Is Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) real?!


Question: Is Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) real.?
I mean, in the USA we've got something like 10% of our young male population diagnosed with it. Yet isn't it possible that high distractability is actually a survival trait, one that varies in intensity in the population.? After all, in the stone age, an easily-distracted human would have been less likely to end up as a predator's lunch!

also, what's with giving out large quantities of SPEED to these kids.? That's what Ritalin, Adderal, are, you know. As speed, they increase heart rate, blood pressure, and occasionally trigger heart attacks or strokes. Some kids actually drop dead the first time they take these horrible drugs.

Btw, I've been a teacher at the high school level -- chemistry and physics, etc. -- for 13.5 years, which is where I'm coming from on this issue.Health Question & Answer


Answers:
Probably not. Or, if it is, it's not in anywhere NEAR the numbers that it's being diagnosed

Now psychiatrists are saying that all these kids we diagnosed with ADD/ADHD in the 90's may have actually had childhood onset bipolar! So instead of giving 5-year-old's speed, now they give them what are basically medicinal lobotomies with anti-psychotics.

It's disturbing. Back in the old days, when a kid misbehaved they swatted them on the butt. Now we call the child abuse. But instead of giving a bad child a swat on the butt now, we dose them full of drugs.

That's not child abuse.?Health Question & Answer

As a chemistry and physics teacher you must know that these medications have the opposite effect on children, they calm them down. As you know they have the opposite effect on adults then they do work as amphetmines. My son would not have made it through school witthout his medication for ADD. It is real and it disrupts families, classrooms and the lives of the sufferer and those around them. It is a shame that there is such an increase in children with ADD. But thank goodness there is hope for them with the medications.Health Question & Answer

Yes it's real.
My friend has it and she has to take tablets and everything.

I've seen her with and without them, when she has them she's fine, and happy and she can concentrate and stuff.

and without them she has mood swings and bad concentration and she can be really distracting too.Health Question & Answer

Nope. It's just kids being kids and the government telling parents that if the kids refuse to conform as is expected then they shall be drugged until compliance is achieved.Health Question & Answer

yes, it is if you are concerned, about the medications go to
the school doctor and see what yo can do

take it easy

good luckHealth Question & Answer

...umm...yeahhh.
people take medicine for it and stuff.Health Question & Answer

Your a teacher and you dont know if ADD is real.? wow.Health Question & Answer



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