ADHD is one of the most over prescribed “illnesses” ever.
It has become and excuse to make boys behave like girls through drugs.
As someone who actually has ADD (without the H), and who enlisted in the Army, all I needed was a waiver to get in. I never had any thoughts of killing myself, despite getting deployed for Desert Storm. My unit had one guy go AWOL before deployment, and one of our NCOs freaked during an air raid warning and refused to wear her gas mask, but I did fine.
Just to add: frankly, I wouldn’t put ADHD/ADD in the “mental illness” category. Having the disorder doesn’t make you unstable, or incapable of determining reality, or any other debilitating mental state. Certainly there is (in my experience) no aspect of ADHD that makes suicide or self-harm more likely, and none of the more-established medications used in treating the condition enhance the likelihood of such thoughts.
This information will be used to strip them of their gun rights...
Couldn’t this same 1 in 5 be a description for the whole population? Is this a hit piece on the military?
That would account for the number of gay troops, I suppose.
Yeah. According to this regime believing that you were born the wrong gender or are sexually attracted to other men’s effluent tubes is not mental illness but being a Constitutionalist is.
80% of government employees have mental illness. Before and now.
When new guys would report aboard a submarine we used to have a betting pool whether they would make it the first year or crack and either fake an illness or go nuts.
There are people with problems in every field. High amounts of stress usually bring those problems into public view. The military can be very stressfuly.
Gee, I bet that means that can’t own guns now.
Seems to me that the ADHD type would make good NCO and second lieutenant material.
Geez, Winston Churchill had depression and he was a military badass..... although on the other hand many of his comrades did suggest that he enjoyed battle a bit too much, so maybe he was slightly unhinged.
And homos have been declared normal.
ADHD is the diagnosis used to excuse stupefying our kids as the substitute for parenting.
Parenting which is nearly impossible with either both working or one parent families.
I know how they sucked this one out of their thumb.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/adhd.htm
Percent of boys 3-17 years of age ever diagnosed with ADHD: 13.5%
Number of children 3-17 years of age ever diagnosed with ADHD: 5.9 million
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/depression-in-children-and-adolescents/index.shtml
About 11% of adolescents have a depressive disorder by age 18 according to the National Comorbidity Survey-Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A).
*Yep, add them together and that’s around 1 in 5 recruits.*
“Yes Doc, I have considered committing suicide. Can I get back to the rifle range now?”
How can ADD be a mental disorder? There are no set guidelines for diagnosis. A child having difficulty paying attention in a boring class does not have a psychiatric problem. The cattle car overseers with their cookie cutter classrooms on the other hand may have a need for psychiatric intervention. Give a child who cannot pay attention to an English teacher an engine to repair, and you will see their attention span go way up. So what kind of person do you want repairing fighter aircraft engines? The one who reads Beowulf or the one who can take apart and put together any piece of machinery in front of them?
The military is being run by some real nut jobs these days. That is not to say there are not good people in the military. But they are in a bad spot and need prayers to keep up the good fight.
That stat will increase what with homosexuals being actively recruited!