Dead Wrong: How Psychiatric Drugs Can Kill Your Child Page #8

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It was one of the worst days of my life.

I never imagined Matt

would commit suicide.

He did not want to end his life.

He loved life, he had a good life.

We all knew Matthew

wasn't capable of this.

A boy doesn't smile like

that for 17, 1/2 years

and then 6 months later go

and do this without any help.

In just these past few months,

I have found that we are

in the middle of an epidemic

of the psychiatric

drugging of our children.

Across the world, there are 20 million

children on some type of psychiatric drug,

20 million!

And as shocking as it might seem,

psychiatrists at a recent conference

even admitted that they are diagnosing

children at younger and younger ages.

It's disgusting that anyone would even

think of giving a mind-altering drug

to a young child with

a developing brain.

But what about the children

drugged before they are even born?

Another way that we're being

drugged is through pregnant women.

If they were to go in and have any

type of problem with their mood -

as if any pregnant woman doesn't -

they're putting them on

these drugs. And Christian,

...you've had firsthand experience with this

and a terrible tragedy as well. - Right.

I'd been on antidepressants

for eight years

and so I have had two

pregnancies on antidepressants.

And so when Indi, when we

wanted to get pregnant with Indi,

I asked my new physician

if that is something that

he recommends is that I'd get back onto

Zoloft, because I was on, on Effexor.

In fact, I was on 300

mgs of the XR every day.

And he recommended that I stay on

it, that there was no testing to show

that there was any problem, that it doesn't

get to the baby, that I would be fine.

And so I took that as you know what you're

talking about and I decided to stay on it.

And then went into

labor two months early.

They stopped the labor.

The doctor came over and said, and

was shocked that my OB hadn't said

that Effexor was

dangerous during pregnancy

and that he had immediately called down

to the NICU [Neonatal Intensive Care Unit]

and said that we have an Effexor baby

and to be ready. And they were there...

That must have terrified you.

It did terrify me because I didn't know

what we were up against at this point

but it was too late, you know, that was,

it was too late, we were, it was happening.

And so when she was born she

wasn't breathing and she wasn't...

she wasn't responding to anything.

And at that point, when they

finally did get her to come around

it was almost like that part of

the damage that I had done was over,

that it was okay, "Oh my gosh, she's

safe, she's okay, she's breathing."

And no doctor told me that

through the breast milk

could she be getting any

kind of the medication.

We were in and out of the hospital because

she had severe problems with jaundice.

She had severe problems with vomiting,

she was lethargic and she would

eat maybe five to ten minutes

and then fall completely asleep,

to the point where we would have to

joggle her over and over and over again

just to get her to be coherent

enough to eat again or want to eat.

She wasn't gaining weight.

We came up... well, the pediatrician

wanted to put her on medication.

And... I told them no

because she was a baby,

and the whole time I was giving her

medication through the breast milk and,

and okay with that. I just...

She didn't even have a voice. She

couldn't tell me that anything was wrong.

You know, I should have seen,

I should have seen and I should have

put it together but I didn't. I didn't.

That was the role of the professionals.

The doctors, and there

were plenty of them around

to be able to tell you that

this could affect your baby.

Well, and you think about it,

you don't drink, you don't smoke,

you don't drink caffeine, you watch

what you, you take good vitamins,

why would you drug yourself?

It goes right to the baby.

And that just didn't...

They call it a medicine so it seems

like a good thing you're supposed to,

it's going to do

nothing but good for you,

and that's not what it does.

It's as bad as all those

other things or worse.

Well, that's what I've

said to my, to some people,

is what's the difference between going

to the guy on the corner selling heroin

and going to my doctor because

it's gonna do the same thing.

I did the same thing. I breastfed

for four months on Zoloft

and the whole time they told me it was safe and

the only problem was, "Watch out for sedation."

But they never said, "Because

sedation could kill your baby."

"Your baby might not ever wake up."

No child should be lost that way

and especially with breast milk,

mixing all these drugs in it, is

just a recipe for death, it really is.

If you think about it, you

wouldn't go to the store

and buy a bottle or can of formula that

says, "With Zoloft. Give this to your baby."

Yeah, so I think of, and what

I think of is all those babies

that have been, you know, claimed

SIDS [Sudden Infant Death Syndrome],

how many of those mothers have been on

medications and just don't know any better.

I know they're out there.

Of course they are. Of course they are.

And there'll be more, there'll be

a lot more unless they are informed.

It's hard to think of a

story sadder than Christian's.

And what's even more outrageous

is that pregnant women are increasingly

being targeted by screening campaigns

that can get them

onto psychiatric drugs.

One in six pregnant women today is

diagnosed with a depressive disorder

and most are put on antidepressants, which

means over half a million babies every year,

born and unborn, are

exposed to chemical toxins.

And now psychiatric researchers

are trying ultrasound

to supposedly diagnose bipolar disorder

in babies still in their mother's womb.

The problem with drugging pregnant

mothers with antidepressants like Paxil

is it dramatically increases

the risk of pre-term delivery

and doubles the chance of birth

defects such as heart malformations.

If I hadn't seen for myself what was

going on, I would never have believed it.

Psychiatric drugs are obviously not the

answer and yet they are practically everywhere.

But if drugs aren't

the solution, what is?

After all, Matthew was having trouble.

His problems were very real.

What should I have done for him?

For this, I flew to Minnesota to

ask Dr. Gary Kohls, a medical doctor

and an authority on the

dangers of psychiatric drugs.

Doctor Kohls, if I had brought my son

Matthew to you, what would you have done?

Well, he surely would never

have been on a drug, you know.

I would have spent an hour

and a half with him at first

to try to find out what

the root causes were,

make sure he didn't have some

physical problem for sure,

hypothyroidism for instance, or...

So you would have done some basic

blood work and physical exam.

Sure. Because there's so many things

as far as nutrition are concerned and

that can lead to sadness.

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