Personally I am a medication minimalist, and have 3 family members that are over prescribed and addicted, so I have strong feelings/thoughts about it.
Between greedy pharma, corrupt government, lazy med professionals and lazy consumers, the good science and usefulness of meds gets misdiagnosed. It's symptomatic of our times. Finding a balanced perspective is difficult.
@Bamboozled and @BillytheFish ... you guys are wayyyyy better posters than this. Put down the weaponized words and get back to the issue. Remember? Attack the idea and not the person with it.
I think I have attacked the idea and have been pretty forward with it. Psychiatrists are right along with the lazy medical professionals. We over diagnosed and over stimulate people, especially children in the case of ADD/ADHD. Half of the time it's like an hour with your child and they have a complete medical diagnosis. That is not sufficient data, especially in a foreign environment with a child to diagnose them. Especially when they don't take the child's personality into play which can develop more later on, but it shouldn't change too much. If you're in the business of putting people with mental "disorders" on any kind of medication expect extreme criticism. Yes, there are people who have schizophrenia and it's quite obvious if someone suffers from an ailment such as it. But ADHD is so vague they just correlate actions by the child and assume it's related to ADHD. Fuck that shit.
A person who writes off one of the toughest medical fields with one of the highest required levels of education is an imbecile. Other poster's arguments on here basically consist of 'sll healthcare workers are lazy and stupid and cause harm'.
Anyone with half an brain cell or mild education on the subject matter would realize medicine is a risk vs reward endeavor. A poster coming onto this thread saying DONT GIVE YOUR KID MEDICATION is in no way qualified to make that recommendation.
How do people on here know the OPs son isn't climbing trees and fracturing his skull because his ADHD is so out of control? Yes in the long term medication will fuck his organs etc, but if it helps prevent FURTHER IMMEDIATE damage then it outweighs the negative until the next medical issue comes along.
I didn't write off a field, I wrote off their diagnosis of ADHD. Get the fuck outta here with that bullshit.
'do not trust psychiatrists' versus some cunt like you with zero education on here giving medical advice
My six and half year old son was just diagnosed with ADHD. Signs were there but now have an official diagnosis. Geting books, speaking to who I can, but if you have any insight, experience, recommendations, I"m all ears.
Thanks in advance
Yea that stuff is intense I remember once really vividly of staring at a tree for a long time and all the shit my mind was coming up with. ( pretty much just reused stories and imagery from cartoons I watched)I’ve recently been diagnosed with ADHD. I have a pretty good IQ but never did well in school because I could never sit down and study. Never got diagnosed or took meds while I was in school; ADHD wasn’t a thing when I was growing up.
Started adderall for about a month or two ago and hated it. Initial euphoria was kinda cool, but hated that it felt like a vise was on my brain, limiting the width and depth of my thinking. I felt like one of those horses with rhe eye blinds on, limiting my ability to think. My coworkers noticed a difference in my personality and it sorta scared a few of them. I was sweating like a fat man walking a mile in the sun. And that’s just while I’m sitting at my desk. I’m off adderall now and I feel much better. My psychiatrist suggested a different medication but I declined. I’m ok with my (lack of) productivity. I get things done when I need to.
Eveyone is different, of course, so your kid’s results will differ.