FUCK THE POLICE (03-11-2014)
- After 50 years in practice Dr Saul says there is no such thing as ADHD
- Improving your diet, exercising and sleeping more can alleviate symptoms
By Dr Richard Saul
PUBLISHED: 00:26, 11 March 2014 | UPDATED: 08:23, 11 March 2014
Distracted, fidgeting and squirming in his seat, the 13-year-old boy in my consulting room was exhibiting all the classic signs of an attention disorder. His desperate mother hoped that I could do something for her son, who had become sluggish and unfocused at school, did not seem to care that his academic performance was declining, and claimed to feel 'too tired' for sport, which he used to enjoy. He had been diagnosed with ADHD - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - and been taking medication for a year but, to the despair of his teachers and mother, his behaviour had not improved at all.
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FUCK THE POLICE (03-11-2014)
Truth Detector (03-11-2014)
Deficit parents exist as the sole cause!
Many parents are using the kids to get the drugs.
By the millions
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I can tell you I have it. I was diagnosed my junior year in high school and first took medication my senior year in college. Made all the difference in the world to me. My uncle has ADD and so does my grandfather.
Now I realize there are many hyper (normal) kids who instantly get diagnosed with ADHD and are put on medication to try and calm them down and that over diagnosis seems to be a problem. But to say it doesn't exist?
Annie (03-11-2014), christiefan915 (03-11-2014)
From the article.
Distracted, fidgeting and squirming in his seat, the 13-year-old boy in my consulting room was exhibiting all the classic signs of an attention disorder. His desperate mother hoped that I could do something for her son, who had become sluggish and unfocused at school, did not seem to care that his academic performance was declining, and claimed to feel 'too tired' for sport, which he used to enjoy. He had been diagnosed with ADHD - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - and been taking medication for a year but, to the despair of his teachers and mother, his behaviour had not improved at all.
I was not at all surprised. Why? Because, after 50 years of practising medicine and seeing thousands of patients demonstrating symptoms of ADHD, I have reached the conclusion there is no such thing as ADHD. This so-called condition has apparently spread like wildfire across the globe in recent years, with a huge increase in its diagnosis and medication. More than 4 per cent of adults and 11 per cent of children in the U.S. have been diagnosed with ADHD - a leap of more than 40 per cent in the past decade. It's now the most common mental health disorder in the UK and affects around 2 to 5 per cent of school-age children.
The Dude (03-11-2014)
Quote from Cypress:
"Scientists don't use "averages". Maybe armchair supertools on message boards ascribe some meaning to "averages" between two random data points. And maybe clueless amatuers "draw a straight line" through two random end data points to define a "trend". Experts don't.
They use mean annual and five year means in trend analysis. Don't tell me I have to explain the difference to you. "
Minister of Truth (03-12-2014)
It's a whimsy kid pill!
Listen just cause rainbows don't shoot out of your ass daily!
Doesn't mean you need a drug.
FUCK THE POLICE (03-11-2014), The Dude (03-11-2014)
Agree with OP. Made up disease used by teachers and parents to absolve them of responsibility.
Sad what they have created. Drug addled yutes that can't care for themselves. All the better for the gobblement to coddle.
I weep for the future of our once great country
Truth Detector (03-11-2014)
ADD and ADHD do exist. Are they over diagnosed and are the drugs over prescribed? Yes.
Truth is that most boys are much more 'fidgety' than most girls, that's normal and nothing maturity won't take care of. Too many teachers and some parents are looking for ways to medically make boys' behaviors more 'manageable' like girls. Not a good idea.
Some boys, more girls like to 'day dream' and it's often difficult to get their attention. Again, not usually something that calls for medication, but rather preferential seating and extra curricular activities that they are really interested in. Channeling the 'day dreaming' into reading choices and writing exercises is one way to 'use up' that tendency, leaving them able to deal with the more mundane subjects that are difficult for them to concentrate on.
Then there are those kids whom are overwhelmed and overwhelming in their activity levels and/or focusing issues. Stimulants tend to help, drastically. Whether or not they are 'effective' can be noticed within 24 hours of administering. Fine tuning the levels can take months, but is very beneficial academically, socially, and for home environment.
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Cancel 2016.11 (03-11-2014), christiefan915 (03-11-2014), reverendlionelblair (03-12-2014)
Well, you've been cured by the internet now Cawacko! You stupid dummy, running around claiming you have something that doesn't even exist all these years.
Little known fact of modern life; when you think you have a condition, or, even like if you fall and break a leg, consult dudes on the internet because it very likely could be you didn't break your leg at all. Tom is going to start a new blog "Ask Jenny". In the future, take your medical concerns there before making a damned fool of yourself by consulting some doctor, who could even be a lady doctor and then you are really fucked.
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Annie (03-11-2014), christiefan915 (03-11-2014), Minister of Truth (03-12-2014)
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
I've actually sat at two different dinners with people I've just met who have claimed that ADD doesn't exist and I don't have it. Kind of interesting dynamic I thought that they wanted to argue to my face it was all made up like I was a personal affront to their belief system or something. Regardless I know it's in my family and for me taking medication has made all the positive difference in the world.
Annie (03-11-2014), christiefan915 (03-11-2014)
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