In the absence of any objective medical tests to determine who has ADD or ADHD,doctors rely in part on standardized assessments and the impressions of teachers and guardians while the the administer leaves little room for other causes or aggravating factors such as diet or environment. Hence,diagnosing a child or adolescent with ADD or ADHD is often the outcome,although no organic basis for either disease has yet to be clinically proven. Psychiatrists may then prescribe psychotropic drugs for the children without first without making it clear to parents that these medications can have severe side-effects including insomnia,loss of appetite,headaches,psychotic symptoms and even potentially fatal adverse reactions such as cardiac arrhythmia. And yet despite these dangers,many school systems actually work with government agencies to force parents to drug their children,threatening those who refuse with the prospect of having their children taken from the home unless they cooperate. http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-3609599239524875493 Another good video on Vaccines and the potential health problems they can cause.. http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=6890106663412840646 This must be stopped.... Kids immune systems MUST BE ALLOWED TO DEVELOP NATURALLY (As all ours should)
"They" (whoever they are) want to develop a generation of good little worker bees, totally void of creativity and emotion, regardless that it harms or kills a few in the process.... those harmed wouldn't have been good worker bees anyways [/rant]
My friends all tell me it turns them into a zombie. I'm glad I never was diagnosed with that crap. Its asinine that they throw that speed around like candy. Sent from my DROID RAZR using Tapatalk 2
My husband was given adha medication as a child. As an adult he has no symptoms of adhd and he is always on the same level emotionally with infrequent variations. Never really happy but not sad either. He says he is not depressed. I wonder if the medicine caused this.
To be fair, most psychiatric disorders don't have an objective test. You can't do a blood test for schizophrenia, but trust me, it's pretty obvious when you see it. That being said, I do agree that ADHD is grossly over-diagnosed and we don't know enough about their effects on kids. And taking kids away because their parents wouldn't put them on it is absurd. But keep in mind, there are kids out there who, for whatever reason (usually it's shitty parents, although it's not all environmental) are deeply emotionally disturbed and need at least some short term medication (have you ever met a 10 year old that hears voices telling him to kill himself? I have). And I'm not even going to get started on the stupid vaccine debate, but I'm willing to bet immunologists know more about the immune system than you do.