ADHD - Is it real
ADHD Diagnosis of Children
As long as there have been youngsters there have been grownups trying to label them and place them into groups This has never been more evident than in the over diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ADHD. The motives behind drugging children excessively are the key to understanding why the diagnosis is so prominent.
This grouping is not done for the well-being of the kids, but rather so that programs and agendas of adults could be followed and the behavior of children could be simply streamlined into the types of behavior that is going to be acceptable. Today if a student in school has a hard time paying attention or acting calmly all the time then they are labeled as ADHD and medicated into obedience.
American society is determined to remove as much of the individual as possible as children move through the educational system.
Is medicating children with ADHD right?
Take a moment and really lo ok at the symptoms of ADHD, they involve such things as having trouble focusing, not following directions well and even daydreaming too much. Last I checked that just about includes all children everywhere. This is how the creative process works and to systematically seek to destroy this ability in an entire generation seems misguided in the best of lights and diabolical in the worst of them.In fact, if you looked at some of the greatest thinkers of our time as children they would have displayed these symptoms. Yet in American society, these traits are viewed as a problem, diagnosed and then drugs are used to modify behavior. All children in the history of mankind have exhibited similar symptoms and they went on to very productive lives.
Medication is not a cure
There are a lot of great reasons to medicate people. If there is no other way to cure a physical ailment then the introduction of medicine into a system seems an appropriate action. However when an otherwise healthy person is medicated because someone
As long as there have been youngsters there have been grownups trying to label them and place them into groups This has never been more evident than in the over diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ADHD. The motives behind drugging children excessively are the key to understanding why the diagnosis is so prominent.
This grouping is not done for the well-being of the kids, but rather so that programs and agendas of adults could be followed and the behavior of children could be simply streamlined into the types of behavior that is going to be acceptable. Today if a student in school has a hard time paying attention or acting calmly all the time then they are labeled as ADHD and medicated into obedience.
American society is determined to remove as much of the individual as possible as children move through the educational system.
Is medicating children with ADHD right?
Take a moment and really lo ok at the symptoms of ADHD, they involve such things as having trouble focusing, not following directions well and even daydreaming too much. Last I checked that just about includes all children everywhere. This is how the creative process works and to systematically seek to destroy this ability in an entire generation seems misguided in the best of lights and diabolical in the worst of them.In fact, if you looked at some of the greatest thinkers of our time as children they would have displayed these symptoms. Yet in American society, these traits are viewed as a problem, diagnosed and then drugs are used to modify behavior. All children in the history of mankind have exhibited similar symptoms and they went on to very productive lives.
Medication is not a cure
There are a lot of great reasons to medicate people. If there is no other way to cure a physical ailment then the introduction of medicine into a system seems an appropriate action. However when an otherwise healthy person is medicated because someone
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