tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post7994499686049867630..comments2024-03-18T08:02:51.154-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Is There an Epidemic of ADHD?Stuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-6254263773883910912016-09-14T20:45:16.783-07:002016-09-14T20:45:16.783-07:00There are both far too many diagnoses as well as p...There are both far too many diagnoses as well as people not being diagnosed who should be.<br />And the tragedy is that many of those not being diagnosed aren't so as a result of the overdiagnosis of others in large part.<br />Sensible doctors and parents refuse to let their children be tested because of the stigma associated with the condition and being seen as "trying to drug your children to keep them quiet".<br /><br />It's the same with autism (the entire scala of that).<br /><br />And it's hurting those people as adults, when the results can be destroyed careers and lives, and even less chance of diagnosis and treatment as many doctors (and people in general) won't recognise the symptoms in adults at all, being under the mistaken impression that it only affects children "who will just grow out of it".jwentinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03231225414960320582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-1883261014559866822016-09-13T10:07:19.038-07:002016-09-13T10:07:19.038-07:00Strangely when I started reading TW's "Pr...Strangely when I started reading TW's "Primary and secondary teachers today cannot deal with children outside..." my mind hooked on the "outside" as a literal.<br /><br />So many kids don't play outside any more, with entertainment centers and computer games holding their mental attention, along with high salt, sugar and fat snacks.<br /><br />And this blog in the past is critical when schools actually try to feed the children a healthy lunch that doesn't meet the children's need for taste excitement like all the snacks they consume on a daily basis.<br /><br />But to ADHD specifically, and the H part, hyperactivity, means the kids have more energy than they can handle sitting still for 6 hours per day. So I've also read that restoring gym time, or playground time may be critical to help kids work off all that energy, and then perhaps they can focus better, without drugs, or at least the ordinary hyperactive kids, versus some who may actually have ADHD, but still will benefit by the same "Prescription exercise".<br /><br />Interestingly it seems in the last months I've seen more kids and teens at the local parks, but they're not bird watching like me, but staring at their smart phones, apparently looking for invisible monsters on their camera phones. But at least they're outside I guess, one step at a time!<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-23782589116342110812016-09-13T09:05:55.686-07:002016-09-13T09:05:55.686-07:00I had a friend who was a company VIP and shared wi...I had a friend who was a company VIP and shared with me that he had had ADHD as a child. <br /><br />"Really? Did you take drugs for it?"<br />"No. My father found a treatment for it."<br />"Wow. What did he do?"<br />"He smacked me on the back of the head and told me to knock it off."<br /><br /><br />TW - couldn't agree more, although I'd place more blame on the parents than the schools. If parents spent as much time researching and implementing alternative methods of dealing with this 'diagnosis' as they do on facebook and/or twitter, things would be different.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-86889252312864463372016-09-13T08:49:08.599-07:002016-09-13T08:49:08.599-07:00Good points, TW!Good points, TW!Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-18276866943276847332016-09-13T06:59:32.981-07:002016-09-13T06:59:32.981-07:00"The blame lies with overzealous physicians....."The blame lies with overzealous physicians..."<br /><br />I disagree. The "blame" lies with incompetent educators, including "school" psychologists, too-busy parents, and a toxic social milieu that is unsafe, or perceived as such, for children.<br /><br />Primary and secondary teachers today cannot deal with children outside +/- 1.5 standard deviations of the mean. "School" psychologists, the most poorly-trained of any clinical specialty, are consulted and children referred to specialist teachers (each placement recieves a Federal bounty) and physicians. Physicians, equally poorly-trained to deal with developmental matters, are pressured to "do something".<br /><br />This is a national disgrace, and the consequences are going to be ugly.<br />Trigger Warningnoreply@blogger.com