Dead Wrong: How Psychiatric Drugs Can Kill Your Child Page #10

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grandparents would have used.

That is exactly true because

that's what I did with my son,

started putting a lot of vitamins,

all the B vitamins and nothing else,

no medication, nothing. And he

healed so fast, unbelievable.

Well, that's another thing,

you know, we need to look at

blood tests, we need to check for,

like you said, medical reasons first.

We need to look at what alternatives

we can use and not go with medication.

There's so many things we can do.

We've brought up so many points here,

none of them involving medication.

- Matthew's got the ball.

- Go get Annie!

He's gonna take him to the

hole! He's gonna smoke him!

Yayyy! And the crowd goes wild!

And little Steub buries

his brother! 22-20!

He was my little brother.

I remember the day that he became,

not so much cooler, but just my equal.

Like, I remember the day where,

everything flows downhill,

you start beating up your little

brother, but I remember the day

that he actually looked

at me and said, "No more."

And we started looking

at each other as equals.

"You want to go on vacation?"

"You want to do this together,

you want to do that together?"

And just... and he started

becoming my best friend.

And he shouldn't have been, he

shouldn't have been so on these pills

that it just, it... him up.

I mean, like one day he's way happy and then

the next day he's just way out of his mind, sad.

And I'm just, "What's

wrong, man? What's going on?"

And he's just, one

day we're best friends

and the next day he just doesn't

even know who he is anymore.

I... I didn't know what to do

so I'd just leave him alone.

I tell him all the

time I just, I miss him.

I miss him. I wish he was here. I wish

we didn't have to do this... for him.

Like this sucks, man.

I don't like it. I don't like it.

I don't like what it's made me.

I don't like what it's made my

family. It's, it's destroyed us, man.

Like in a, in a sense it's

grown us tighter as a family,

but in a sense it's

just... everything up, man.

It's just ruined everything. Oh...

...Oh, hi sweetheart. You doing okay?

Oh, thank you. - Big guy!

- Thank you!

- Thank you.

Every April 25th we get together

to celebrate Matthew's birthday.

We make a cake, share fond memories

and remind ourselves of how

lucky we are to have known him.

We love him, we miss him and we

are so grateful for all of you

who have supported us through this.

You could say it's our way of healing.

But the pain never really goes away.

Of course, we aren't the only ones.

There are all the brave women I

had met who continue to speak out

in spite of the emotional

hurt it must bring them.

They were all so moving.

Sheila, who fought her entire school district

for the right to leave her child unmedicated.

Irma, who got her son out

of a psychiatric hospital,

where he was involuntarily incarcerated

after a mix-up of medications

gave him hallucinations.

Mathy, whose daughter killed

herself while on psychiatric drugs

given to her only because

she was nervous before tests.

Vicky, whose poor, sweet

little girl died in her arms.

Amy, whose violent drug reaction toward

her own baby should frighten any new mom.

Christian, who was assured she could

take psychiatric drugs while pregnant

and whose baby, Indiana,

paid the ultimate price.

Karen, bringing her foster children back

from the depths of psychiatric drug toxicity.

And of course, my daughter Annie,

Matthew's sister and best friend,

without whom I couldn't have

made it through this process.

These are my friends.

And if there's one lesson I have

learned from them, it's that as parents,

we are the last line of

defense for our children.

Because when something goes wrong,

the mental health professionals

are never around to pick up the pieces.

Our children need us and yet, in a strange

sort of way, we need them even more.

All of us have one thing in common

and that's that we love our children.

What's so great about your kids?

What do you love about them the most?

I love that they're unconditional.

They unconditionally love.

Doesn't matter if I have

a bad day or a good day,

they're always there to make

me, make everything better.

They're so innocent. They come to

you. They hug you, they kiss you,

no matter what's going

on around the world.

And as a parent, you know, that's the

most beautiful thing we can receive,

a hug from our children.

I think they're

trusting. They trust you.

They're innocent.

And they, they think you

hung the moon, I don't know.

Until some day it turns around and you

know it's actually they that hung the moon.

My niece and my nephews are the most fun

and they, it's like they make you feel

alive more than you feel on your own,

more than you feel when

you're with a bunch of adults.

They bring out the kid

in you all over again

and you can laugh with

kids and have fun with kids.

I like how they're never

worried about anything.

They're just always

laughing and playing and...

Wait till they get a little bit older

because I don't know how many times I've

said to Caroline, "Honey, just breathe."

My kids are my reason for living

and I thank God every day for Caroline

because she was the driving

force to help me move forward

and for teaching me to be strong

because if I needed Caroline to be strong I

had to be that example of strength for her.

That's the way with my sons too. They

gave me the strength to be a better person,

be a better parent and to,

you know, just the smiles...

I mean I think our children come and

they have lessons to teach us and I don't,

I'm so, I'm such a different

person now than I was before.

They teach us a lot of good

values in life, they really do.

I kept thinking back to my children, and

what the other mothers had said about theirs,

their smiles, their imagination and

creativity, and their boundless energy.

My name is Tyler

Milford and I am eleven.

My age? Is eight.

I'm seven years old, actually

just make that seven and a half.

I'm eight years old and I want to

be a chef at a five-star restaurant.

I'm going to be an orthopedic surgeon.

When I grow up I want to be a geologist.

I would like to become a

professional basketball player.

Professional clothes designer.

I want to be a musician.

An actress.

A director.

A teacher.

Dancer and a singer.

I'd go for speed skating if I

wanted to, I'm really good.

I just want to keep practicing and

practicing until I know I'm perfect at it

and then do something big.

Yes, I plan to get an Oscar.

I was hoping that it would be like the

funnest thing that I would do in my life.

Losing a child is the worst thing

that could ever happen to a parent.

Children are not just another

market segment for psychiatry.

They need protection, they

need guidance, they need love.

They don't need psychiatric drugs.

And I'm going to tell that

to as many people as I can.

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