There are 8,000,000 U.S. children under the age of 17 that take psychiatric medications— 9 Omaha’s or 1 New York City!!
What happened to us?
Fact:
Psych meds for the large majority of us should be used as a secondary and temporary helper while we get other primary help. Implied here and in the introductory statistics – it does not TREAT it. 57 million adults and children on psychiatric medications and growing indicates non-treatment!
- A lot of medical and mental health professionals don’t know this or believe this – professional problem.
- A lot of the pharmaceutical companies do not want us to believe this – nasty problem.
Listen to their funny commercials where the talking person talks real fast about the crazy side effects like homicide, suicide, and heart attacks and they play soft auditory music and they show us warm and relaxing visuals around water and beaches with the people holding hands, smiling, providing HOPE. Go get informed please!
Research side effects of medications you are on or your children.
- Almost all insurance companies pay for psychiatric medications – a contributor.
- A lot of the time we are not told this by prescribing doctors and psychiatrists – professional problem.
- Sometimes the meds do so well that we just decide to keep them on full time – personal decision.
- Sometimes we seek other help and find the other helper isn’t good enough to get the root problem to go away, so we have to stay on them – professional problem.
- Sometimes we believe using the medications is less financially less costly – personal info problem.
- Sometimes there aren’t any trained support groups to treat root causes – professional problem.
- Sometimes church leaders don’t want to train group leaders – professional problem.
- Sometimes we don’t want to do the work it takes to treat the root cause – personal pride problem.
- Sometimes it costs out of our pockets too much immediately to treat the root cause – financing problem
Your life problems will not be treated with medications evidenced by increasing crazy numbers. If they treated we would see reductions over time but we are not – 49 million adults – 100 Omahas!!!!
It is supported by your insurance which makes it seem less costly but budget it for 10 years minimum. Small payments over time added up is not less costly.
Meds can provide a quick help but not without other physiological, emotional, and relational problems which by the way are called SIDE EFFECTS instead of ADDITIONAL COSTS TO YOU!
There are treatments to root causes of depression, anxiety, attention deficits, migraines, sleep disorders, and more that TREAT, end your payments and end your medications!!!
Seek it, demand it for you and your children, you will find it and you will enjoy it.
More to come …..
Scott Carlson
LMHP
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