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g_puller wrote

As some one who was medicated by my highly religious parents, I can say from my own experience that psychologists are skilled labor. What that means is that they will try to take a raw product (the patient) and process (medication and 'therapy'') the raw product into what the customer (parents, for others it's courts or themselves) wants to form a finished product (the patient and what ever changes they want to see. These changes may not be what the patient wants, and may have lasting damages from the medications. It's all well and good and all if patient is instituting these changes and has an understanding of the possible damages, but in the case of parents who want to see a happy and compliant child it can be particularly damaging to the mental well being of the patient. I remember going to a psychiatrist and my parents complained nonstop, I didn't even say anything, and the psychiatrist wrote a prescription and we left. I look back on that from a perspective of a parent now and see that that guy was just a contractor to write perscriptions. In the case of courts due to damage to another individual it is a very grey area on how to improve the situation....

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L0rdEMPRESS_GaLaXyBrAiN wrote

Some of my family members keep their kids in line with medication. Even though they tell them they don't like the way it makes them feel they still shove it down their throats because they just want compliant little robots... and surprise surprise there is a lot of money in raising kids through chemicals.

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g_puller wrote

It seems like the way that my grandparents raised their kids might have been the better way to go. Kick them out of the house during the day and tell them to go play outside...

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