Posted on 02/26/2025 8:43:58 AM PST by Red Badger
Spoken by someone who has never had true ADHD children or grandchildren. Is there abuse by some medical ‘experts’ and misdiagnosis, Hell Yes! Are too many children put on medication because parents and/ or teachers don’t want to or can’t deal with them ? Hell Yes! But that doesn’t mean ADHD doesn’t exist or that there aren’t children whose ADHD who need medication to be able to function properly doesn’t exist or that there aren’t legitimate medications to help them.
This reminds me of the uninformed hysteria over Opioids and the ‘experts’ in the public pontificating that there is no legitimate need for them because they are ‘deadly’ and refuse to recognize that people with severe chronic pain need to take them to just get through the day and get no pleasure out of them.
There is an entire industry that profits from drugging children.
It is disgusting and needs to be shut down.
And still no covid jab action.
I’m going to have to make a special meme for RFK Jr in a number of days...
It's just a theory of mine based on personal experience of how these drugs deaden personality and empathy, and how psychiatrists hand them out like candy for any and all childhood behavioral issues, steadily increasing dosages as the behaviors persist or worsen.
Nonsense, You don’t know what you are talking about. Pill peddler?
Just my opinion but maybe some kids will benefit from the medication. The rest should spend a summer, in a nice camp, without internet or cell phones, chopping wood. They need to experience some of life and brotherhood/sisterhood camaraderie outside of their helicopter parents and their tiny screens.
That was excellent parenting.
Mine is 41. Also a professional who has traveled all over the world.
When she entered college at 16 (she insisted going out of state) her counselor said in his first meeting “I love homeschooled” students.
Disclaimer, she did attend public high school, which required zilch effort.
Wow, my same story, except it was second grade (my son)
Pulled him out to homeschool him. He’s 30 now and doing wonderfully (in life and career). Never needed the drugs, just needed to learn to direct his energy
Adderall is not for people who do not need it. for them it functions as speed, an upper
People who need Adderall do not feel any racy effects. they just are focused, slower and organized.
My son chopped wood and did yard work for about 45 minutes before we began homeschooling seat work each day. Of course we had the normal homeschool abbreviated day, and lots of read aloud time with all four of them.
The NYS Homeschool regulations require instruction to be 5 hours/day, 5 days/week, or the substantial equivalent thereof.
My out, because my kids could get their lessons done in far less time and they knew the material.
NYS guidelines also allow for a teacher to only need to complete 80% of the curriculum.
So on thinking it through, I figured that the goal of the schooling was for them to master the material for that year. If they did that, I considered it *the substantial equivalent thereof*, especially since we always finished the full 100% of the curriculum.
And they had the standardized test scores to prove it.
For part of the year, my kids swam competitively with the local *Y* and while they were swimming and practicing most nights each week, they were very well behaved.
A week after the season was over, you could tell. What a difference getting it out of their systems made.
Not addictive??? You shouldn’t quit without proper psychiatric supervision, or you will go off your rocker, or even die. Not addictive. peee shaw.
My brother was on it, and the “Dogturd” took him ever up and up in dosage. He finally broke, when he was found with a shotgun shooting holes in the floor of his house. He literally had cookie sheets as chest protector, and tin foil under his baseball cap. Claimed Hondurans were under the house and spying on him. He voluntarily committed under family pressure, and now does not use these prescription drugs. Did I forget to mention the rays from space?
As soon as he was clean and sober, all of the insanity was gone. Ritalin, very very dangerous stuff.
My brother, aged 60 was on them for 15 years. I mentioned it in a previous reply.
Bastards just can't help themselves ...
The biggest problem with pharmaceutical companies, is they are allowed to advertise on TV, and in magazines. The pharmaceutical Medical Education system, must be severed.
My theory is brain in head and distributed brain in body.
Moving the muscles worked on brain in body which modulated brain in head
Well, my GI practitioner said that they have found the same neural tissue that is in the brain is in the gut and the connection between the two is the vagas nerve.
So it wouldn’t surprise me to find out there is indeed more *brain* in the body than they realized before.
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