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Dosed: The Medication Generation Grows Up
by
Kaitlin Bell Barnett (Goodreads Author)
Over the last two decades, we have seen a dramatic spike in young people taking psychiatric medication. As new drugs have come on the market and diagnoses have proliferated, prescriptions have increased many times over. The issue has sparked heated debates, with most arguments breaking down into predictable pro-med advocacy or anti-med jeremiads. Yet, we’ve heard little fr...more
Hardcover, 256 pages
Published
April 10th 2012
by Beacon Press
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This book has the advantage of not being polemical on the issue of medicating adolescents with psychotropic drugs. It has the disadvantage of not actually concluding anything. Psychotropic drugs are neither good nor bad for young people in general, the long-term effects are mostly unknown, and the experience of adolescents who use them varies widely. The author takes 210 pages to say this. So, as you can imagine, there's some padding.
If you enjoy reading journalistic style autobiographies of th...more
If you enjoy reading journalistic style autobiographies of th...more
Dosed is a book that will be welcome to many, many people, and not just those who have taken medications. It covers psychiatric medications and the people who grew up taking them. Specifically, seeks to answer the question of how the medicated teens feel about who they are - their actual identities. This may seem like a non-issue, especially to those of us who have never taken these kinds of meds, let alone grown up on them. The author herself admits that this is something she had not considered...more
This is a serious and important subject. It is essentially about the question, “Who am I,” approached via the use of prescription drugs used to define, or accentuate, who you are. The book is well written in a measured and precise voice, and uses the self-disclosed case histories of six (I’m including the author) people; beginning in one instance, in 1993, when the subject was five years old. Barnett weaves the six case histories with current academic research, as well as interviewing many other...more
A really valuable book with a careful, balanced review of the pros and cons of life on meds. There’s hardly any family out there, really, that hasn’t been touched by mental illness, and having a book that deals head-on with the identity issues and coping strategies that result from growing up “medicated” is an amazing resource. The best parts of the book are the real-life journeys of child psych patients and how their experiences on meds have not only affected how they’ve thought about their liv...more
ok book about author, five peers she interviews in depth, and to a lesser extent young adults in general who have grown up taking psychiatric medication. Raises interesting questions about issues such as how it affects one's sense of identity to be taking mood-altering or mood-stabilizing meds during a life stage when identity is forming, when moodiness is at a high level anyway, etc.
Limited by the near-total absence of meaningful research to review on the subject. Often an interesting question...more
Limited by the near-total absence of meaningful research to review on the subject. Often an interesting question...more
A well-researched account of the various issues confronting adults who have taken antidepressant and ADD medication since childhood. Indeed, the exploration of the many uncertainties surrounding treatment, including questionable efficacy, long and short-term side effects, haphazard care, issues surrounding pregnancy, and general questions about identity are relevant to anyone taking (or prescribing) such medications over a prolonged period. The author enlivens her narrative with case histories a...more
The author is close to my age and writes of the experience of being the first generation to grow up with widespread childhood use of psychiatric drugs such as Prozac and Ritalin.
Although twenty- and thirty-something adults from a variety of backgrounds are profiled, the author neglected to discuss the situation of teenagers and young adults who feel they may have benefited from antidepressants or other medication, but for whatever reason were prevented from taking them. Much is said of our pare...more
Although twenty- and thirty-something adults from a variety of backgrounds are profiled, the author neglected to discuss the situation of teenagers and young adults who feel they may have benefited from antidepressants or other medication, but for whatever reason were prevented from taking them. Much is said of our pare...more
The book follows the lives of a half dozen people or so who have been medicated for anxiety, depression or both since they were between 9-12 and are now basically in their early 30's. The bookdoes not come to any strong conclusions though I would say that in each case except maybe one they are all worse off for being on the various meds (mostly ssri's). It becomes clear that when put on the meds new and more difficulties emerged which I believe where generated by the meds and their affect on the...more
Reading Dosed while in the midst of my own very conflicted inner thought game about the effects that being dosed since a fairly young child have had on the person I have grown into as a young adult really helped me to sort out some of the confusion and conflict that I've been going through, if only to see that others have been dealing with the very same issues, some brought on by the same source.
I didn't get much out of this book at all. The author didn't seem to prove her point particularly well. It was also a little dry. I thought it was interesting that another book with an incredibly similar title but different author appeared on Goodreads giveaways recently.
You follow three people in the beginning and then later into the book you are introduced to two more people as you read through the years. This book touches on how drugs have helped and how people are too quick to medicate. Paul is one of those medicated when he didn't need to be, and from what I've seen and heard, it is his story that I connect with the most. All of these peoples stories are touching and give you a look in how it would be like growing up medicated.
A fine read for anyone interested in what “medicated kids” have to say rather than just their parents, docs, teachers or other people who so very often like to speak on their behalves. Bell Barnett makes excellent use of scientific research and other studies while seamlessly interweaving the stories of several real life “medicated kids”, including herself in an un-selfconscious manner. Her subject is certainly territory that needs to be further explored, and Dosed is a good beginning to what I h...more
Shockingly, openly biased book about medication. I had seen an interview with the author prior to reading it, so I expected the bias. This topic could have been handled in a much better way. I doubt I'll read anything Ms. Barnett writes in the future.
PRIMARILY ANECDOTAL.
Very informative, but a bit dry. If I had kids, I would really think about medicating them.
Interesting perspective. I like that there are real cases to express the view point of the book.
Accurate
Really made me think about things and ask myself questions I hadn't before.
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