Dead Wrong: How Psychiatric Drugs Can Kill Your Child Page #2

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- You feel guilty.

- I do. I think I'll always feel that way.

You did not let your son down.

You were an honest parent,

honestly seeking help for your

son who was having some trouble.

And if you went to the bookstore,

the books would say the same thing.

The same garbage would be inundated

through all the bookshelves,

so you'd pull one book after

another book, after another book,

and all you would get is "chemical imbalance"

or "neurological disorder" and all this.

And "They need the drugs and the drugs and

therapy, the combination is the way to go."

You would have gotten it from

everywhere you would have looked.

Except the very few scholars around the

nation and the world that are fighting this.

And we're a rare breed. We

read deep into literature.

You're not at fault, Celeste.

I think your attitude

will change. But right now

the prevailing and pervasive

attitude is what you walked into.

It makes me angry.

I feel anger at hearing your story.

Doctor Stein, thank you so much.

- God bless you and I'll help

you any way I can. - Appreciate it.

What Dr. Stein said shocked me.

Why hadn't I heard this before?

Why hadn't anyone told me this?

Was the mental health

industry knowingly lying to me?

And if they had lied to me, surely

I wasn't the only one they lied to.

I found out I was not alone,

there were a lot of other mothers

who had been through similar

experiences and were speaking out.

Meeting these women was an opportunity to

hear about what had happened to their children

and come to terms with what

had happened to Matthew.

Thank you all very much

for being here today.

I think this is... really important

things we have to talk about.

And I've met so many wonderful

people through this ordeal,

for all the wrong reasons and

one heartbreak after another.

So I know there are so many

stories just right here in this room

and I want people to know what this

can do to families and to children.

So thank you for being

here today and helping me.

- Thank you.

- Thank you.

You know, they let you think

that one doesn't matter.

You know, they expect that a certain percentage

are going to suffer these side effects

and that's okay with them.

- One child's dying is too many.

- But it's not okay for me, it's not okay.

- No, no.

- And there's one and there's one

and there's one and then there's a

hundred and then there's a thousand

and then there's ten thousand.

And it's not just one.

And one is too many but

it just goes on and on.

When I took Matthew to the doctor, he

was diagnosed with a clinical depression.

And they said it was because

of a chemical imbalance.

What happened to you

when you took Candace?

We took Candace because she was

exhibiting anxiety at school.

She had started blocking on tests.

And I had a couple of teachers say,

"You know, Candace needs

to study for these tests,"

when I would know that she had

'cause I used to study with her

and she'd always make

note cards and everything.

But she would get to the test and she would

freeze or else her writing was so horrific

that she might have had the right

answer but the teacher couldn't read it,

so she'd get it wrong anyway.

And I took Candace to a highly

recommended child psychiatrist

and he talked to her for

about 15 minutes and said,

"Well, she has a generalized

anxiety disorder."

The only way that this anxiety was

manifesting itself was in tests.

There were no other areas of anxiety.

They're not telling you that it's entirely

psychologically based and subjective.

They're just saying, "Oh, well, based on

these symptoms you have a chemical imbalance."

And then with a chemical imbalance it's

like, where did they come up with that?

What chemicals? I love that. Like,

where's the test? Don't we get a test?

Where are the tests and... You can draw

somebody's blood and see if they have cancer.

You can... those are

real medical diagnoses.

If somebody tells you that your child

has ADHD, ask them to draw their blood

and show you the chemical

imbalance causing this.

And they can't do it because they haven't proven

the chemical imbalance that's causing this.

It's completely arbitrary and

subjective and it is their opinion

that that's what's going on with your

child who you are actually the expert on.

They always hide behind that... I say "they,"

the psychiatrists and the psychologists.

They always hide behind "We're doing

this in the best interests of your child,"

and that's really hard

to get around as a mom.

You're out there and you're like, I want

to do what's in the best interest of my kid.

- Of course, they're

playing on the guilt again. - Yeah!

"If you loved your child you'd

drug them for their own well-being."

And you want to do what is right for

your child so you bow to the pressure

because you think that they know

because they have an educational history.

They've gone to college,

they're more powerful, they know.

You know your child better

than anybody. Tune 'em out.

You do what your heart tells

you. You don't listen to 'em.

These women were strong, knowledgeable

and determined to spread the word

that what had happened to their

children could happen to anyone's.

Because when it comes to diagnosing

kids with psychiatric disorders,

no one really knows what they're doing,

as a group of high

school students found out

when they interviewed psychiatrists

at a recent psychiatric convention.

Matthew's doctor never informed me about

the unscientific nature of her diagnosis

or the serious possible consequences of

taking the psychiatric drugs to treat it.

So I went to see the well-known

physician and author Dr. Doris Rapp

to find out what I

should have been told.

My son was put on the drug Lexapro

and we were told that the side effects were

very benign:
headache, dry mouth, nausea.

What serious side effects

should I have been warned of?

Well, drugs such as that

can cause depression,

it can cause dizziness, and

there are many isolated reports

of almost any area of the

body being affected by those.

These are the ones that cause the

depression, the suicidal thoughts,

the heart disease,

the metabolic defects.

And I think that obviously lung

function and cardiac function

need to be monitored on children

if they are finding enlarged hearts

and the children are having

heart attacks and strokes

and increased blood pressure

and irregular heartbeats.

And it was found that many times when you

stop these drugs the symptoms don't disappear.

You think the shaking is gonna

go away. It may not go away.

And there's nothing more

devastating to a young child

than to twitch and have these jerks

in their body that they can't control.

You should have been told to watch

for any change in how your son feels or

acts or behaves, any

change in his appetite.

- Is he dizzy, does he have

problems with his coordination? - Right.

- Did they tell you to contact them

if there was any change? - No.

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