Prior to becoming a board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist, Elizabeth J. Roberts, M.D. taught elementary school kids in the Chicago public school system.
Here are some quotes:
"It's easier, sadly, to tell a parent your child has a chemical imbalance rather than to have to confront the parent with the idea that perhaps their parenting hasn't been up to par. No parent wants to hear that; no clinician wants to confront a parent. It's just easier to go along with the party line."
"Parents will come in and say, "my child is bipolar, I'm sure. Six people in my family have been diagnosed with it." So that means every drunk in your family that blows up at Thanksgiving has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder."
"You have a profession driven by [researchers] who've taken millions of dollars from Risperdal and Seroquel, promoting this idea that every child has a tantrum is bipolar. Parents that are on the Internet researching, parents that don't want to have you tell them that you're parenting is terrible and the reason your kid is a brat is because you cannot parent well, they want to hear that he is chemically imbalanced, and an insurance system that drives docs to see a kid in five minutes and doesn't want to have a fight with parent [encourages overmedication]. 'You think he has bipolar disorder? Here's your script. Next!' And now you have a whole country full of medicated children."
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