This psychiatrist just admitted what really happens to kids with autism who are “nuked with psychiatric drugs.” Their parents plead with doctors: “What else can we do?” “I’m killing my child … ” Bookmark this. Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring: “I get a lot of patients coming to me with autism who are essentially just nuked with psychiatric drugs.” “Big doses of mood stabilizers and antipsychotics.” “Over time, the kids gain weight.” “They develop side effects.” “They develop tardive dyskinesia.” “They start having movement disorders.” “They’re developing cardiovascular disease.” “They’re metabolically unhealthy.” “I want to remove the medications, but I have nothing to replace it with.” “The model I trained with was send them to speech therapy and OT and give them Risperdal.” “You just have to tell the parents … you have to live with it.” Honey Rinicella: “How hopeless … ” Dr. Witt-Doerring: “It’s heartbreaking for the families.” “There’s so many moms out there and fathers who are ready to do pretty much anything for their children.” “You could have a kid who has autism and they’ve been on psychiatric medications for a long time.” “And they’re even sicker than they were before.” “They’re more irritable.” “They’re more aggressive.” “Many doctors will just keep on stacking meds.” “The original problems keep on getting worse.” “And now they have all these drug-induced side effects.” Rinicella: “The biggest tragedy is … a lot of these children can’t communicate.” “Medicine typically just throws them on something that might be internally destroying them.” “And they have no way of communicating.” “The child never really gets to the root of why the behavior existed in the first place.” @MedMAPS @Honey_MedMAPS @DrJosefWD