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To: cinives

No he says psychiatric disease does not exist because it has no visible or measurable physical component . And thats BS.


79 posted on 08/02/2007 9:44:09 AM PDT by Kozak
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To: Kozak

Oh please. Tell me - what physical tests do they give a person to determine ADHD ?

Blood test ? MRI ? PET scan ? Blood sugar test ? A brain fluid tap to test dopamine or seratonin levels ?

No ? None of those things ?

Hmmm -

How do they determine dosage levels ? By a measurement of “chemical imbalance”, or by OBSERVING BEHAVIOR and adjusting drug accordingly ?

ADHD is determined to “exist” by a BEHAVIORAL observation. It’s a list of BEHAVIORS determined by committee to be undesirable. The drugs used to control ADHD behaviors are a trial and error process that are adjusted over months.

If your doctor wanted to treat your diabetes this way, you’d be in court for malpractice. But, obviously, you and others like you think it’s OK to give powerful and life-altering drugs to kids on the basis of how often a kid taps their foot.

THAT’s BS.

So, your objection is what is BS.


117 posted on 08/02/2007 1:08:56 PM PDT by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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