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Originally Posted by RealSNR
It exists elsewhere in the world, but the circumstances leading to the diagnosis are often mishandled. I already stated that I think it's way overdiagnosed especially among children.
American parents typically aren't around as much to structure the lives of their kids. This has a significant effect when kids are spending their unstructured time doing whatever they want at home and then getting to school where they have to sit in a desk and get test standards shoved in their ears.
There are differences to explain why America has a problem with the increase, but to say outright that ADD and ADHD don't exist because some hippie says so shows a gap in your logic.
http://www.ncbi. .nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1525089/
http://www.apa.org/monitor/2014/04/adhd.aspx |
First off, I don't think Dr. Eisenberg was a hippie - most hippies aren't into speed
No, seriously - I agree with most all of what you say, but I've studied this stuff in college (sociology, psychology) and I'm convinced it doesn't really exist.
Even though the diagnosis is used to describe a certain set of vaugue "symptoms" that people do exhibit and that the "treatment" works for, there is not a single shred of forensic or psychological evidence that it actually exists. If someone has a chemical imbalance, it shows up in the blood work, then they get Depakote or Lithium/Librium.
And whereas the "symptoms" may be real, Dr. Eisenberg, the man who invented ADHD, did on his death bed come clean that he fabricated said disease. There have been recent documentaries on BBC about ADD. I think the symptoms are very real but if the inventor admits that it was a hoax and he invented it then it seems that maybe something is being misdiagnosed here or misunderstood.*
I thought this was interesting. You can have the symptoms of a fictitious disease but you can't have a fictitious disease.*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K62Te9xbUmQ
I think she raises a few great points that could be considered in an intelligent conversation.