Has Your Child Been Prescribed These!? | Full Documentary | Doctor Who Took Kids Off Drugs, Ep 2

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3 жыл бұрын

Dr Chris van Tulleken explores why children are taking more prescription drugs than ever before…
He looks into one of the biggest health crises facing young people: Depression. The number of children in Britain being treated with drugs for depression almost doubled from 2005 to 2015. Dr Chris wants to know why so many children are being given these meds and whether they actually work…
He discovers that most anti-depressants are not effective in children, while there is also a very real risk of them having increased harmful thoughts. He meets 15 year-old Jess who is so anxious she hardly leaves her bedroom. Over several months, and with Chris’s help, she takes up Wilderness Therapy. It’s a tough and emotional journey as Jess struggles with school, exams, and every day interactions. But by her 16th birthday Jess discovers she has made amazing progress.
Chris also looks into a medicine that’s rise in use dwarfs even the doubling of anti-depressants for teenagers. Prescriptions for milk formula to treat babies with Cow’s Milk allergy rose by almost 500% in the ten years to 2016 and prescriptions for this formula is now costing the UK's National Health Service over £64 million GBP a year.
When he attends a training day for NHS staff he finds advertising and sponsorship by the same company that makes the formula to treat the allergy! He concludes that we are muddling up advertising with science and healthcare and is shocked that we’re allowing big formula companies to promote this condition, a condition that they profit from treating.
As diagnoses and sales have all gone up, Dr Chris questions whether letting big business get involved in healthcare could get between our children and their health.
#Antidepressants #MilkAllergy
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@amyfeldman5301 3 жыл бұрын

Great documentary. I love how Dr Chris is talking to the children and teens as though they are adults and validating what they have to say.

@ayirikingjosh5929 Жыл бұрын

I love what you are doing Chris. Stay safe because you are fighting against the pharmaceutical companies who are like a cartel. I grew up seeing my dad taking medicine for ulcers. This is one of the topics you should consider.

@stargazerbird 3 жыл бұрын

That therapist was brilliant.

@ohwilbur1 3 жыл бұрын

Johan Hari writes about this as well - excellent books 'Chasing the Scream', and 'Lost Connections'. Another great book is 'The Body Keeps the Score' by Bessel Van Der Kolk on trauma, with discussion on the use of medications and the role of trauma in so many people's mental health.

@kimbeeau 3 жыл бұрын

Great documentary

@antonbudau3089 2 жыл бұрын

Well done doctor Chris, thanks for all what you do for us, about how to manage with big issues...👍👍👍

@breccamerie1 10 ай бұрын

I also wanted to note that I have a schoolmate that was on these anti-depressants in high school in the 90s. He ended up being picked on by a school bully. He went home and got his dad's hunting riffle on lunch, went back to school and waited for the bully to exit the school's field after football practice and then shot him. He just sat down and waited for the cops. Come to find out he was most likely bi polar and even stated he was hearing voices to his therapist prior to the incident. He got worse on the meds. He was the Valedictorian in his graduating class, active in church and a great student until his depression and meds. He is now serving a life sentence with NO possibility of parole even though he is in a christian band, talks with kids about prison and teaches adult classes for the system. These medication side effects were unknown in the 90s and people did not realize that they could cause aggression, deepening depression and suicide in children. If you look at many of the homicidal child cases you will find a lot of them have anti depression and anxiety meds in common. The way we treat mental "illness" needs to change.

@suzannezoubeck5216 2 ай бұрын

Hate to tell you but they did know in the 90s about the side effects. It's always been right there in the literature you should be getting every time someone gets a prescription (though how many people read every single word of what's on it...but they should). One of the side effects has always been suicidal ideation for most psych meds, especially for young people. So sorry for this young man and the family of the boy that was killed...a tragedy all round. In the USA we don't have a mental healthcare system, it's a mental illness management system which are two VERY different ways of approaching things. What we have now has very little to do with achieving mental health using drugs as a last resort instead of a first resort (unless things are in a state of crisis and immediate medication is warranted). And if you are put on medication, it seems as though there's no effort made, or possibility, to ever get off them even if it's an option. ❤☮🌎

@siemerssteve 11 ай бұрын

My heart breaks for the poor 15yo girl and I hope she gets better in the long run. However, at first glance she doesn't seem depressed at all to me. Also seems like the antidepressants are just used as a scapegoat for those around her. The pills certainly didn't misdiagnose her. Feels like there's lots of coping going on here.

@purposeandgrace3839 2 жыл бұрын

Human support team is huge help!

@bastian8889 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome work, i can honestly not understand how I only gets as few views as it has. More people should see this!

@Kiahboudreaufanning 3 жыл бұрын

This is one of the best documentaries I’ve ever watched it is amazing 😉

@lowendvibeswesleyhorn8053 3 жыл бұрын

Same

@gashacker1 11 ай бұрын

It truly is absurd that there are just a few thousand views of this program. Should be millions of views........

@samantharagazincky7873 2 жыл бұрын

I been on psych meds since 13 yrs old and I'm almost 32 yrs olds and suffered with mental health since 13 yrs old but my life started crashing earlier than that at age 11 yrs old but my childhood was worst than that with childhood PTSD and ADHD at 5 yrs old and diagnosed with ADHD at 22 yrs old again. I'm in the USA of Illinois. Depressive drugs are all bad they all cause suicidal thoughts and self harm thoughts and reoccurring depression and night terrors. My Ativan helps me with my topomax the best combination but I don't have bipolar I have BPD two different things. Doctors these days label us and just think they can treat us like guinea pigs but if we stick up for ourselves and tell them no doc I'm not taking that it doesn't help it causes this or what I did I refused the meds and threw them away and finally found the right medications and finally the doctors listened to me because I kept on refusing and throwing away meds that didn't help me or caused an adverse affect on me or I was allergic to the medication. You have a voice use it it's your body not an experiment stop letting doctors use yours a lab rat that's not what you are. You are you, you are a human, you are somebody, you mean something, speak up, and tell your story and don't let doctors treat you like a lab rat or an experiment because you are not one because I was treated like one and it was an experience that I went through and I learned on my own and I want to share to the world that don't allow doctors allow authority over your body and what you put in your body. Stand up for yourself and start speaking up for yourself

@rogerstevenson8068 5 ай бұрын

Chris has other material where he investigates ultra processed foods. I don’t remember if it’s him or another person that mentions it but they’re starting to link diet with depression and Alzheimer’s and I saw a video where a 400lb guy changed his diet to lose weight and it also helped with his bipolar symptoms. I’m not claiming it would help you specifically but cooking your own food from whole ingredients and cutting back sugar and vegetable oils and all the other food additives certainly won’t hurt you.

@breccamerie1 10 ай бұрын

My son had issues keeping milk down the day he was born. It was so bad he lost weight in the 3 days we were in the hospital and my "dr" literally called DHS on my because the nurses told her I refused to listen to them when in fact I was pushing for more testing done on my son. I was nursing and it was my goal to give him the best care I could. Needless to say, because he continued to throw up most of what I fed him, I couldn't keep up with his needs. He was nursing every 30 minutes to 2 hours and I was a student in college at the time and physically couldn't keep up so went on formula feeling like a failure. Returning to my dr she told me it was colic and that I needed to swap over from the cows milk based formula to soy formula which was better handled on baby's stomachs. That still didn't help. He most likely had an underdeveloped sphincter muscle in his stomach. She said he'd outgrow the issue by the time he was walking. He didn't and continued to have stomach issues. He's 25 now and suffers from anxiety, depression and still has stomach problems. We now know that soy formula changes the gut biome in baby's stomachs and has a high amount of aluminum. Both of those account for his present state. Word of advice, best way to feed your baby is nursing.....PERIOD. Advocate for your kids and get second opinions and even a third if necessary. Don't simply accept treatment of symptoms, but advocate for a true diagnosis.

@Holly-jp6vr 9 ай бұрын

Idk if he has ever tried of making bone broth but it is very healing to the gut biome.

@cherylburns2666 3 жыл бұрын

I really like this documentary and series, while I do agree that meds can be VERY harmful and other treatments can be better and safer we still need a lot more work on treatments. I wish there we way more medical tratments/facilities that helped kids and teens succeed and were more available to all. I also wish there were more medical but safer ways to help teens long term and balance what is going on.

@sorinjasoncnd5560 10 ай бұрын

I am from Romania . I lived in Canada for 22 years, before returning to live quietly back home. When I immigrated to Canada, back in the 90’s I was amazed by how many crazy people were there everywhere , how many addicted people especially young , and by how so many people were allergic, asthmatic and diabetic, no to talk about the many obese I was seeing. It was like I was arriving in another world... Of sick people... British people should be thankful to the more then 1 million Romanians living now in Uk because they would improve the British people genome ... Romanians are way healthier mentally and overall... Corporate Capitalism and their marketing are destroying the fibre of the society. Corporate intensive agriculture , I suspect that is the source of all the diseases. I remember how the media from The Uk was showing how incipient the agriculture in Romania , made on a small plots of land and with horse carriage... That agriculture and way of living brought up healthy and strong Romanians. I am watching now in desperation how the state of Romanian society health is falling on the same path of our British friends ...

@numbernine3436 10 ай бұрын

Omgosh Jess is so pretty. Those dimples are everything! Stay strong young lady, you have a purpose in this life. Children as young as 9-10 yrs old are struggling. Perhaps they will see your story & find hope. School isnt for everyone, crowds aren't for everyone. There is home schooling, online courses. There are occupations where you may be outdoors more than you're indoors. Working w/animals or other things you may be interested in. You are beautiful and loved❤

@megangreene3955 10 ай бұрын

My own babies were Neocate babies because of milk/soy protein intolerances. My second daughter was a failure to thrive baby on cows milk formula... even the most gentle formulas weren't gentle enough. Neocate saved my daughter. She had the constant bloody diarrhea, the extreme colic, weight loss and failure to thrive. I'm thankful for Neocate. My son has fat malabsorption. Neocate again saved the day. Sometimes Neocate is the best answer.

@korbkelly 2 жыл бұрын

I have worked in inpatient psychiatric facilities before and do agree some of these medications are severely over prescribed and not necessary. HOWEVER, speaking from my own experience, I was put on one of these a little over a year ago and am greatly benefitting from it (and also therapy). I believe they are designed to be an adjunct with other treatments (counseling, etc).

@danielmclaughlin2145 2 жыл бұрын

I think a lot of allergy symptoms are a build up of casomorphines from A1 caesin intolerance more so than lactose intolerance. You can supplement lactase which corrects almost all lactose intolerances. To avoid A1 caesin you need to source specialised a2 cow dairy or have sheep or goats dairy.

@rockofullr 3 жыл бұрын

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@builtontherockhomestead9390 10 ай бұрын

There is a TED Talk where research has shown mega amounts of micronutrients significantly helped individuals with severe mental illness. I wonder if micronutrients would help depression.

@melvyncarrot4741 3 ай бұрын

Yes they do, those micronutrients are also known as the neuroproteins or neuropetides that are not only neuroprotective, they are also essential for brain health.

@rosietheriveter-wecandoit7417 Жыл бұрын

I like what he's trying to do, I'm just sorry he's not including nutrition, SOS (Salt, Oil and Sugar) free and plant based diets in his arsenal of anti-drug therapies.

@courtneypuzzo2502 3 жыл бұрын

what about kids who have severe forms of ADHD etc. and need the anti depressant to balance their emotions fluroxetine is Prozac

@jamsaidemelo1367 3 жыл бұрын

Adhd and depression are different. If someone needs antifepressand also there may be additional difficulty then adhd in my opinion. Keep in mind I am just a mother of 2 ADD and 1 ADHD. I also suffer from ADHD. I think challenges of ADHD can make life si much more challenging and worsen symptoms qualified as depression. Robust activity, challenging work and hyper organisation and regular talk therapy has been useful. Sadly life in school doesn't really allow for an ADHD to spread their wings in the way needed. I also strongly believe the side effect experienced with the adhd meds can worsen delression and anxiety. It causes a painful internal rumbling. Special with dose is too high.

@lilpinksliplee7310 3 жыл бұрын

As a nurse who myself has ADHD and a son with ADHD and a son & daughter who have ADD the medication route for any of us was awful. If you have an organized environment and structured routine you don't need to rely on medication. You also need to be understanding and patient with your child. Parents today don't want to take the time to engage with their children and just want to scream and yell, rather than teach them how to control themselves or their behavior. We might learn a bit differently, or may need more frequent breaks, soothing background music or a quiet out of the way spot to calm ourselves, but swallowing a pill that speeds up the central nervous system never helped any of us in fact Ritalin caused my son to go into psychosis.

@PigBig66 11 ай бұрын

Turn the drugs off. Food is better.

@joanofarc33 3 жыл бұрын

We need a lifestyle revolution. We need to throw out our tv’s, phones, computers. We need to spend time getting to know our neighbors, take control of our local communities, grow our food in gardens and support community gardens and farms. We need to stop being managed by corporations through pills. WE ARE NOT LIVING HUMAN LIVES!

@kimhunter2 3 жыл бұрын

The side note increasing "cow's milk" allergy coincides exactly with the introduction and increase of GMO feed. Side, side note, organic grass fed meat and dairy contains 40 to 80% more omega. Side, side, side, note, after 20 years of "lactose intolerance" I discovered I can digest organic dairy. :D #Trust YourGut #NotRoundupReady #KnowYourPoison

@happydays1336 2 жыл бұрын

If able to, new mothers should breast feed their babies which makes the worries about cow's milk non-existent. (I'm not criticizing women who want to breast feed but are unable to.) I'm wondering if fortified alternative milks (almond, coconut, etc..) would be healthy. They are very low calorie, though.

@hannahkroon5233 10 ай бұрын

A generation or two ago, moms breastfed and were at home... That's why you are seeing allergies to cows' milk more.

@louloumoon1916 Жыл бұрын

Why the hell are so many babies on formula, why are babies being fed cows milk anyway, we are not calves. The teenage element was frightening and informative.

@juliabohmer6300 3 жыл бұрын

I don't think it is ok to have this kinda attitude about anti depression drugs while they only looked into like what- one study? I know many many many people who do take sertralin after not believing in anti depressiva and therefore changing the drug (for example they had something like fluroxetine and decided to take sertralin) and they got so much better. It is totally irresponsable to just say "sugar pills are better than that" because I have seen the struggle people have with depression, especially teens and I know that many might say it got worse once they started taking anti depressiva but many people with depression have this kinda attitude towards drugs so they start talking themselves into something called "self-fullfilling prophacy" (sorry for my bad english). Years after that they start to realise how they actually got better because of the medicine they took. I'm not saying these based on one person. I'm working in this kind of field with teens and honestly, those who are given sertralin turn out to get much better (at least many of them)

@juliabohmer6300 3 жыл бұрын

*this

@petitecontrebassiste 3 жыл бұрын

same. I find this sort of presentation a bit harmful because it might deter parents from agreeing to medication for their kid even though it might be absolutely necessary. obviously it should be closely monitored by a psychiatrist and combined with therapy, but for moderate - severe depression, therapy alone is not enough, and I believe studies support that. also the oxford doctor said "only fluoxetine, ON AVERAGE, was better than placebo", so that doesn't mean the others don't work for all individuals, especially since it's only one study. so based on only that, especially in severe cases, I'd always try medication. sertraline isn't always a good fit for someone with extreme anxiety like jess though; it can make anxiety worse, especially at doses of over 100mg, so she might benefit more from sth. like escitalopram.

@juliabohmer6300 3 жыл бұрын

@@petitecontrebassiste yeah exactly

@lilpinksliplee7310 3 жыл бұрын

@@petitecontrebassiste There isn't just one study regarding antidepressants and use with teens and children there are several. In fact there have been several civil lawsuits that have been settled out of court because teens have committed suicide because of the antidepressants used. The fact that drug companies want to sweep this under the rug is disgusting and call these deaths casualties of doing business is atrocious. This is what l call dangerous.

@melvyncarrot4741 3 ай бұрын

I beg to differ , if you eat a clean diet,exercise, find a therapist to talk, there is no such need to even take one of these pills to treat "depression" if you think these people ( including myself ) feel great after taking Setraline (Zoloft),perhaps you should go to the forum to se for yourself how many of us are trying to come off these drugs and that we have to taper off slowly and have to endure some unpleasant withdrawal symptoms.Its not days of coming off them completely and be fine ,its months and years of tapering and having to cope with the inifinte time frame for a full recovery. This is literally a living hell going each time we make a reduction on our dosage .

@NadjaLind 11 ай бұрын

maybe infants are not supposed to consume cows milk, they are built to drink Mom's milk?

@zephyrr914 3 жыл бұрын

It’s all about the money for drug companies.

@zephyrr914 3 жыл бұрын

Obviously school is not for Jessie. Let her learn at home.

@DM-ql6ps 3 жыл бұрын

Well some of the ideas in this documentary series are good, others are dangerous. This may encourage people to suddenly stop taking meds, which was many meds is not safe. If you want to get off of med talk to a doctor and they will probably have you taper off of it. I know he states this in the documentary, but I worry that people will just ignore that.

@joanofarc33 3 жыл бұрын

What happened to breastfeeding?

@joanofarc33 2 жыл бұрын

@@persephone342 what is ignorant about breastfeeding? My mother who was a midwife as well as nurse said back in the day the majority of women did not use money for formula unless the infant rejected the breast or there was a nutritional problem with the mother or child. Working women bottled their breast milk. Breast milk is the most valuable milk for an infants immunity not corporate manufactured formula. In the video they just argue the merits of changing one formula for another corporate pushed formula.

@joanofarc33 2 жыл бұрын

@@persephone342 But I wasn’t thinking in absolutes. I a, simply saying that breast milk is best and unless there is a reason why it cannot be used like some of you examples then it should be used. There are young women today who think cesarean section is a normal way to deliver because its what is prescribed in hospitals where doctors do not want to have to wait for natural birth and similarly there are young women think you give a newborn formula instead of using the breast. Surely we can agree that a mothers natural formula is best under normal circumstances. I mean its why we have breasts (lol).

@joanofarc33 2 жыл бұрын

@@persephone342 Ah ok! Sorry I misunderstood. Yes! I agree with you!

@tibetanscienceofhealing-so84 Жыл бұрын

@@joanofarc33 You're so right, the lack of breast milk and vaginal births has contributed to explosion of obesity and metabolic diseases over the past 50 years.

@zephyrr914 3 жыл бұрын

I hate antidepressants.

@elise9542 3 жыл бұрын

I love mine. Have you ever tried or do you just listen to someone you just saw online?

@kikicogger2284 3 жыл бұрын

It's honestly harmful to keep spreading this idea that pills are always automatically bad. Some depression needs medical intervention or a child can actually die. Meditation does not work for every child with ADHD, especially when hyperactivity isn't the main problem. It would be more helpful to try and catch these diseases early, put up a treatment plan (with meds only if necessary), and encourage kids to talk about their mental needs.

@DM-ql6ps 3 жыл бұрын

Also stopping a medication suddenly can actually be really dangerous. I'm kind of afraid that people will see documentaries like this and decide to just stop taking their meds without consulting a doctor, which can be seriously dangerous

@elise9542 3 жыл бұрын

I totally agree with you. It is dangerous to talk abort medicin in this way. I am very thankfull for my meds and wouldn't have survived without my antideppresant!

@danielmclaughlin2145 2 жыл бұрын

Putting a child on any medication for a long period of time is chemical labotamy. Screw your sense of righteousness.

@danielmclaughlin2145 2 жыл бұрын

People don't even take supplements and nootropics for extended periods due to receptor cite downregulation. People cycle on and off to keep receptor cites healthy. Ritalin just causes depression and psychosis in later life. It depletes dopamine. Shikimate acid dysfunction in the soil is responsible for aromatic amino acid deficiency and without adequate dietary tyrosine phenylalanine and tryptophan people are low in dopamine AND serotonin plus if you're iodine deficient which most are your enteroendocrine cells can't produce serotonin via gut bacteria either this is why people benefit from dopamine and serotonin reuptake inhibitors. Most who are on these then go on to take D2 blockers due to receptor cite damage. Please don't spread misinformation based on ideology. The "medications" ruin far more lives than they save. And for those they save, it is short lived.

@gashacker1 11 ай бұрын

@@danielmclaughlin2145 Brilliant comment Daniel. Pill advocates need to understand the damage these medications cause to our youth......

@mucha9196 3 жыл бұрын

Ok why are the babies taking cows milk anyway what’s happened to the mom’s milk 😳

@rubyrose3553 3 жыл бұрын

Not All GP are male

@Tammissa 3 жыл бұрын

If mothers breastfed their babies they wouldn’t have any problems.

@TheFriendlyTacos 3 жыл бұрын

WOW you do realize 1) not every postpartum person can lactate/baby won't latch oR can't handle the milk 2) birth defects where feeding tubes are necessary 3) adoption

@elceenomoun8115 2 жыл бұрын

Despite best efforts, some simply don't produce enough quality milk. It's tremendously frustrating for new mothers, especially when the clinical diagnosis is called "failure to breastfeed". 100 years ago, wet nurses were employed to supplement the child's feedings.