Dead Wrong: How Psychiatric Drugs Can Kill Your Child
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- 2010
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Matthew was a very loved child.
He was an 18-year-old American boy
like everybody else in this country is.
Normal boy.
When he was born he was just the
cutest little baby with big brown eyes.
He was a handsome little boy and
he was very happy all the time.
He was such a free spirit. He was so happy
all the time and he had a smile to die for.
I remember Matt's smile,
boy, I'll tell ya somethin'.
He was a charmer, yeah, those eyes of his
could probably get him in a lot of trouble.
He was always involved, you know.
He liked to be involved in sports...
We used to play basketball, paintball.
He was always a scrapper.
That's one thing we liked about him, if
you picked on him, he'd pick on you back.
Someone to always talk to, personal
relationships, someone you could depend on.
He was a great person, lots of fun.
I miss him.
I miss him every day of my life.
We called him Matthew,
we called him Matt.
The kids, the girls a lot called him
Matty, you know, but he was my Matt.
And he loved to fool around with
the kids and wrestle with the boys.
And he and Annie were very, very close
because they were the closest in age.
Those two, they were
like two peas in a pod.
But, unfortunately, apparently he was having
trouble sleeping and he was having bad dreams
and waking up and starting
to have like panic attacks.
That's when I said to him, "You
know Matt, maybe it would be helpful"
"if you talked to somebody outside of
the family. Would you want to do that?"
So, I made an appointment with him.
So we go in there and she sits down
with us and after no more than 15 minutes
of talking with Matthew and asking some
questions, she gives us samples of Lexapro.
So I said, "What about,
what about side effects?"
I said, "You know, what should we
expect from something like this?"
And she says, "Well, you know,
they're very well tolerated."
And she said, "You know, you either
could have like headache or nausea"
"or maybe some insomnia."
So we went home with our
sample pack of Lexapro and
at that point he
stopped wanting to talk.
He seemed to be withdrawing more.
This was weird behavior for him.
Well, a lot was happening at this time,
also, and he was graduating from high school.
Of course, the big plan, the kids
always, they go to Senior Beach Week.
He didn't want to go. He
wanted to go visit his brother.
And off he went.
The day that he was supposed to be
coming home it was around one o'clock,
I hadn't heard from him yet. He was
supposed to call me when he finally left.
Later on, I guess it was after I got
off work, I called and he didn't answer.
called me back and he said,
he might have said he was
almost to North Carolina.
It was about 11:
30 and I called. Hesaid, "I'm fine, I just passed Roanoke."
I woke up at around 2:30, kind
of jumped up, looked at the clock
and realized he should
have been home an hour ago.
So I called the cellphone.
It went straight to voicemail.
I kept calling and calling. I'm like,
"Matthew, answer the friggin' phone!"
I was like so upset. I fell asleep, woke up
again, it was about six o'clock in the morning.
for work, went to work.
I could hardly function. I went
and told my boss I have to go home.
Get in the door, phone's ringing...
...and there's this man on
the other end and he said,
"I'm looking for the
family of Matthew Steubing."
I said, "This is his
mother, who's this?"
And he said, "I'm calling
about the jumping."
Our world blew apart.
We couldn't imagine
that this had happened.
We couldn't understand, 'cause this,
this just wasn't Matthew.
None of this was Matthew,
I mean, it was like,
made no sense, it made no sense.
That was the beginning of my story.
As a mother, I needed to make sense
of what had happened to my child.
There were so many
questions. What had we missed?
months after Matthew's death
when my husband found a magazine article
that linked psychiatric drugs to suicide.
I was horrified.
And yet, I knew we had found the
answer to the biggest question of all,
"How could this have happened?"
The article answered some questions
but made me think of so many more.
I had to find out for
myself. I had to do something.
This is for you, Matthew.
Before, all I had ever
heard about psychiatric drugs
from the media, at schools,
in the doctor's office,
was how safe and effective they were.
You know, you feel sad and that means you
have a chemical imbalance in the brain.
Just take a pill and that will
help even you out, no problem.
But this certainly didn't
happen in Matthew's case.
Something was wrong with that
story and I needed to find out what.
But were there any professionals who
could tell me what's really going on?
Dr. David Stein, a psychologist who
has written many books and articles
against the use of psychiatric drugs
on children, agreed to talk with me.
So I made the three-hour
drive to see him.
Hi, how are you doing? Good to see you.
- I'm Celeste.
- I'm Dave Stein. Good to see you. Hi folks.
Tell me, what brought you to
drive all the way down here?
- Well, we went to a doctor,
a psychologist... - Okay.
...and my son was
diagnosed with depression
and we were told that it was being
caused by a chemical imbalance.
chemical imbalance in the brain
that can cause psychological problems?
No, actually that's one of the misstatements
of disinformation or misinformation
that's coming out, and unfortunately
I think your psychologist believes
there's a chemical imbalance
and a lot of people do, the
psychologists, educators.
The psychiatrists certainly accept it
and now pediatricians are accepting it.
It is not caused by a chemical imbalance
and what makes me angry is so many of
the doctors are just buying into that.
It's just not true.
And there is no test or anything that could
have been done to determine that. Am I right?
They claim that they've found this chemical
imbalance or that anatomical problem
or anomaly with the
brain or nervous system
and yet if you were to send your child
to a lab to have the chemical tests done
on his blood or urine, they would look at you
like you're insane because it can't be done.
So what they claim is an imbalance
cannot be measured by any laboratory
or urine tests or PE scans or CAT scans.
None of it can be replicated
at the clinical level
and there are about a thousand
claims that come out every year
where they think they've found the cause
of depression or ADD or bipolar disorder.
None of it is true.
- Does that answer your question, Celeste?
- Yes. I think so.
I feel that if I had known better, if I'd had
the information in front of me to make a decision,
he would never have been on that drug, to be
honest, he never would have been on that drug
and I believe we would
have worked it through,
so I feel, I feel to blame.
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