Ep. 146 - The Terrible Potential Consequences Of Giving Psychiatric Drugs To Kids
The Matt Walsh Show
The Matt Walsh Show
4.7 • 27.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today on The Matt Wall Show, we're going to discuss the terrible tragic case of a young child who committed suicide. |
| 0:06.0 | Could her ADHD medicine have played a role in the tragedy? |
| 0:09.0 | Her parents think so. So what can we learn from this case? |
| 0:12.0 | And what does it tell us about these drugs? |
| 0:14.0 | And how we should approach these drugs and how cautious we should be about putting our kids on these drugs? |
| 0:20.0 | We'll talk about all of that on The Matt Wall Show. |
| 0:22.0 | Well, this is a horrific story. |
| 0:30.0 | Just horrible. And I can barely stand to talk about it, but I think we need to talk about it. |
| 0:36.0 | Last week, a nine-year-old girl named Maddie Wittset, she was on the fourth grade, and she hanged herself, committed suicide. |
| 0:47.0 | Now, her parents have said that their daughter came home from school that day. |
| 0:54.0 | This was, I believe, last Monday. She came from from school. |
| 0:58.0 | Apparently in a fine mood, they were going to go to Chick-fil-A. She was excited about that, running around the house. |
| 1:02.0 | You know, as you can imagine, you know, if you have kids at home and you tell them you're going out to eat somewhere, |
| 1:07.0 | they get really excited about that. So she was running around the house, excited. |
| 1:10.0 | And then she went up to her room, and her mom went up a little bit later to get her and let her know it's time to go to lunch. |
| 1:17.0 | And that's when she found her daughter hanging in the closet. |
| 1:24.0 | Now, of course, you can't even begin to contemplate the horror of a scene like that. |
| 1:31.0 | I mean, it's just unthinkable. It's the worst thing in the world. |
| 1:38.0 | It's the worst thing in the world. It's the worst thing that anyone could ever experience. |
| 1:44.0 | And my heart aches for her parents. It's, it's. |
| 1:49.0 | Horrific. |
| 1:52.0 | Well, when something like this happens, of course, the obvious question is. |
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