A youth, around five, begins running around his house with a playmate. His playmate has little energy because he hadn't slept much the night before. The two play, but one appears to be overflowing with energy, he appears to be over-zealous and hyper, like a sugar rush. His parents recognize this difference, not realizing the difference stems from the other child's lack of sleep. They wonder if they should take their son to a Dr. due to his seeming "abnormality."
Thirteen years later, the child is leaving his parents' house after years of being drugged with Ritalin, and, as a result, wonders if he has become dependent on the drug. He is attached for life, spending millions of dollars to correct a disorder he never had in the first place.
Is this morally correct?
A man from another country, who barely speaks English, does not know how to communicate "properly." As a result, he cycles between two languages, a strange combination of his foreign tongue and the few English words he knows. A police officer walks by, hears him speaking to a store-owner (who is frustrated because he cannot understand the man), and as a result, decides to take him in for psychiatric evaluation. The store owner is well known, after-all, and anyone who would irritate the owner must have some sort of a problem. The Dr., who only speaks one language, begins giving the man medication for bipolarity. As a result, the pills begin triggering a chemical disequilibrium in the man's brain, giving him a bipolar disorder rather than healing it.
Is this morally correct?
A third youth recognizes the fact that he might have schizophrenia. He does not wish to see a psychiatrist because he does not wish to get attached to any medication for life, nor does he wish to be forced to lose millions of dollars to see a doctor week after week in therapy. So, he picks up a novel from an author who had once purposefully induced himself with schizophrenia by smoking pot. The book he picks up was a bildungsroman tale, where the main character transforms from a child into an adult, and through the process, overcomes his psychological difficulties. The book is called "A Clockwork Orange" The youth feels better after a couple of weeks.
Is this morally correct?
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