Lawrence Diller M.D. on May 29, 2008
I only read Newsweek’s cover story from last week (May 26, 2008), “Growing Up Bipolar: Max’s World,” yesterday. The piece by Mary Carmichael relates in great detail the travails of a boy named Max who was diagnosed “bipolar” at age eighteen months by a Tufts University child psychiatrist. He is now ten and a half and by his parents’ reckoning he has been on 28 different psychiatric drugs. The article left me feeling profoundly depressed about my profession and what we are offering as help to children and their families today.
I only read Newsweek’s cover story from last week (May 26, 2008), “Growing Up Bipolar: Max’s World,” yesterday. The piece by Mary Carmichael relates in great detail the travails of a boy named Max who was diagnosed “bipolar” at age eighteen months by a Tufts University child psychiatrist. He is now ten and a half and by his parents’ reckoning he has been on 28 different psychiatric drugs. The article left me feeling profoundly depressed about my profession and what we are offering as help to children and their families today.