Children being prescribed anti-depressants

[thepianist]

It started with the catholic nuns taking the children whom were dyslexic or had a reading disorder or a bad homelife, being locked in the closets that held the coats.  This was super prevalent in the fifties and sixties.  I guess moms went on valium at the time, and believing doctors to be God, were willing to put their children on meds that they are too 

An afterthought:

As i continued thinking about it after my post and then I read your post again Charon it gave me a thought, 

Perhaps each generation is inheriting a personality trait, or "disorder" which was already caused by a lifelong use of the previous medication that adapts in the new generation and causes them to be genetically predisposed to what the doctors end up describing as a different form of learning disorder or some form of mental health issue and eventually treat with a newly discovered  and often viciously harmful pharmaceutical in its own right. 

I know big pharma isn't so evil that they have been secretly controlling mental development over decades so they can continue making money. But i still feel as if its morally wrong that anybody at all ends up making money off anothers struggles. 

I dunno, im not 100% sure how to feel on this one. Its a dangerous cycle that is gonna be pretty darn tough to break.

Big pharma being the controller of mental development is...close!  They work very closely with many organizations that, as the money trail will show, are involved in the education of young minds and that is just one example.

Medicine IS evolving, not repeating itself in a cyclical nature as history would show us of civilizations, however.  That, IMO, is partly due to not knowing or understanding history but mainly an aspect of human nature which is what I believe the primary reason to be (regarding history, lol).  It's not as fast as our iphon3s but physicians and researchers keep gaining more knowledge every day.

The WHO classification system for essential medicines in a developed society is a crucial entity.  It's what keeps certain meds alive, regardless of ridiculous anti-drug policies, because they've been shown time and time again to be effective at what they are advertised to do, and improve the well-being of any society.