Clinical depression is an illness just like any other. It requires care and sometimes drugs to assist with recovery.
It should not be confused with ordinary depression associated with specific events such as a bereavement.
However, notwithstanding either of the above definitions, the original question, albeit inelegantly phrased, asked if it was appropriate to use drugs designed to alleviate clinical depression on pre-school kids i.e 4 or 5 year olds.
Whilst it may be that some children do suffer from depression I have to say it is not something I have encountered in many years as a parent.
So are the drugs being used to control what we used to call "lively" children. If so, are we heading to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World?
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