Maybe it's time to make all parents submit to the school if their kids are on SSRI's, and have psych evals done for ALL students once a year

Goodbye land of the free.

Um, no.

Maybe it's time for Big Pharma to be held accountable for pimping dangerous drugs to doctors and their vulnerable patients?

Maybe it's time to stop drugging our kids?

Maybe it's time to fix our failing and dysfunctional educational system in this country?

Maybe it's time to really address the decimation of the family unit in this country?

Maybe it's time to bring this filthy violent gansta/walking dead /hedonistic/abortion/mud culture under control, start at the root of the problem

Or maybe it's time to go back to throwing the bad seeds off a cliff or something (or forget I said that)

SSRIs should just be illegal simple as that. Adderal and other mind altering drugs like valium need to be looked at too.

Then the kid mentions, during the evaluation, that Daddy has a few guns and that he is scared of them....

That is when they confiscate your weapons...

Bad Idea!!!

this.

I agree with all the above. But, I say instead of psych evaluations every year, make them every three months for four a year. And they should be monitored with a once a month meeting with the prescriber for a "wellness check". If a kid is so bent that he has to take SSRIs he most definitely does need close monitoring by a doc to determine if treatment is working, that there's no severe side effects, or if treatment is even needed any more. It's positively ludicrous that most patients are put on SSRIs, sent out into the "wild" of the public eye without even monitoring for potentially deadly interactions. Like homicide. Or suicide ideation. Instead, they're told come back in six months. Or a year. That's not treatment for a mental disorder, that's throwing a bottle of pills and told "good luck". Imagine if you were diagnosed as a diabetic during a checkup and told to come back in a year and we'll see how your doing. The disparity between how mental and physical disorders are treated are miles apart.

Perhaps it's time for patients who need or think they need SSRIs be treated the same way as those with chronic or long term pain medication needs. They're both highly addictive and can cause both physical and mental problems with their side effects. But could you imagine the blowback if that were to happen? So why is it I could fall of a ladder, break a leg and be told I don't need (nor could I get) a simple prescription for a week narcotic, but I can walk into my GP and say I need an SSRI and be handed months of a prescription and simply stay on it for years despite no clinical presentation of an actual need for such a powerful psychotropic? Why is one addiction perfectly ok while the other isn't? And don't tell me because the SSRIs won't be abused like a narcotic would, because they are.