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Get your kids off this crap! Be sure to get this info out far and wide!

And then what? Seriously? I will say Ritalin is over prescribed and ADD ADHD is Highly Misdiagnosed Not Over Diagnosed. A true ADD ADHD kid or ADHD adult will benefit from Ritalin. Many more though are not and Ritalin is of no value. There are many simuliar disorders that fit ADD ADHD behavioral patterns and in fact are not ADD ADHD.

Make the shrink the last stop. Make an Audiologist one of the first after the family GP. Sensory Processing Disorders probably account for the high percentage of ADD ADHD diagnoses increases we now see. The reason being is there are now far more triggering devices for these disorders than there was in the pre 1980's. A child or adult with medical histories of allergies or chronic ear infections are prime canidates for these type disorders. They are treatable in such that you treat the damaging cause to limit further problems.

You are quite right to say this. Many disorders produce in children symptoms of "ADHD" such as the auditory one you mentioned. We have to keep in mind that a child's only reference to his world may be disordered and that may produce anxiety symptoms which are quickly diagnosed as ADHD. Many children come from such chaotic backgrounds and stressful situations that the childs normal response of anxiety is quickly attributed to a medicable disorder. Sad. There are hyperactive kids with this disorder, but I think it is truly rare and uniquely responsive to medication. What happens when so many kids are medicated is that the adults perception of the kids behaviour improves and the kid responds to the positive feedback he gets from the adults and he is assumed to be "responding to treatment."

Disclaimer: I do believe there are real cases of ADHD, but it has become a convenient excuse for many other things.<p. regards

You know... I'm begining to think that you work for Eli Lilly. You sure do jump on every single anti-psych drug thread that comes across Free Repubic and try to convince us that taking drugs is okay... as long as a quack... oops... I mean psych... gives them to you. I think that you get paid to do this.