Is ADHD made up?

[Bluemoon115]

It's definitely real. However, it's also an overused term.

Like people who have a runny nose and sneeze a couple of times saying they have the flu, people are too quick to say a naughty kid has ADHD. There are some genuinely bad kids who haven't been disciplined or, as with many adults, are just cunts. But that doesn't mean that it's not a real illness.

 

[Latics Fan SJK]

Quite agree...We never had these abreviated conditions back in the seventies when I was bumming everything.

 

[didactic]

It's definitely real. However, it's also an overused term.

Like people who have a runny nose and sneeze a couple of times saying they have the flu, people are too quick to say a naughty kid has ADHD. There are some genuinely bad kids who haven't been disciplined or, as with many adults, are just cunts. But that doesn't mean that it's not a real illness.

Kind of like how the classification of "stress" was abused when it first came out and people were being given months off work due to "stress". We are quick to abuse terms that are difficult to understand to make things easier for ourselves. Now lazy teachers use ADHD to cull their classes of students they do not want to deal with.

The condition is real but not every person labelled as having it does.

 

[Pigeonho]

I'll ask again. OP, do you have a child diagnosed with it?

 

[Bluemoon115]

It's definitely real. However, it's also an overused term.

Like people who have a runny nose and sneeze a couple of times saying they have the flu, people are too quick to say a naughty kid has ADHD. There are some genuinely bad kids who haven't been disciplined or, as with many adults, are just cunts. But that doesn't mean that it's not a real illness.

Kind of like how the classification of "stress" was abused when it first came out and people were being given months off work due to "stress". We are quick to abuse terms that are difficult to understand to make things easier for ourselves. Now lazy teachers use ADHD to cull their classes of students they do not want to deal with.

The condition is real but not every person labelled as having it does.

Exactly.

 

[ChrisNUFC]

 

[Super David Silva 21]

I knew someone who had a kid who was about 13 i think, he said that the kid had this ADHD whatever it is, used to go a bit mental and smash windows in the house.

I just thought he sounded like an arse'ole meself.

 

[brass neck]

Yes its a real condition. Its one of the reasons a child maybe out of control in school along with others like, being dragged up, being abused, being let to do what they want at home, being beaten everyday as disiplin, having no boundries at home, being tired (amazing how many primary kids go to bed at gone 9.30), being fatherless, being un-engaged by the teacher. But bottom line ADD and ADHD are reconised and proven conditions that have a number of theropys some of which are medicinal.

 

[Hamann Pineapple]

Sorry, what did you say ?

 

[another generation]

There are probably loads of adults, me included, who will look back at their childhood and wonder if they would have been diagnosed with ADHD, had it been 'around' then. Impulsiveness, inattention - it's not just hyperactivity. I can't think that a diet of sugary drinks and processed food would help a person with ADHD, but no reason to think that that's all there is behind it.