[lurk]

Cultural/spiritual.

People and kids need good nutrition, structure, discipline, love, consistent sleep and two parents devoted to each other and their family.

Limits on sugar, TV and electronic devices is crucial.

Guess what kind of environment ADHD kids come from?

[cva66snipe]

They're mistaking ADHD for a group of learning disorders triggered by such things as sinus allergies, chronic ear infections etc. IOW the more humid North Carolina like Eastern Tennessee is a hot bed for allergies which lead to Vestibular Damage which can mimic ADD ADHD symptoms both in behavior and learning issues at it effects concentration as well.

They need to get Audiologist and Speech Pathologist trained to test for C.A.P.D. involved in the study and the ADD ADHD numbers will likely drop like a rock.

[SatinDoll]

Tests have proved that ADHD has a peculiar outcome: the usual self-pruning of neural networks that are not used at the child’s maturity is delayed sometimes for as long as 5 or 6 years. In other words, it is a means to grow brain power.

Keep kids moving. Exercise is important to work off all that energy. Make serious efforts to discourage the use of tobacco, drugs, and alcohol before age 25, as use can effect behavior due to premature destruction of neural networks.

Note: read this quite some time ago. Don’t ask for a reference as it was destroyed the last time my CPU was hacked.

[Sacajaweau]

We got all the wiggle worms (ADHD) on drugs.

Then we went for the shy and quiet ones (autism).

I think most of the cases are normal kids.

One of my friends was told their daughter had ADHD and the school wanted her on meds. He told the school to go to hell. She's a doctor today.

Another wiggle worm boy about7...school said ADHD...Mother said you're nuts. Put him in another school.

And more recently, diagnosed with autism....grandma finally went in with the daughter and told the school they were nuts. He's shy...he's young....so what...he's quite normal.

[PistolPaknMama]

Whatever happened to "Go outside and find something to do!" Kids used to play, and play hard, and used their imaginations to invent new surroundings and situations. Like we used to play war and cops and robbers and build forts and tree houses. Now everything is almost sterile via government school, ipads, computers, television. All the things that made up "being a kid" has just turned into a mind numbing existence and there's a real kid in there that wants out.

The sad thing, for me at least, is that most of these boys are just being boys, but the psychobabblers have to give them a designer ailment so they can treat them ad nauseum. That's how they get paid.

[ChildOfThe60s]

A huge Effin load of crap. Period.

This is lazy, incompetent bureaucrats, teachers and parents using the pharmacological approach to behavior modification.

To put it simply, drug the kids into submission.

And these drugs are destroying the lives of these children when they reach adulthood.

I have dealt with the school system and seen this sh1t first hand. This is nothing less than criminal child abuse.

Hope I’m not being too subtle.

[yldstrk]

it’s total bullshit created to sell medication

Adderral has ruined many lives

[Wuli]

ADHD is not in and of itself a single condition anymore - the raft of “symptoms” that can be applied to a finding of
ADHD include many things that may be caused by many other independent - non ADHD causes, and ADHD is not from any one single cause and often the diagnosis is wrong with behaviors might be found with ADHD but in reality, in many cases, can be JUST a behavioral issue

people are often diagnosed as having “ADHD” when they actually have vision problems, speech problems, bi-polar disorder and a whole raft of independently treatable issues

but, the kid “acts up” all the time in school

the school forces the parents to have the schools psychological consult diagnose the kid, and wham bam
the school says its ADHD and demanads the kid be put on ritalin