and! in the slave days..."nigger" meant a black person. so yes my statement is true. Sent from my LGL86C using Grasscity Forum mobile app
There is a specific diet (forgot the name) that some suggests helps if not eliminates ADD/ADHD in children. It cuts out artificial flavoring, preservatives, and food coloring. Also probably smart to cut out or reduce sugar, mainly refined, from your diet. Not an expert but the first place I look if Im having a problem is my diet. Also proper sleep and exercise is important for good mental health
even with this extremely hyper active kids aren't affected. tried the duet...I remember being right and thinking "I can't have a fireball because of red dye?" but it's what was suggested for me, and didn't help. I'm naturally super hyperactive. can't help it. Ritalin made it worse, the diet didn't help, my mom beating me because of this caused social problems, adderall made me drowsy, got in school suspension for sleeping so much. essentially took myself off and learned to live with it. granted I feel I was more immature/not as popular in school than most because of this. especially until I grew up a little...it's not something everyone can help. I can do a gram of cocaine and act the same way I did before because I'm just high strung. I wish I wasn't but I am. see ya thread... Sent from my LGL86C using Grasscity Forum mobile app
I was diagnosed with add myself. The very name is self explanatory. Attention deficit disorder. it's a purely environmental "disorder". The vast majority of people with "add" are misdiagnosed to begin with.
Right there in bold. You have annihilated your own point. Earlier you said your parents were loving and playful. Loving playful parents dont strike their children for having an illness.
I meant my parents taught me sports, took me to practice, games, hikes, playing in the snow, but they didn't understand that wasn't enough for me and I acted up still at home...then yes they would strike me. love you smokehound. you're cool as fo. but once again, someone generalizing what I'm saying and turning phrases to fit what they are saying. Sent from my LGL86C using Grasscity Forum mobile app
\tThe Man Who Discovered ADHD Makes a Startling RevelationPosted by Enoch Tan The Man Who Discovered ADHD Makes a Startling Revelation “ADHD is a prime example of a fictitious disease.†These were the words of Leon Eisenberg, the “scientific father of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder),†in his last interview he gave before his death at age 87 in 2009. (While some have described Dr. Eisenberg's statement as an “exaggeration,†many doctors are coming to the belated conclusion that ADHD is often “over diagnosed†by the use of “fuzzy diagnostic practices.†Harvard psychologist Jerome Kagan, who is one of the world's leading experts in child development, states: “Let's go back 50 years. We have a 7-year-old child who is bored in school and disrupts classes. Back then, he was called lazy. Today, he is said to suffer from ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). . . . Every child who's not doing well in school is sent to see a pediatrician, and the pediatrician says: “It's ADHD; here's Ritalin.†In fact, 90 percent of these 5.4 million kids don't have an abnormal dopamine metabolism. The problem is, if a drug is available to doctors, they'll make the corresponding diagnosis.) Eisenberg made a luxurious living off of his “fictitious disease,†thanks to pharmaceutical sales. Coincidentally, he received the “Ruane Prize for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Research. He has been a leader in child psychiatry for more than 40 years through his work in pharmacological trials, research, teaching, and social policy and for his theories of autism and social medicine,†according to Psychiatric News. Yes, it was even admitted that they are his THEORIES. The medical industry is using the guise of helping children to depersonalize and disconnect our children from a healthy, normal upbringing. Parents are placing their children on these drugs and subjecting them to what the world has to offer, when in fact all these children are looking for is their parents in hopes of being the blessing that God intended them to be. In the United States, 1 out of 10 boys among 10-year-olds takes medication for ADHD on a daily basis . . . with increasing tendency. American psychologist Lisa Cosgrove and others reveal the facts in their study “Financial Ties between DSM-IV Panel Members and the Pharmaceutical Industry.†They found that “of the 170 DSM panel members 95 (56 percent) had one or more financial associations with companies in the pharmaceutical industry. One hundred percent of the members of the panels on ‘Mood Disorders' and ‘Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders' had financial ties to drug companies.†And they are reaping major benefits from this “fictitious disease.†For example, the assistant director of the Pediatric Psychopharmacology Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and associate professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School received “$1 million in earnings from drug companies between 2000 and 2007.†Marc-André Gagnon and Joel Lexchin, a long-time researcher of pharmaceutical promotion, performed a study which shows that the U.S. pharmaceutical industry spent 24.4 percent of the sales dollar on promotion, versus 13.4 percent for research and development in 2004. That is almost twice as much money to push their drugs on people than the amount to research to make sure it they're safe! This raises the following question: Are they safe? Read the antidepressant black-box warning for yourselves, and you will be alarmed by the side effects listed on the inserts: – Confusion – Depersonalization – Hostility – Hallucinations – Manic reactions – Suicidal ideation – Loss of consciousness – Delusions – Feeling drunk – Alcohol abuse – Homicidal ideation Why would parents subject their children to drugs with such noted dangerous side effects? Dr. Edward C. Hamlyn, a founding member of the Royal College of General Practitioners, in 1998 stated, “ADHD is fraud intended to justify starting children on a life of drug addiction.†- Source: http://politicaloutcast.com/2013/05/the-fictitious-disease-called-adhd/
took Ritalin and adderall for years...never felt any of those tendencies. not saying they don't exist. but I lost weight and slept most of my high school career. side effects are limited. Sent from my LGL86C using Grasscity Forum mobile app
The guy who "invented" ADHD didn't really say it's a fake disease, more so commenting on how it's a real thing for some, but going to get blown out of proportion and overused for the majority.. and I'd say he was right. http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/adhd.asp Basically the dude put a lot of research into the subject, saw that it's a real thing, but was also didn't like how doctors (and parents) would be so quick to just write it off and grab the pills rather than actually work on the problem.