06 August 2009

Are psychiatrists short of patients?

Kids in the United States, some as young as three, have depression. Craegmoor Healthcare had the story which went like this, "According to lead author Dr Joan Luby, a psychiatrist at Washington University in St Louis, people have not really paid much attention to depressive disorders in children under the age of six because it was thought they were too emotionally immature to experience it."

I'd like to know what the shrinks use to work out a three-year-old is depressed. I'd also like to ask Dr Luby what she has planned for the toddlers. Antidepressants? The ones that create violence and suicide? Adults have done it in the workplace, teenagers have done it in the schoolyard. How about a three-year-old brandishing a gun in kindergarten? Possible?

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