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03-13-2014, 03:13 AM
I remember as a child in the 1980's, only one boy in my entire class of about 30 boys had to take ADHD pills. And we had 4 recesses a day, so the boys could get out and be active as boys are supposed to be.
Today the kids get like one recess and are over prescribed these pills making big pharma richer and causing lord knows what kind of long term damage to these boys.
More and more, I simply do not want to raise kids in the USA. Just seems like a bad place to raise a family.
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03-13-2014, 03:29 AM
The system is so badly constructed. False premises made upon false premises.
The schooling system is a horrible half-prison for children that destroys their creativity and right hemisphere thinking, while giving little in terms of real knowledge in return. Mixed sex classes are disastrous for boys who are forced to behave like girls.
On top of this behemoth of fallacies west now has this drugging system to force children to bend to this torture. In a progression of lies, society has make the lie of schooling system being effective a dogma and then it needs to invent drugs to make children comply with this schooling system because it goes against dogma that boys would be naturally ill suited for sitting in school desks for best part of the day. So naturally the must be declared sick and treated with drugs.
Mainstream world is nothing but layers and layers of lies build upon layers of lies.
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03-13-2014, 04:21 AM
I have always said that ADHD is just a shitty parents excuse for not beating their childs ass.
The less fucks you give, the more fucks you get.
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03-13-2014, 04:59 AM
I've prescribed ritalin.
Generally, the best child to give ritalin to is the family that really doesn't want ritalin. A lot of families go through a hell of a lot of dietary and lifestyle changes in order to accommodate their child and it's only when the child is clearly failing at studying that they reluctantly ask for a prescription. I generally also ask the child what they want - kids are often wiser than we give them credit for, and they often understand exactly what they are getting into and what the medication is supposed to achieve.
It's a very bad idea to give ritalin to a family that is enthusiastic about the idea. There are usually other problems that need to be addressed, and the parents are usually not alright themselves. You have to be a healthy parent (physically and mentally) in order to have healthy kids, as a rule of thumb.
In a person with ADHD, with actual abnormalities of brain structure that lead to impulse control problems, ritalin is non-addictive. These kids grow up into responsible adults who use ritalin only on an as-needed basis, when studying for an exam or something like that. They usually go into field of work that suits them and their shortened attention spans and their need to move. It's like giving morphine for severe pain - when there is genuine pain present, morphine is almost never addictive. It's only addictive in the absence of pain.
In people without ADHD, giving them ritalin appears to cause a euphoric effect that predisposes them to a lot of problems later in life, and can potentially be the precursor/gateway drug to a lifelong addiction problem.
Ritalin at one point was fashionable and was terribly overprescribed and people's lives damaged, but thankfully ritalin is no longer fashionable and many people, in my community at least, are too embarrassed to openly talk about ritalin. Indeed, having a kid on ritalin is in my community is equated with bad parenting, a prejudice which is sometimes true, but often not.
In appropriate circumstances at low doses, ritalin has really helped some kids, especially when the lifestyle has been adequately addressed (and a healthy lifestyle is, I believe, a prerequisite to having a good response to ritalin in the first place).
Of course, the greater problem is that society is structured around regimented institutions such as schools and corporate workplaces, but I can only help my patients adapt to the environment, I don't have much control over their environmental circumstances.
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03-13-2014, 09:47 AM
Came to this conclusion a while ago after working extensively with people/families under the ADD/ADHD label.
I call it Absentee Dad Disorder (physically or emotionally).
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03-13-2014, 10:01 AM
This post makes me think of something else medically related: the different standards of care between countries, and I'm not talking about US vs. 3rd world shit hole, but US vs. Germany, or US vs. France, for example. I stumbled upon the blog of an Canadian girl who ended up marrying a German guy, and she was relating her experiences of being hospitalized in Germany as compared to Canada....I think she may have broken a leg or something...it was not life threatening. It was really interesting how Germans view privacy, follow-up care, even the kind of crutches they use in Germany are different.
Does anyone know of a source that does this kind of comparison for commonly seen medical conditions?
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03-13-2014, 10:40 AM
Quote: (03-13-2014 10:01 AM)Menace Wrote:
This post makes me think of something else medically related: the different standards of care between countries, and I'm not talking about US vs. 3rd world shit hole, but US vs. Germany, or US vs. France, for example. I stumbled upon the blog of an Canadian girl who ended up marrying a German guy, and she was relating her experiences of being hospitalized in Germany as compared to Canada....I think she may have broken a leg or something...it was not life threatening. It was really interesting how Germans view privacy, follow-up care, even the kind of crutches they use in Germany are different.
Does anyone know of a source that does this kind of comparison for commonly seen medical conditions?
can you post a link for that blog?
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03-13-2014, 12:40 PM
Now autism is the new ADHD. They called my son ADHD back in '01. I was the same as him in school but they just called me a pain in the ass.
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03-13-2014, 09:15 PM
The next time someone complains about how society is keeping girls down with words (see: Ban Bossy) remind them that society has taken to medicating boys.
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03-13-2014, 09:45 PM
Nutrition is huge, when your "breakfast" consists of a plain cream cheese bagel stuffed with hot cheetos, there's no way in hell everything is okay chemically in your body.
A big portion of it, too, is a bit of a cop out excuse a lot of swpl type parents make for their kid not being that smart to begin with. A big game of "It's NOT MY FAULT" really.
The real game changer was the changing expectations of boys. Years ago they tracked the "troublesome" one into woodshop classes taught by the teachers with the best ability to keep them in line, usually a football coach. Now they get pushed into double-block english classes with an inexperienced female teacher and it's a surprise to me that the suicide rate in this country is as low as it is.
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03-14-2014, 04:34 AM
No shit its in the diet!
... Behaving like a cunt that is.
You give any kid some ice cream, cookies, soft drink and just what them turn into little shits that wont stop running around, screaming and fucking shit up.
If I ever have a kid, I'm not going to let it have sugar until its like... 15.
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03-15-2014, 01:46 AM
Quote: (03-14-2014 07:32 AM)Moma Wrote:
Quote: (03-14-2014 04:38 AM)Thomas the Rhymer Wrote:
I know a few parents who basically have refused to feed their kids sugary stuff, and by age 7/8 these kids actually have an aversion to sweets. I think their brains end up being wired differently, they don't perceive strong sweetness as being pleasant.
Are we talking about fructose or sucrose, Thomas? How does fructose fair on the human brain? Same opiate effect or different?
haha.. you are asking a doctor about nutrition ?
might as well ask a politician what a balance sheet looks like while you are at it
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03-16-2014, 03:52 AM
Kids are not meant to sit inside for 8 hours a day studying. Especially when what they are teaching could easily be condensed into less than half of that time.
Schools are sheep factories, churning out brainwashed clones to contribute to the economy and not disrupt the status quo.
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03-16-2014, 02:24 PM
I'll tell my story and share my thoughts.
When I was 20 and in college, a classmate described her condition to me, ADHD. A lot of what she described sounded very familiar. I did some more research and started to understand a few new things about myself.
I grew up in a pretty healthy family. Money was always tight, so there weren't a lot of cool Christmas gifts, but my parents spend what little money they did have on proper nutrition and there was one movie a week, which we watched as a family and no video games.
When we did get a computer, I used it to create my own programs and didn't spend hours playing games.
I'd say that my childhood was very healthy, at least compared to literally all my peers.
And yet, somehow I had enough ADHD symptoms to clearly fit the definition of the condition.
I hadn't been an out of control child. I'd just daydreamed a lot and struggled to complete tasks.
The conclusion that I've come to is that ADHD/ADD is an umbrella that probably covers a whole lot things that probably shouldn't fall into the same category.
I'm not sure if poor parenting causes some forms of ADHD/ADD or if it just aggravates the condition.
In my family's case, despite parents who basically sacrificed their own goals and happiness for their five children, three of us have been diagnosed with ADHD/ADD.
My speculation is that in the extreme cases, it is a disorder. But for most people, it is just a different way for a brain to be setup.
Unfortunately, this type of brain doesn't exist well in a society where we sit children in neat rows five days a week for the first 22 years of their life.
Most of congress is believed to fall within the bounds of ADHD/ADD and they've been saying that long before the current gridlock occurred.
When 25% of people have a "condition" I think it's time to accept that it may simply be a facet of humanity.
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