Earlier this week, Frontline aired a report on children with bipolar who were being drugged at a very young age. It followed three or four inparticular, and while one of them seemed to most certainly need them, the others I fear were unnecessarily medicated, and it seems to have ruined their lives. One girl and boy inparticular are suffering quite a bit still and I have a hard time seeing how the drugs ever helped them, and look and act as such. Nervous tics, awkward and skittish behavior, awkward communication and facial expression.

On the flip side, I hope there are success stories of kids treated very young and have managed to lead otherwise normal lives.

There's a lot of medical errors in this country, I've just learned the other day that the institute of medicine reports that 7 percent of the population will receieve medication errors, just like those kids. Also 98,000 people die each year in hospitals because of errors. You know the problem with America is our answer to everything is some form of drug. The attitude is reflected in the health care and the people themselves, everyone wants a quick fix to everything, so we just pop pills mindlessly for our entire lives.

Well said, I get so sick of people pushing pills in my face in the form of anti depressants. I took my first Citalopram today. The good news is I copped 30 of them from Walmart for $4. But still, right now I'm pretty depressed about a girl I just met online. I have a bad feeling she's going to dump me muy rapido because of my height

Hey headcase, good to hear from you again. I admire the very fact you're meeting girls, whether online or in person, and if she does dump you, then she doesn't deserve someone as thoughtful as you, its her loss, not yours. I know it sounds silly saying that, because I'd feel burned too when someone just shuts me out because of the way I look, but maybe by some miracle, a truly honest and decent person will come along.

Yeah and about the drugs or medication, I'm realizing they do not help me, and i think I'm going to stop wasting my money on them. I just think the industry wants my $$, and don't care whether I get better or not, sigh, such is life I guess.

And just to add to the fact more and more kids are being prescribed ADs and other drugs, there have been a lot of school shootings in this country lately. In my school alone, we've had 3 suicide attempts in the course of 4 weeks, but no one cares about us, so we didn't make national news. Oh and less and less kids are graduting from high school, and the kids graduating from college are seriously lacking communication and social intelligence skills. Which is why I'm losing faith in my education and crednetials by the day