Is ADHD made up?

[stonerblue]

Coming from someone who was diagnosed at about 10 years old and lived on Ritalin and then Concerta throughout my high school years I would say it is real.. Yes I was a little shit, but nobody can tell me that I didn't want to learn! Teachers who didn't understand it labelled me a troublemaker and basically told each other not to waste there time with me as I couldn't sit and listen in class, so why bother with me. It's a horrible cycle of bad behaviour, then not being trusted from then on, and the most horrible part of it all was that I genuinely did try, but simple things like sitting and listening for 20 minutes I found absolutely impossible. The tablets did work to a certain degree but I found with teachers who did understand and took time to allow me to do practical things rather than listening for half a lesson then working out of a text book for the rest had a much better response.

I remember one teacher of mine (maths) who's methods of teaching were to throw a text book at you and get you to work through it once telling me I would never make anything of myself, i'm glad he motivated me :)

I'm now an engineer, probably earn about the same as he does and don't have to put up with 'naughty' children.

a normal kid then ?

sounds very similar to my schooldays

 

[badmash]

I work with kids who are ADHD

Everyone of them have parents who are themselves fkd. Read into that what you will.
Had 1 parent demand that there kid had it so they could get DLA.

 

[SiMCFC]

Yes normal when the other 29 classmates couldn't stand being in the same room because I couldn't sit quiet whilst they thought nothing of it, really normal I agree, ignorance is bliss but until you have experienced something first hand, it is incredibly difficult to explain.

As a side note if it was normal surely the rest of the class should have been on meds?

 

[Howling Wolf]

Psychologists say its real but we know they do love to make up names for millions of different 'conditions' which in reality are just different personality traits. We can't all be the same, some people don't like being touched by strangers, some dont like being shouted at, some dont like spiders, if you went to a psychologist he'd reel off about 20 things 'wrong' with you.

Pharmaceutical companies make billions off the medication for it thanks to studies done by said psychologists about what the symptoms of someone with ADHD are. The Americans pump their children full of the stuff and many of the children who take it actively say they feel 'dull' and 'subdued' when they take it.

There is no actual evidence to say it exists, have you ever seen an adult with ADHD? It simply doesn't happen because its just kids who eat sugar, go mad, calm down, hormones, some children being more lively than others and bad parenting that means they are out of control that have created the ADHD myth.

If parents actually disciplined their children and controlled their sugar intake etc.. then im sure the levels of 'ADHD' would go down dramatically but in America unfortunately they seem to find giving their kids pills the much easier option.

I remember reading that in Japan, they don't have depression, it isn't something that their Psychologists diagnose, except where people are actually suicidal.

This was annoying the Pharmacutical companies because depression medicide is very very lucrative.

People like to think that they can take a pill to make their problems go away

This is worse in the US because of the relationship between government, pharmacutical companies and the medical industry.

Yet they have one of the worlds highest suicide rates, i wonder what is causing it?

 

[Balti]

there seem to be too many kids too quickly put into this bracket where the underlying problems may have more to do with parenting (or lack of) , diet, lifestyle etc

an excuse for *some* it seems

 

[colourmeblue]

Psychologists say its real but we know they do love to make up names for millions of different 'conditions' which in reality are just different personality traits. We can't all be the same, some people don't like being touched by strangers, some dont like being shouted at, some dont like spiders, if you went to a psychologist he'd reel off about 20 things 'wrong' with you.

Pharmaceutical companies make billions off the medication for it thanks to studies done by said psychologists about what the symptoms of someone with ADHD are. The Americans pump their children full of the stuff and many of the children who take it actively say they feel 'dull' and 'subdued' when they take it.

There is no actual evidence to say it exists, have you ever seen an adult with ADHD? It simply doesn't happen because its just kids who eat sugar, go mad, calm down, hormones, some children being more lively than others and bad parenting that means they are out of control that have created the ADHD myth.

If parents actually disciplined their children and controlled their sugar intake etc.. then im sure the levels of 'ADHD' would go down dramatically but in America unfortunately they seem to find giving their kids pills the much easier option.

I remember reading that in Japan, they don't have depression, it isn't something that their Psychologists diagnose, except where people are actually suicidal.

This was annoying the Pharmacutical companies because depression medicide is very very lucrative.

People like to think that they can take a pill to make their problems go away

This is worse in the US because of the relationship between government, pharmacutical companies and the medical industry.

Yet they have one of the worlds highest suicide rates, i wonder what is causing it?

Look into Japanese culture and you'll find your answer. Its almost considered shameful to have depression or indeed to air any of your ailments.

 

[SiMCFC]

there seem to be too many kids too quickly put into this bracket where the underlying problems may have more to do with parenting (or lack of) , diet, lifestyle etc

an excuse for *some* it seems

All well and good but why then is my sister, who grew up in the same house, same food, same parents, etc the complete opposite albeit being 2 years younger?

 

[Helmet Cole]

I was diagnosed with ADHD but it later turned out that I'm just a ****. I have no underlying medical / psychological condition other than a bit of an inferiority complex due to my tiny genitals and intellect.
I would challenge anyone to put one kid who has ADHD in a room with another who is just a bit of a bell end who has been badly brought up, observe them and try to tell the difference. We continue to give Ritalin to kids with "ADHD" when really it is the parents we should be medicating -in Switzerland, at Dignitas.

This post from earlier in the thread proves conclusively that ADHD is made up as I don't have it. I am thick **** with a little willy though which may go some way to explaining my behaviour and the behaviour of others who also claim to have the made up condition of ADHD.

 

[slicky202]

I'm off this thread. It's definitely the kind of shit that will get me banned as I can feel myself getting wound up already.

So many clueless, clueless twats it's quite worrying really.

you ADHD? Jesus Christ!

 

[Pigeonho]

I'm off this thread. It's definitely the kind of shit that will get me banned as I can feel myself getting wound up already.

So many clueless, clueless twats it's quite worrying really.

you ADHD? Jesus Christ!

No, I just look after my son who is, and the amount of clueless twats posting in here who are exactly that, clueless, is a joke.

Still waiting for De Niro to answer me about his grandkids and what he would do if they couldn't 'do what they're fucking told'.