Louis Theroux - America's Medicated Kids - 1 of 4

Horrifying documentary about bad parenting... I mean, about suppressing natural differences in character.... No wait, I mean, about feminazis who have lost touch with their maternal instincts.... Hold on, no, it's about children misunderstood by parents who are significantly less intelligent than themselves... or is it, in part, about the ignorance which makes for a whole family's surprise when a teenage girl gets amphetamine withdrawal symptoms after cutting her dose of ADHD medication? No. No. Ok I've honestly got it this time. For real: It's a horrifying documentary about personality disorders in Kids and the psychotropic medication of them using drugs whose mechanism of action is often completely unknown and whose long term effects have not been tested, (let alone on children's brains - still in the formative years). Yes that's it!

Sorry to taint this with my opinion. I have been biting my lip. I have no idea how Louis does it for the whole episode.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Theroux
• ADHD
• Bipolar
• Adderall
• Concerta
• Ritalin
• Seroquel
• Parenting
• Aspergers
• Pharmaceutical
• Drugs
• Psychiatry
• Pillpushers

[neverfearchrisishere]

teenager medicated for being a teenager...

[SmellySpick]

Hahaha, i love the description.

[flyersphan111]

0:20 Crosby sucks.

[a01087483]

Part 2: its not like I regressed to the behaviour I had as a little kid but I definetly noticed that I couldnt concentrate on stuff that I could concentrate on when I was on the medication.

Now with time ADHD wears down, I'm now 22 years old and i'm fine, I can function without them, I wont claim I can concentrate fully now, I´ll never be able too, but i'm quite happy :p

[a01087483]

Now while I agree using those drugs on kids can be abused, and are in some cases if not a lot of them, I used to have a severe case of ADHD, I COULD NOT pay attention at school.. or finish ANYTHING when I was little, Im also a high functioning aspergers patient, now about the drugs, they truly helped me to concentrate, and i never complained about them until I hit puberty , when I started to resent having to use them, I was convinced I could control myself... truth is I couldnt

[christian689]

disgusting, there is no hope for this world

[MaryLouBrown]

Hugh does not have any of these "diseases". He is just too intelligent for all the air-headed pricks surronding him.

[MaryLouBrown]

01:56 "Oppositional defiant disorder!?!?!?" - that's the most wonderful euphemism for "spoiled brat" that I've ever heard!

[mumbojumbo766]

a good slap usually does the trick

[MrMechastreisand]

love social anxiety dog

[jormis95]

Hugh is the next Voldemort.

[freshboy187]

00:37 thats the kid from "david goes to the dentist"