Dead Wrong: How Psychiatric Drugs Can Kill Your Child Page #3

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- Did they, they didn't give you a sheet

with side effects? - No. There was no sheet.

You should have received a sheet that said

these are the things you might look for

and if you notice any of these,

but I think most people would be scared silly

because it might be a whole page of side effects

and you might not even know the

terms. But you get out a dictionary...

- Or it's in print that's so small

you can't even... - That's right.

You get a magnifying glass.

And I say that you shouldn't

have to be the doctor

but in today's day and

age with so much going on

...that shouldn't be happening...

- I've learned that the hard way.

...I'd say parents, go check on

what your children are taking.

Don't assume that it's

normal to have a reaction.

If you're seeing one, call your doctor

up and complain. Get a second opinion.

But you've got to, you've

got to cover yourself

in every way that you can

possibly cover yourself.

I think you can't drug healthy bodies

and make them unhealthy in so many ways

and expect those

individuals to grow up to be

functional, creative

persons in the society.

They simply won't be able

to reach their full potential

because the drugs change them.

- It wasn't worth the risk.

- I think that what is going on is a sin.

God must be standing up there saying,

"What are you doing down there?"

"What are you doing?"

- I agree. Thank you so much.

- You're gonna make me cry.

Thank you very much.

These are, these are dangerous

drugs that don't cure anything

and the diagnosis of ADHD is,

it's just epidemic right now.

It's so easy to do, to

label a child that way

and then that label follows your

child all the way through life.

Well, Shaina was diagnosed

as early as first grade.

So the school psychologist sent

us a letter and stated that Shaina

had all the characteristics of

ADHD and needed to go to a doctor.

So I took the letter from

the school psychologist

to the psychiatrist with me,

45 minutes later walked out

with a definite diagnosis of

ADHD and a prescription in hand.

They judged her whole entire

life on that subjective checklist

and put her on drugs right away.

Progressively she would revert back

to where she'd fidget in her seat

and the school would call and say,

"Shaina's not paying attention

again, she's out of her seat."

- Up the dose.

- Up the dose, up the dose.

February 26th 2001, I

received a phone call

from the school nurse

at exactly ten o'clock

and said Shaina had taken

a fall in the library

and immediately went

to school to get her.

Took her to the doctor. I was

only a few feet away from her,

signed her name on a

clipboard. I turned back

and she's having a grand mal seizure.

I picked her up in my arms and I screamed

for the doctor and the doctor said,

"Vicky, lay her on the floor."

I immediately laid her on the floor

but I kept her head right here and

I kept massaging her head and said,

"Mommy's right here, Sissie,"

"I'm not gonna leave you."

And I looked into her deep brown eyes

and the last vision I

see was my daughter dying

and there was nothing that

I could do to help her.

And I didn't know at the time,

does she know I didn't know?

Did she know that I couldn't help her?

What was going through her mind

while I'm watching her die?

And I have no idea, the

answers will never be there.

But I keep looking back and thinking,

I did what was best,

what I thought was best at the time,

even though it turned out to be deadly.

And I buried my child. I'm not to blame.

A week before Shaina died

I took her with agitation, low

urinary output and weight gain,

which were three red signs.

And I took them to the psychiatrist

and I said, "This is what's happening."

And he told me that I was an

overprotective, paranoid mother

and what I was seeing

were not side effects.

And I look back now and that whole

week she was dying and we didn't know.

And they told us that even if they

would have done something different

we still couldn't have saved her.

She had too much in her system

and she was dying little by little.

So when, when I say even if

you would have noticed anything,

they wouldn't have paid attention.

They chose just to ignore me.

The psychiatrist, the

pharmaceutical industry,

they're the people that I need to blame

and hold accountable for what happened.

And I look at it now and I just wish

I could turn back the hands of time

and never put her on the medication,

never believed in the professionals,

did everything in my life differently.

But I can't do that.

All I can do is go forth

now and talk to people,

express the concern,

reach my hand out and touch every

life and hope it makes a difference.

I had no idea that psychiatric drugs

could create so many horrible

side effects in so many people.

An estimated 42,000 deaths every year,

whether by homicide, suicide or

overdose, are linked to psychiatric drugs.

There was one thing I just

didn't understand, though.

How could a drug, especially

one that was supposed to help,

cause a person to take the extreme step

of deciding to kill himself or others?

Matthew would never

have taken his own life.

It must have been the drug. But how?

I asked this of Pamela Seefeld,

a pharmacist and an expert

on the adverse effects of

psychiatric drugs on the human body.

It's very nice to meet you. Thank you for

having, taking the time to speak with me.

My son was only on the one but he started

off at one dose and did not do well.

And it was after that that his

demeanor really started to change.

He became very anxious, very withdrawn,

more withdrawn than he had been,

because at least before that

he was still talking to us.

And within nine weeks of starting

the medication Matthew was, was gone.

The symptoms that you're describing,

the description of these symptoms,

it's very classic of drug-induced

psychosis because he couldn't metabolize.

You have to understand it wasn't

his depression that got him;

it was the medicine at a toxic level

in his brain that made him psychotic

and that's what it comes down to.

I'm telling you the drug metabolism

issues are killing a lot of people.

If they're only offering you

medicines and the medicines have this

possibility of causing psychosis,

that's what's really happening.

The person's drug level

gets toxic in the brain.

These medicines like Lexapro, Paxil,

Zoloft, they have to work in the brain.

That's what they do, they

pass through the brain

and they work on those

receptors in the brain.

If you think about it,

if you have a normal dose of a drug

and people don't do really well with it,

if the increase in the

concentration is five times,

think about what that

does to the person.

Five times the normal

amount of drug in the brain.

People always become psychotic on it

and they call it

drug-induced psychosis.

Well, I feel very strongly

that's what happened to my son.

I'm sure of it.

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