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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder? No, they’re just naughty, say experts
UK Daily Mail
Friday, July 4, 2008
Teachers could be labelling children as hyperactive when they are simply naughty, experts have suggested.
A study reveals only a handful of youngsters believed to have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, actually suffer from the syndrome.
The research has raised fears that children are being wrongly diagnosed because they are disruptive in lessons or refuse to co-operate with teachers.
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Psychiatrists now want to change the ways in which schools identify pupils with ADHD.
Up to three per cent of all primary school children are said to suffer from the condition, which causes symptoms including hyperactivity, restlessness and inattention.
Teachers who suspect a child has the disorder usually refer them to their local mental health service, where specialists carry out observations before making a diagnosis.
Many are also prescribed drugs such as Ritalin, which helps increase concentration and memory.
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July 4th, 2008 at 7:54 am
From my experience some ADHD symptoms are caused by diet and the additives in foods children consume. A very small group of kids have ADHD and more research needs to be done to eliminate the effects food additives and allergens to foods for kids before they become labled with ADHD or ADD. There needs to be more public awareness of ADHD as it affects children who really have it to such a dgree that it isolates them at school and socially. Ritalin doesn’t always help, as diet plays a huge role. Parents need to take an active role in making sure their children are helped in any capacity to prevent ADHD from becoming a huge issue. Kids who have actual ADHD not only display inattention, hyperactivity, and unrulieness in closed confined situations such as the class room, they also have many other symptoms accompanying them such as Dispraxia, OCD to name but two. It’s no laughing matter and kids who have ADHD are taught by society to be ashamed of themselves. It’s the other way around in that we treat ADHD with such flippancy and arrogance as to say that it’s not the fault of food or situations such as abuse, but when those factors are taken out, and the child still displays symptoms, then society needs to help not condemn as it so often does.
I am a parent of an ADHD child and I know the social and financial cost of what we go through.
July 4th, 2008 at 9:29 am
I’ve always said the whole ADHD/ADD hoopla was a bunch of B.S.
For years, the schools hounded me about how much my son would benefit from being drugged. And for years, I refused. He’s 17 now. And guess what… he’s just an independent thinker. I’m so glad I didn’t fall into all that non-sense and told them to shove their ritalin up their a$$.
July 4th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Get the kids off the junk food! I myself dont know much about ADHD so I myself cannot pretend to deny that the condition exists genuinely. But for most kids I think the problem, as others have stated is the junk food (and maybe other controllable factors)
Havent you ever noticed that this wasnt a problem, say, 40 years ago and beyond that when junk food wasnt a big problem and short-attention-span-high-action video games just didnt exist? And any hyperactive kids were just that….hyperactive kids.
Get the kids off the junk, keep the computers/TV/video games out of the bedroom and limit their time on them and I think you would take care of a big part of the problem right there.
July 4th, 2008 at 11:54 am
I meant to say about the kids in earlier times, “misbehaving” rather than hyperactive
July 4th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Well, I’ve had ADHD since I was very young, about 2-3 years old, if not younger. It sucked throughout elementary school. People always thought I was mental or something, calling the Ritalin “psycho meds” among other things when I had to go to the nurse to take it everyday. Didnt have many friends save but a few who were kind at the time. I agree with Karen, my grandparents helped as much as they could, but when I hit mid teens, I stopped taking it cause it made me a zombie almost. Ritalin and Adderal are just amphetamines, whats used in methamphetamines and the like. It’s a condition that should be treated with caution yet openness and i have since found an “alternative”
form of medication that helps it. Its odd, for me things that make you “up”(energy drinks,etc) bring me down or make me sick, and “downers” help to even things out abit. Thought this would help with some insight into someone who deals with it daily 
July 4th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
I am an adult grown from an ADHD child. I grew up in the days before there was an awareness of ADHD in the schools and society. ADHD kids, me included, were just considered a pain in the ass by the teachers, neighbors, and potential friends, and the disorder shaped my entire life. It runs in the males in my familiy, both sides. The males in my family, if they don’t give up too young, go on to good things and sometimes wealth, before their lack of social skills and sub basement digging self images ruin them. We even had a top nuclear physicist who finally drank himself to death or at least insanity. I haven’t heard of him for a long time. I quit school at 16. Had really given up long before that. I self medicated with amphetamines and cocaine for years. Marijuana to clear the symptoms of drug abuse and to keep a minimum of sanity in my life. Finally ended up as a Building Contractor and Custom Home designer due to my natural ability for geometry and spacial skills. I have also owned and operated commercial fishing boats. Geometry again, and few social skills needed. A long term bout with Hepatitus C and a serious lack of people skills, along with two marriages gone south, have pretty much ended my carreer as a builder or anything else that I can think of. I’m getting to the age where I need some Medical attention and absolutly can’t get medical care in the USA unles I submit to paying exactly twice as much as an insurance company pays for the same procedure, service, or test. Not whining I have made all of these choices except to get ADHD. I have been lucky enough to to have some money making skills although they don’t seem to be marketable at the present. Parents if you suspect ADHD in your child especially if it tends to run in your family or in that of your spouses seek diagnosis and help for your child. ADHD left untreated is a social and, probable, ecomonic, and very likely physical, death sentence. Raising an ADHD child is a Hurculean task, I know, I have done it sucessfully, and nearly a certain precurser to divorce. Raise that child, and do the best you can and try to appreciate the efforts of your spouse. You really have no other choice, other than getting into Sharons boat and crossing the Styx. Feel free to contact me if it is possible through this site.
July 5th, 2008 at 12:02 am
Not convinced by the junk food argument myself. Something else was very different 40-odd years ago – in education and at home. All children, especially boys took far, far more exercise both in school and out. Years ago children walked and ran literally miles and miles nearly every day. There was also much more discipline and respect in schools and at home. Children are supposed to burn off much more energy than modern sedentary youngsters do, and I believe the oxygenised blood rushing around the body as it exercises is good for the developing brain, better than Ritalin etc.
July 5th, 2008 at 7:40 am
The Reason so many children and people in general are medicated is to preclude them from firearms ownership.
If I prescribe an anti-spychotic, SSRI or even a benzodiazapine, that person will never be able to own a gun as they will not pass the background checks. I warn all my patients of this fact.
The secondary reason would be control; and addicted populace is on a chemical leash and more easily controlled and far less likely to invest themselves in political action. In fact, fear of losing acess to prescribed medications is a major limiting factor, and if opten used to coerce and extort – a prime example of this is police interrogation.
Denial of medications to bring on withdrawl symptoms is an increasingly common Police tactic in coercing information out of my patients. I spend a lot of time testifying against such officers – thanks to rampant addiction and over-prescription the state now has a new weapon in its torture arsenal.
I would like to add as a warning – do not tell the police if you are on a medication that can increase the chances of suicide, violence or memory loss. The militarized police are trained to use recognize this and use them to rid themselves of troublesome Citizens. Sometime they will threaten to kill you and say they will get away with it whilst reading the side-effects of your medication aloud to you. Disgusting.
The things my patients have told me are abhorrent, the things i have witnessed are even worse. The results of Police Brutality, Self-Murder forced on patients by refusing their medication… as sometimes Death is preferable to the withdrawals of some medications (which makes suiciding a troublesome individual )easier, this is why Opiate Users will often Cut themselves and self-injure as the stimulus from that sort of pain heaven compared to their current condition.
I have heard this thrice:
“We have concluded that the officer(s) reacted accordingly to the perceived threat posed by the deceased. Furthermore, although Mr Doe has been found to be a person other than that identified by the arrest warrant/not been charged with any crime and we feel that it would be unjust to punish our Dedicated Law enforcement Officials for following standard operating procedure in response to the perceived threat posed by Mr. Doe.”
I have heard this “excuse” to cover up three D.O.A at my hospital.
It is a common one and extremely frightening as there is no oversight, and documentation is always minimal/biased in these internally-conducted investigations.
God help us all and God Bless Alex Jones.
July 5th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Convenient herd management and behaviour modification methods.
In my day, it was corporal punishment.
Today, it’s medication.
July 6th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Doctor McAuley
“The Reason so many children and people in general are medicated is to preclude them from firearms ownership.”
wow.