Prozac for children

caspofungin · 06-07-06, 08:42 AM

nothing like a little over-defensiveness to give the game away...

DeepSix · 06-07-06, 03:48 PM

Part of depression is a lack of motivation. The risk with a "low-power" anti-depressant drug (Prozac, Zoloft, etc.) is that as it raises the patient's motivation, they find they have enough of it to consider suicide (among other things). That doesn't mean the drug is inherently bad; the problem is putting a child (or anybody, for that matter) on something without carefully monitoring it. The right dosage has to be achieved and it has to be taken on a fairly regular schedule. Anti-depressants can't be taken like aspirin. Lastly, the drug can't do it all; it's just there to assist the patient in doing what they have to do.

STEED · 06-07-06, 03:52 PM

Prozac screws up the brains chemistry and to give a drug like that to a child, you are asking for trouble.

DeepSix · 06-07-06, 03:55 PM

"Alters" brain chemistry, not "screws up."

Again, that's why I say monitoring is important. You can't "fire and forget" with anti-depressants.

STEED · 06-07-06, 03:59 PM

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"Alters" brain chemistry, not "screws up."

Again, that's why I say monitoring is important. You can't "fire and forget" with anti-depressants.

I have witness the results of these drugs from two friends I used to have both of them took stronger and stronger drugs. Both committed suicide

DeepSix · 06-07-06, 04:01 PM

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I have witness the results of these drugs from two friends I used to have both of them took stronger and stronger drugs. Both committed suicide

I am sorry.

August · 06-07-06, 04:02 PM

What a horribly bad idea.

STEED · 06-07-06, 04:04 PM

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I am sorry.

That's OK.

Skybird · 06-07-06, 04:23 PM

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I have witness the results of these drugs from two friends I used to have both of them took stronger and stronger drugs. Both committed suicide

Have you perceived changes in their personality? This is a symptom that often got descroibed by consuments, saiyng they felt as if a new, artificial persoanlity had been laid over their original, depressive one, making them sometimes feel like a prisoner in their own mind. In the psychiatry were I did my first "Praktikum" they used this - then relatively new - drug only with extreme hesitation and regular scanning exactly for this. I don'T know how they see it today, but back then (roughly mid-90s) Prozac had a very bad reputation amongst professionals.

STEED · 06-07-06, 04:57 PM

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Have you perceived changes in their personality?

Yes from the feel good factor to black moods.

August · 06-07-06, 06:20 PM

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but back then (roughly mid-90s) Prozac had a very bad reputation amongst professionals.

Probably from cases like that of the Massachusetts man who, right about that time frame, murdered his entire family in a prozac induced psycosis. IIRC the jury was not impressed with that defense.

06-07-06, 03:48 PM	#2
DeepSix Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Music City Posts: 683 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Part of depression is a lack of motivation. The risk with a "low-power" anti-depressant drug (Prozac, Zoloft, etc.) is that as it raises the patient's motivation, they find they have enough of it to consider suicide (among other things). That doesn't mean the drug is inherently bad; the problem is putting a child (or anybody, for that matter) on something without carefully monitoring it. The right dosage has to be achieved and it has to be taken on a fairly regular schedule. Anti-depressants can't be taken like aspirin. Lastly, the drug can't do it all; it's just there to assist the patient in doing what they have to do. __________________ Jack's happy days will soon be gone, To return again, oh never! For they've raised his pay five cents a day, But they've stopped his grog forever. For tonight we'll merry, merry be, For tonight we'll merry, merry be, For tonight we'll merry, merry be, But tomorrow we'll be sober. - "Farewell to Grog"

06-07-06, 03:52 PM	#3
STEED Lucky Jack Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Down Town UK Posts: 27,695 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 48	Prozac screws up the brains chemistry and to give a drug like that to a child, you are asking for trouble. __________________ Dr Who rest in peace 1963-2017. To borrow Davros saying...I NAME YOU CHIBNALL THE DESTROYER OF DR WHO YOU KILLED IT!

06-07-06, 03:55 PM	#4
DeepSix Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Music City Posts: 683 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	"Alters" brain chemistry, not "screws up." Again, that's why I say monitoring is important. You can't "fire and forget" with anti-depressants. __________________ Jack's happy days will soon be gone, To return again, oh never! For they've raised his pay five cents a day, But they've stopped his grog forever. For tonight we'll merry, merry be, For tonight we'll merry, merry be, For tonight we'll merry, merry be, But tomorrow we'll be sober. - "Farewell to Grog"

06-07-06, 04:02 PM	#7
August Wayfaring Stranger Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 23,204 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	What a horribly bad idea. __________________ Flanked by life and the funeral pyre. Putting on a show for you to see.

06-07-06, 08:42 AM	#1
caspofungin Commander Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 459 Downloads: 41 Uploads: 0	nothing like a little over-defensiveness to give the game away...