
Perhaps pills shouldn’t be the go-to panacea.
Annie Holmquist | March 10, 2016
When it comes to hyperactivity disorders such as ADHD, there’s no debate that diagnoses are on the rise amongst America’s youth.
What is debated, however, is the best way to treat ADHD.
Until recently, it seemed that thrusting a pill at children was the standard treatment. But more experts are beginning to wonder if some ADHD cases can be reduced through efforts like behavioral modification therapy. Others are wondering if children just need time to grow and mature.
A new study in The Journal of Pediatrics seems to lend support to this idea.
https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/are-we-misdiagnosing-immaturity-adhd
Children just need time to grow and mature like I did. We live in the worst age possible for children. God bless em.
They say the 1950s was a conformist time. No way. That was a great time for kids. THE BEST.
Nowadays everyone diagnosing the fun and life and desire for adventure out of kids and nothing being wrong.
And so-called specialists who don’t know what they are talkin about with their fancy, meaningless psyhobabble, nowadays diagnosing the kids and squeezing the spirit and life out of kids.
The 1950s was great time for kids; I remember being left alone to play after school in untrammeled nature with any friends I wanted to ,; no forced , rigid play dates. God, if I had been a child now , I would have been diagnosed with every ADHD and autism label they make up.
“Autism Spectrum” fancy that, that is enogh to kill the creative lively spirit out of a growing chid. or ADHD and the rest.
No wonder there are so many teen suicides. By that time their spirit is dead, they no longer can respond to life , because they were not allowed to naturally respond. They were made to be walking zombies.
We live in a greedy, robotic world, with stupid so-called educator specialists trying to trap lively, imaginative, kids who want to run run run and explore outside, trap them in stifling all day kindergarten.
I remember myself at that age. Fun and freedom that’s what I craved. Even now..
Consistent inability to focus appropriately in the classroom dating back to first grade and the teacher’s comments on the postcard confirming that problem is the hallmark of an actual attention deficiency and a proper diagnosis.
5:38 nice story about your youth. It has nothing to do with a doctor’s diagnosis.
Yes, but there is no CONSISTENT in most cases. Young energetic kids who love to dance and sing and explore, like I was, are NOW GIVEN DRUGS in early elementary school, even kindergarten. And that should be against the law.
I still have my kindergarten report card, buster, and it said that I did not pay attention. That was in the 1940s. I became a good student and a devoted student of the piano in elementary school and went to Juilliard for college.
They don’t wait to see how kids do nowadays. and you know it. You are probably an educator or medicine man, psychologist profiting from destroying kids lives.
You know how long they should wait. Eighteen years, buster. To ask the kid if they want to be put on poison.
Kids are put on drugs that destroy their minds and bodies and there is a huge movememt against that. It should be criminal to diagnose and give kids those poisons.
To wait until the child has reached the age of 18 could, in the case of a child with a true attention deficiency, result in a trail of academic failures that might have been turned around into successes if the child had been timely diagnosed and treated. Maybe waiting until middle school to intervene in uncertain cases is advisable but waiting until the end of high school seems unnecessary and potentially damaging to kids who truly need help.
I meant not drugging little kids. There was a series of articles in the NYT on over diagnosing little kids and the extreme negative effects of drugging them.
There have been many books and articles on our current environment of not letting little kids have more freedom and freedom in nature.
An article in the Record just last week was about a Scandinavian country that doesn’t start school until kids are seven. And those kids develop superbly.