[rlmorel]

Thank God I am not growing up today.

Today, they would have slammed those drugs in me so fast it would have made my head spin.

I simply do not believe it is a real disorder. I think it is kids being kids. Do kids get hyperactive? You bet. Do kids get depressed? Absolutely. I just do not believe it is a real "disorder". I think it is an excuse to drug kids to keep them in line.

Just my opinion.

[Psycho_Bunny]

The even more amazing thing is that there was no such thing as "clinical depression" until it was labeled as such.

 

[metmom]

I think it is an excuse to drug kids to keep them in line.

I think that having kids grow up on farms where they got a good chance to burn off all that excess energy milking cows, throwing around bails of hay, chopping wood, gardening, fishing, etc. would cure what's wrong with a lot of kids. Shoving a child that's meant to move ( all of them in fact) into an artificial environment where they are required to sit still for long periods of time INDOORS is a recipe for disaster. Small wonder there's problems.

I wonder what the incidence of kids diagnosed with ADD and ADHD is for farm kids or homeschooled kids?