Posted on 12/17/2013 12:08:46 PM PST by neverdem
You mean “Absent Dad/Husband Disorder”?
My husband and I were married five years before our first child, our son who has ADHD. We are still happily married and because he’s off for 48 hours at a time, my husband is very involved with our children. They even lift with him in the basement weight room. In fact, I can hear the wrestling in his bedroom right now. Our daughter is cheering for whoever is winning.
ADD and ADHD are very real conditions that reflect the progressive loss of fully functional gray matter in the brain. Loss of gray matter is illuminated by mri in toddlers through to Alzheimer’s and other other neurodegenerative diseases. This pathology does not occur in other primates. ADD and ADHD are intermediate states in this progression. The higher incidence in males is related to the fact that testosterone increases the rate of iron retention (excess intracellular iron accumulation in the gray matter of both sexes). This iron accumulation begins with the first bottle of iron fortified formula milk and accelerates at puberty with increasing testosterone production.
kruss3 to wideminded
Your Science posting is “spot on” but the author for the magazine article may have missed the insights of the researchers entirely. Progressive Brain Iron loading is an accepted fact and acknowledged by these researchers. There is a monstrous paradox here. The dopaminergic cells within the substantia nigra pars compacta appear to be iron loaded within the cytosol with lipofuscin bound iron that contributes nothing the to the ordinary function of iron in catalyzing the formation of dopamine and the other neural transmitters. Lipofuscin bound iron may comprise up to 60% of the total cell weight before the cells dies. Dosing these cells with iron will produce more neural transmitters at the cost of accelerating the aging of these cells. The hypothesized iron deficiency is related to the ongoing deficient insulin mediated uptake of transferrin bound iron that is able to routinely catalyze the neural transmitters. This iron will be dribbled out of an iron replete liver every night for five years or more from a modern human (iron replete) who consumes no iron in his diet for the next five years. Our daily iron losses are believed to be about one mg and we can store up to 35 grams of excess iron in our liver and other tissues.
http://www.ajnr.org/content/33/9/1810.long
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24080959
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22392846
MFC is sensitive to brain iron in GM regions and detects age-related iron increases known to occur from adolescence to adulthood. MFC may be more sensitive than R2 to iron-related changes occurring within specific brain regions.
During typical development and aging, brain iron concentration is extremely low at birth but progressively accumulates until the end of the fourth decade of life with varying rates depending on the region. Starting from the first few years of life, the highest iron concentrations occur in the basal ganglia.
In Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases, regional elevations in iron concentration are found, whereas iron is deficient in restless legs syndrome as well as in preliminary findings on attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (8 – 11).
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3371302/#R
The New York Times points out that the American Psychiatric Association criteria for ADHD include “often has difficulty waiting his or her turn” and “makes careless mistakes,”
Heck, I see this in traffic everyday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/health/the-selling-of-attention-deficit-disorder.html?_r=0
The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder - the NYT article referenced in the article.
Sesame Street. With the subject changing every 30 seconds.
There are adults suddenly getting themselves diagnosed too, presumably for the disability benefits or other concessions.
Never underestimate the creativity of women to get what they want....
ADHD was created so single women could keep their kids on a schedule.
They killed recesses to save insurance costs! That’s a major contributor to ‘ADHD’. When I was a kid we had a minimum of two recesses a day. A 30 min. at 10:30 and a 45 min. at 12:30 after lunch. They were unsupervised on open playgrounds with large asphalt areas, swings and what not. Kids would check out balls, bats, etc. to play during recess. Kickball, baseball, hide and seek, tag, races, etc. were all handled by the kids. One teacher was assigned to watch over the kids, basically, to minimize blood loss.
Now my son laments to me how he doesn’t have recess and school is ‘just for girls’. He’s right. They’ve done away with what boys, and girls too need. Vigorous exercise and free-association gaming.
Without a doubt, this is one of the major benefits of homeschooling. Kids can sleep in or take naps as needed.
Many children are deeply sleep deprived and are basically being given speed to deal with it.
“Never underestimate the creativity of women to get what they want....”
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I kinda reckon that’ud be tough advice to follow seein’ as how there ain’t no way to OVER estimate it, it bein’ limitless and all that!
Let’s just say I was using “creativity” as a synonym for less savory terms relating to pathological self-interest.
After all, we are talking about the segment of the population that consistently tries to cloud the fact and evade the responsibility that only they can legally obtain the death of their own children.
IMHO, and to be incredibly politically incorrect, I believe a lot of this can be traced to the disappearance of corporal punishment.
When I was a kid and before I could be trusted to make reasonably correct decisions, I was usually good because I lived in fear of what would happen if I wasn’t. And it worked, as it always has for centuries.
Again, IMHO, much of this problem could be solved by, as my Dad used to say, “the application of the hand of wisdom to the seat of knowledge.”
It seems to me that today there’s a serious lack of behavioral consequences.
Video immersion, lack of real punishments, constant fructose intake, rapid fire enticements, low sleep, low exercise, low expectations.
In other words you were being creative?
Kids with ADHD get extra benefits ... or “mom” gets ‘em...
This, and what you described in reference to the use of pharmacology histories being used to deny fundamental rights (especially the RKBA) have been stated goals of the gun grabbers for a while.
The truly 'paranoid' will not seek medical aid if they need it because of the consequences, although many will get caught up in the sweep with millions who were hastily diagnosed as either a means to more income for someone or a matter of convenience.
Children are naturally rambunctious, curious, and often seem a little scatterbrained because there is so incredibly much to learn about. They're fascinated.
Medicating that out of them is criminal, teaching them self discipline is hard, and requires parental attention, something a horribly self-involved society has little time for, especially when we live in a world replete with things designed to grab your attention (TV, radio, ipod, advertising, are all in constant competition to sell you something, from a car to an idea.)
It is hard to get away from the hustle and bustle for an adult, imagine being in a room full of other children who are competing likewise for the attention of the adults around them.
Statistically, the little New England town of Stepford has the highest percentage of prescriptions filled.
I barely made it through the title, never mind the article...
Of course not! Other countries don't have:
Bush
Republicans
Tea Party
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