Dead Wrong: How Psychiatric Drugs Can Kill Your Child Page #7

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I never, I never would have filled

it out on my own son at seven.

Do the parents know that this

is being done in the school?

Are they given, do they

have to give permission

for their child to be screened or

are they automatically being screened?

The way they do it where I live

is really pretty backhanded.

What they do is they come in

and talk to kids in high school.

"So, are you feeling kind of anxious?"

"Have you broken up with a

boyfriend and it's made you sad?"

"Why don't you take this screening and

we'll see what the underlying problem..."

They're teenagers. So the

kids have to bring a form home.

It does have to be signed by

the parents. But the parents say,

"Okay honey, if it would make you

feel better go ahead and have it done."

I had a friend whose

daughter went through this.

This screening gave her a diagnosis.

Now, this is from a computer "check the box"

screening, gave her a diagnosis of depression.

So then she took home a paper,

"Look, Mom and Dad, I'm depressed."

And they said, "No,

you're not depressed."

So then they took her to another doctor who

then "thoroughly" evaluated her and said,

"Oh, she's not depressed, she has ADHD,"

and they put her on medication for ADHD.

And the mom said to me, "But I'm

so glad she had the screening"

"because now we know

she's not depressed."

- They treated it the same way.

- They did treat it the same way, they did.

What they do in my son's school

is they do "pretzel breaks."

They come in... the school

psychologist comes into the classroom

and "We're gonna talk

about how you feel."

And it could be in Science,

it could be in Math,

it could be in any class, so

you have a captive audience.

Your child is just there

and has no ability to say

"I wanna opt out of this," you know.

And then they give out pretzels

to the class and it was like,

"How are you doing? How's

things going at home?"

"Have you ever felt like

killing yourself? Have you ever?"

And all of a sudden they're in

the classrooms in Math and Science.

And that's what I have

found in my school.

And, you know, the bottom line is

it's like they're taking a big net

and they're just gathering up the

children with these "questionnaires."

And then when they get the

kids in there, they drug them.

And that's not the kind of

society we want to build.

I couldn't believe this was

happening, and in our own schools.

From a single ten-minute,

multiple-choice computer test,

they can judge you "at risk" for

suicide and send you to a psychiatrist.

And one well-known study said that 91 percent

of all children going to a child psychiatrist

leave with a prescription.

The only problem is, the psychiatrist

who wrote the questionnaire

for the largest children's mental

health screening program in the country,

has admitted that 84 percent

of the time, the test is wrong.

But by then, the damage is done, as

I learned from educator Cathy Brown.

- Hi Cathy

- Hi Celeste.

- Thank you so much for having me here today.

- Oh, you're very welcome. - Appreciate it.

I don't understand how these young children,

especially that are being put on for ADHD

and bipolar and whatever else

they're being labeled with,

how do these children learn?

How can they function in school?

My observation is that

they just don't. They can't.

Basically, what I see is they can't

concentrate and they, as you said, fall asleep.

They have stomach upsets, they have,

you know, out of the maybe 300

side effects on one of those drugs,

they'll have 4 or 5.

It makes it difficult to study. It makes

it difficult to study if you can't sleep.

It just frightens me and makes me wonder

what's going to happen to the next generation.

What's happening to these children

that are all being drugged right now?

Where's our society going with this?

That is an excellent

observation, because the children

who are active, curious,

interested children

are the ones who are most

likely to act out in school.

The very brightest get bored.

They finish and everybody else

is still working on something

and now they have nothing to do.

So, hmm. They look around, "What

can I do? Who can I talk to?"

Albert Einstein, if he were a child now,

he was extremely bright,

as everybody knows Einstein.

He had difficulties with learning

the way that teachers taught.

His mother took him out of

school and home-schooled him.

Didn't they actually think he

was retarded for a while or?

They did. That's exactly right. If he

were in school now, he would be drugged.

We are taking our brightest

children and drugging them.

I mean, that to me is just, it's

appalling and it's frightening.

- It is.

- When's it, where's it going to stop?

I don't see it stopping unless we do

something about the drugging of these kids.

If somebody had come in from

some other country and said,

"I'd like to have all of your

brightest children please."

"I'd like to put them all on drugs."

"And we'll make it more difficult for

them to learn and we'll make it so that"

"they're not so interested in things"

"and we'll make it so that they have

difficulty sleeping." What would we have said?

No, we would have

said, "Get out of here."

But instead, we're doing it

ourselves. And it's very, very sad.

Well, it's frightening to think what

we have to look forward to right now.

It is. So we just need

to do something about it.

What Cathy told me about

Albert Einstein made me curious.

She was right. Einstein was very

quiet, didn't do well in school

and didn't even speak his own

language fluently until he was nine.

His parents thought there might

be something mentally wrong,

but they didn't do anything to him.

And look how he turned out.

Now we're told that famous people like

Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln,

Sir Isaac Newton, Mozart and

Beethoven had mental disorders.

What if they had been

drugged like Matthew?

Eight million young people are currently

on some type of ADHD medication,

which experts say is chemically

very similar to cocaine,

comes with some pretty scary side

effects, and is very addictive.

Makes you wonder how many geniuses

are being destroyed every day.

This is Matthew's school of

fitness. He's gonna pump me up.

- Run in place.

- Ready?

You want the illustrated version?

- Okay, do some, throw some jabs in there.

- Yah, yah, yah!

When I heard the news of my brother's

death, I couldn't be more shocked.

I was at home, I think

it was a Saturday night.

I was hanging out with a friend.

Friday night is when I found out.

I was on my way back from

vacation when I found out.

The phone rang at

about 4 in the morning.

My roommate waking me up at

5:
30 in the morning on Friday

telling me the police were there.

I didn't believe it. I thought

it was the worst joke ever.

I just didn't believe it. I said,

"That can't be him. It's a mistake."

I said, "Dad, that's, it's

a rumor. That's crazy."

It's... it made me speechless.

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