By: Rafo Leon - We're No. 1169 (05/02/2009)
The modern neuroscience in the service of pharmacology in children.
So what I propose could not help but adore children: I have three granddaughters of a year will go walking through life as he opens windows to enter a bit of fresh air in wet rooms and full of dust, that water and routine boredom.
is great. Yet a few days ago I found myself advising a girl that had just matched children, who would have thought a thousand times, you can not continue to commit injustice towards beings who do not know what they are, because no one knows what coming after a long threshold of bad omens. This dialogue with the girl came after my time I had been listening at a meeting a cool chick, owner, director and a kindergarten teacher who leads with love, empathy, so the country and wonder. Alicia is pretty scary. In kindergarten has about fifty children between two and four years. He assures me that more than half are treated with Ritalin, methylphenidate famous psychiatrists and neurologists who prescribe and sell lentejitas D'Onofrio, to control Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity (ADHD). All I hear out of Alicia's lips are new words for me, especially the high proportion of children marked by those words, which do not sound good, let's be honest.
Alice in Worderland
Alicia I ask where does this disorder, what it is and what dangers they entail for the child and family. Caring for each of his sentences try to answer: ADHD eligible children restless, mischievous, playful who refuse to spend a whole hour in front of a computer in computer class (after four years!). "There are extreme cases, indeed, lawless, but are not the half of the children of Lima, Alicia sentence. Hazards, continuous, not for the child, are for parents. It turns out that if children do not begin to yield as large, with standards of care, understanding and performance for boys with twice as old, at least, mom and dad are there disappear the possibility of entering the best school in the city where they are taught to be a winner, which relate to offspring of the very best, where there is distinction to be living in Florida, but the drizzle and a pair of Peruvian swearing released around gardeners. Then, Ritalin.
Alicia I ask where does this disorder, what it is and what dangers they entail for the child and family. Caring for each of his sentences try to answer: ADHD eligible children restless, mischievous, playful who refuse to spend a whole hour in front of a computer in computer class (after four years!). "There are extreme cases, indeed, lawless, but are not the half of the children of Lima, Alicia sentence. Hazards, continuous, not for the child, are for parents. It turns out that if children do not begin to yield as large, with standards of care, understanding and performance for boys with twice as old, at least, mom and dad are there disappear the possibility of entering the best school in the city where they are taught to be a winner, which relate to offspring of the very best, where there is distinction to be living in Florida, but the drizzle and a pair of Peruvian swearing released around gardeners. Then, Ritalin.
Another Brick ...
With Ritalin the child is sedated, calm, apparently serving, hype does not move. Another brick in the wall Pink Floyd sang. But Alicia goes further: the teachers of the nests are also happy with the medication because then the establishment can receive as many registered since when are doped are more manageable. Froze to listen to Alicia and I make the stupid question "And nobody does anything to clarify and address this?". The answer is that the world is an intense debate about the ethical support of these diagnoses and, above all, of these so-subtle drug prescriptions. The subversive anti-psychiatry in the United States played with the conservative Scientology that a little more care the health of children, from neurosis successful parents. In the world but not in Peru. "I have a girl who breaks my heart," Alicia tells me as she closes her purse must go. "After three years and are taking benzodiazepines because according to her mother, can not sleep well." I confess I'm scared, I tired smiles and retorts: "next time I can tell of cases of infantile anorexia. Moms little girls see their future as a gateway bristles and inject a lethal message that eating hurts, scallops lunch boxes: crackers, a tomato, a bottle of Evian. " Do not have kids, girl, or before you learn to live.
With Ritalin the child is sedated, calm, apparently serving, hype does not move. Another brick in the wall Pink Floyd sang. But Alicia goes further: the teachers of the nests are also happy with the medication because then the establishment can receive as many registered since when are doped are more manageable. Froze to listen to Alicia and I make the stupid question "And nobody does anything to clarify and address this?". The answer is that the world is an intense debate about the ethical support of these diagnoses and, above all, of these so-subtle drug prescriptions. The subversive anti-psychiatry in the United States played with the conservative Scientology that a little more care the health of children, from neurosis successful parents. In the world but not in Peru. "I have a girl who breaks my heart," Alicia tells me as she closes her purse must go. "After three years and are taking benzodiazepines because according to her mother, can not sleep well." I confess I'm scared, I tired smiles and retorts: "next time I can tell of cases of infantile anorexia. Moms little girls see their future as a gateway bristles and inject a lethal message that eating hurts, scallops lunch boxes: crackers, a tomato, a bottle of Evian. " Do not have kids, girl, or before you learn to live.
