Everybodys talking about the big "Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity-Disorder" that has now become a "worldwide Epidemic". If a child cant sit still all day, if it cant suppress its natural urge to play and move, the child is labelled "mentally ill". If a child is unwilling to be indocrinated by boring and useless information all day it is labeled "mentally ill". And then medicine is prescribed, parents asked to accompany their child to a therapist, weird treatments developed and Billions of Dollars wasted because the child wont CONFORM to the collectivist indoctrination-centers we call "school".

How ridiculous is that? If you show a kid "suffering" ADHD something interesting and relevant, he/she will get interested. If you let the kid move a little more, play a little more, enjoy a little more, it will get relaxed. Maybe a bit less ultra-violent-video-games and rapid-movement movies for the six year old. Maybe a bit less sugar for the youngster. And get some Humor into the classroom for goodness sake. As a teacher you need to look at the kid before you look at the Schoolbook. Too many teachers are underpaid and undereducated, staring at books and curricula instead of making a heart-to-heart connection with the kids.

Its not active, energetic and playful kids that need curing, its the deadbeats who think it is an illness to be alive.

[edit on 21-8-2010 by Skyfloating]

Originally posted by VneZonyDostupa
While I agree that psychiatic drugs (especially those for ADD/ADHD) are overprescribed, it is incredibly ignorant to use this as a basis to claim that the conditions simply don't exist.

Im not using overprescription as the basis for the claim that ADHD doesnt exist. My basis for saying ADHD doesnt exist is that being active and playful and not paying attention to a teachers monologue for hours is not a mental illness to me.

To see this sort of poor logic coming from a moderator is a bit troubling, to say the least.

Are you saying that people who differ from your worldview should not help out to Moderate Discussion Boards?

Originally posted by unityemissions
I saw a study that linked adhd to preservatives and artificial colors/sweeteners. Once they were removed from the diet, the kids symptoms greatly diminished.

Ive also seen that some "ADHD" is sweetener and sugar related.

Originally posted by LadySkadi
I'm also very disappointed in the "research" that did or did not go into this thread.

You dont need any research to see that many of the kids labeled as "ADHD" are entirely fine...they're just not interested in sitting in a chair and shutting up for 7 hours straight.

Originally posted by Skyfloating

Originally posted by LadySkadi
I'm also very disappointed in the "research" that did or did not go into this thread.

You dont need any research to see that many of the kids labeled as "ADHD" are entirely fine...they're just not interested in sitting in a chair and shutting up for 7 hours straight.

You aren't listening or choosing not too. What you are describing is the labeling of children, rather than the determination of whether or not a mental illness/chemical imbalance is real and present. The over-diagnosis is a separate problem. That does not negate that ADHD/ADD is a real and verifiable disorder (that can be managed with care) in many cases, but it DOES exist.

Sorry Sky. ADHD is very real. It's genetic. My mother has it, I have it and 2 of my 3 kids as well. Growing up was a real chore. To control the body with the mind. Now a days they put the kids on drugs. How are they going to learn to control themselves? They wanted to up our daughter drugs and we told them NO! Personally I'd go drug free but I'm not the only parent in this house.

Originally posted by LadySkadi
in many cases, but it DOES exist.

In the cases Ive seen it doesnt exist. Ive seen perfectly normal kids diagnosed as ill and made docile with pills.

If in any case a disorder does exist, then treat it. But being active and having interest in other things than the teacher is not a disorder.

Originally posted by Maybe...maybe not
I believe ADHD is massively over-diagnosed & often used as an excuse for poor parenting of children.

And poor teachers as well. They want the kids to be zombies. Parent usually take teachers at their word. Hey, they're the professionals. Don't. The kids are your and just because some administrator would like to make teaching easier doesn't mean it should happen.

Originally posted by whaaa
Let them stay in the Fog and not learn when they could be helped.

If they improve, thats fine. But if "improvement" means they shut up and sit down and let themselves be indoctrinated, thats no improvement.

Originally posted by Maybe...maybe not

I believe ADHD is massively over-diagnosed & often used an excuse for poor parenting of children.

Or poor schooling.

Or soul-sucking working environments.

Or poor nutrition.

Or lack of exercise.

The reality is that humans have taken many, many milleniums to evolve and the world significantly changed in like a hundred years. There is bound to be a biological repercussion for such rapid change.

We are meant to roam. We are meant to explore. We are meant to move.

Instead, we spend our lives sitting. And having a box inform us instead of searching for answers and experiencing the world ourselves.

Originally posted by kosmicjack

We are meant to roam. We are meant to explore. We are meant to move.

Instead, we spend our lives sitting. And having a box inform us instead of searching for answers and experiencing the world ourselves.

Star from me to you!!

That's why I skipped out on 40+ days yearly in middle and high-school until getting my GED. No truancy, no being held back. They'd put me in the isolated box with a pile of home/class work, and exams that I'd plow through, acing most of the material.

I spent the rest of my time being a hoodlum and really getting an education on how the world works.