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I’m so damn tired of seeing this crap called “medication”. There’s nothing remotely medical about ADHD.

Debate all you want about whether kids should get the medication. I can assure you however, that ADHD is very real. And I consider mental illness to be very medical. The worry, care, and frustration that accompanies having a child with ADHD/ODD encompasses almost every waking moment of every day for a parent.

I am a parent of an ADHD/ODD child and three "normal" (at least non-ADHD) kids. I once considered myself a huge skeptic of the entire idea. I was wrong. I was very wrong.

You Do have my sympathy that your child is in the spot they’re in and you are in the spot you’re in because of it.

Brain Scans?
http://psychrights.org/articles/GEJacksonMDBrainScanCuriousConsensus.pdf
Smoke and Mirrors

Genetics? It’s above. Nothing there. and since there’s Nothing to the genetic ruse then there’s Nothing to the Chemical Brain Imbalance ruse either.

Psychiatric drugs are an option?
http://jannel.se/suicide.psychiatricdrugs.pdf
No.

Debate all you want? There is Nothing to debate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison

Edison is the fourth most prolific inventor in history, holding 1,093 US patents in his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany.

In school, the young Edison’s mind often wandered, and his teacher, the Reverend Engle, was overheard calling him “addled”. This ended Edison’s three months of official schooling.

Edison would be diagnosed and drugged today in a heartbeat, 1,093 patents.
Medically Sick? Not hardly.

ADHD is not a medical disease and trying to drug it into submission is a horrible mistake.

http://www.ritalindeath.com/

The boy killed by ADHD treatment on that site was diagnosed as having a medical disorder based on a 5 minute pencil twirling trick.

“And I consider mental illness to be very medical.”

So does the nation’s largest patient advocacy group, NAMI.
http://www.nami.org:80/Template.cfm?Section=Major_Foundation_and_Corporate_Support
81% of their financial support if from the makers of mental illness drugs, and the finances of most other support groups, like DBSA, tells a similar story and agenda.

Like I said you do have my sympathy but drugs are not going to fix your child or actually help your child. Follow the money.