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Originally posted by OptimusSubprime
Originally posted by BlastedCaddy
Most of my clients are diagnosed with ODD. After working with kids for about ten years with this diagnosis I feel it is a crutch label to medicate our children and makes an excuse for lack of parental supervision. By that I do not entirely blame the parents. I blame society as a whole making it impossible to live without duel paychecks. Afterall subbing your parental duties to a low budget daycare will ultimately create greater social/detachment disorders.
I have yet to see it carry over to anyone over the age of 22. The label of ODD that is
That's all I got.edit on 27-8-2012 by BlastedCaddy because: (no reason given)
I agree fully... Ritalin and other drugs are destroying the minds of children, and they are used in place of actual leadership and discipline.
Originally posted by acmpnsfal
Reply to post by ScatterBrain
I feel like parents are to blame for what you are referring to. I mean a child may be diagnosed with ADD but nobody looks at the childs diet. A change in the diet could improve concentration and cut down on hyperactivity. Its the parents job to protect their kids and make sure they are taking the best course of action. Outside of that though, every adult has a choice of treatment. You can seek counseling without seeing a psychiatrist. Most people who are prescribed anti depressants are not expected to stay on them long term. They are usually supposed to provide a boost while counseling handles the dirty work.
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Originally posted by acmpnsfal
Reply to post by redhorse
Ummmmmm. If you study psychology at the graduate level, you have to pick a concentration, that concentration along with your field work and research, will determine what population you end up working with, what type of counseling you practice, etc. All of what you learn is concrete.
So the graduate curriculum is more focused. So what? Undergrad is generalized and utter crap, and graduate school is more focused and still utter crap. Because the whole system (scam) is built upon and encourages junk science that caters to the pocketbooks and agendas of entities that have no interest in actually helping anyone.
Originally posted by acmpnsfal
Reply to post by redhorse
Ummmmmm. If you study psychology at the graduate level, you have to pick a concentration, that concentration along with your field work and research, will determine what population you end up working with, what type of counseling you practice, etc. All of what you learn is concrete. ODD is not an umbrella diagnosis for anything. It just usually occurs with other disorders. Similar to how most people with OCD also have an anxiety disorder.
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I would concur. I think Diet IS important. But it is our schools and how they are structured. Most schools have eliminated things like Recess or outdoor play. I like the Waldorf educational model . I wish I had that when I was a kid. I went to a private school and that was still hard.. and I still ended up getting kicked out
Its my professional opinion, I know for a fact you cannot medicate away Opposition Defiant Disorder. It can only be fixed through counseling as its not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. You have to alter their behavior and thinking. Also, someone who has the credentials to evaluate and diagnose something like this would have had to gone through some type of graduate or doctorate program. Graduate schools are not degree mills.
Originally posted by BlastedCaddy
Most of my clients are diagnosed with ODD. After working with kids for about ten years with this diagnosis I feel it is a crutch label to medicate our children and makes an excuse for lack of parental supervision. By that I do not entirely blame the parents. I blame society as a whole making it impossible to live without duel paychecks. Afterall subbing your parental duties to a low budget daycare will ultimately create greater social/detachment disorders.
I have yet to see it carry over to anyone over the age of 22. The label of ODD that is
That's all I got.edit on 27-8-2012 by BlastedCaddy because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by OptimusSubprime
While digging through various articles on the recent unlawful detainment of veterans like in the Brandon Raub case, I came across the term Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD). Just the name alone activated the alarm bells in my brain, and so I dug a little deeper. ODD is a fairly new "diagnosis" being used to define people who basically go against the grain. This "disorder" is mainly used to identify children with behavioral problems, but what it stopping them from using this diagnosis against people like you and I?
Psychiatrics claim that sufferers have “a recurrent pattern of negativistic, defiant, disobedient, and hostile behavior toward authority figures that persists for at least 6 months” which includes:
Persistent stubbornness
Resistance to directions
Unwillingness to go along with the crowd
Deliberately annoying others
Testing limits by ignoring orders
So anyone standing up against tyranny... anyone standing up against the global banking cartel... and anyone not absolutely submissive to TPTB could be diagnosed with ODD. For those, like me, who are wondering just how exactly "they" will take firearms away from lawful citizens... here is the answer. Get diagnosed with ODD and I bet you fail a background check the next time you attempt to legally purchase a firearm.
ODD
ODD: The War at Home
Intelligent people claim pyschologists suffer "from a compulsive need to subjugate and label non-psychiatrists for the purpose of fiduciary or political gain, to uphold the often incorrect belief that the field of psychology helps those placed under its care. This particular psychological ailment is referred to as Compulsive Dialectical Schadenfreude Disorder (CDSD).
Normal intelligent people claim sufferers have “a recurrent pattern of imagining their evaluations of a person's mental health is unassailable and that medical cocktails—which have resulted in death—are a sound solution towards improving a persons wellbeing. This behavior often persists well after 2 years of professional training and includes:
Unwillingness to listen to patients (voluntary or otherwise)
Resistance to criticism by non-psychologists
Deliberately annoying others
Submits opinion pieces to journals to create an image or veneer of authority
A sense of misplaced intellectual accomplishment, authority, or superiority