Please Don't Label My Child: Break the Doctor-Diagnosis-Drug Cycle and Discover Safe Effective Choices for Your Child's Emotional Health

About this book

A leading child psychiatrist warns against todays alarming eagerness to brand kids with a diagnosis of emotional illness and shows parents where to look for the real culprits. In recent years the diagnosis of ADHD depression and bipolar disorder in children has skyrocketed. From 1987 to 2003 the number of kids in the United States who were prescribed psychiatric medications tripled. If this trend continues within a generation half of American children will be on some kind of psychiatric drug. Are more and more of our kids really being born with faulty brain chemistry? Or are they being misdiagnosed at an alarming rate? Child psychiatrist and former president of the American Holistic Medical Association Scott Shannon argues that behavioral and emotional problems are far too often treated as medical problems rather than what they really are a response to various kinds of stress which parents can learn to identify and eliminate from their childrens lives. With Please Dont Label My Child Dr. Shannon helps parents to zero in on the stressors that could be at the root of their childs problem from nutrition poor sleeping habits and toxins to a school thats a poor fit for a childs learning. The happy result Dr. Shannon shows is often a childs return to mental health without intense long-term medical intervention.