory drug testing of all doctors Please. They must be drugged or stoned or drunk. Remember Hospitals are where people go to die, not to heal. - Reply to this comment
- I don't trust those drugs anyway and then to hear a child killed themselves because of them? Very tragic. If you ask me, we a society reach for drugs (both prescription and street) all too quickly instead of finding other ways to deal with problem. That child needed hugs, not drugs!
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- This is bogus. 7 year olds to not commit suicide. 7 year-olds don't even know what death is, not to mention true despair. If this kid hung himself, it was an accident during play.
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