Does anyone have any experience with ADD or ADHD?
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The term "ADHD" is simply a label used to categorise a list of psychosocial traits that Psychiatry considers to be improper or abnormal in society. Psychiatry defines these traits as a "mental illness", and promotes it as a "disease" that requires "treatment".
It is not a "disease", despite claims or implications made by certain psychiatric or pharmaceutical organisations. There is NO credible scientific evidence that shows the existence of what constitutes "ADHD" as a biological/neurological disorder, brain abnormality or "chemical imbalance".
"For a disease to exist there must be a tangible, objective physical abnormality that can be determined by a test such as, but not limited to, blood or urine test, X-Ray, brain scan or biopsy. All reputable doctors would agree: No physical abnormality, no disease. In psychiatry, no test or brain scan exists to prove that a 'mental disorder' is a physical disease. Disingenuous comparisons between physical and mental illness and medicine are simply part of psychiatry's orchestrated but fraudulent public relations and marketing campaign." Fred Baughman, MD., Neurologist & Pediatric Neurologist.
"Chemical imbalance…it’s a shorthand term really, it’s probably drug industry derived… We don’t have tests because to do it, you’d probably have to take a chunk of brain out of someone - not a good idea." Dr. Mark Graff, Chair of the Committee of Public Affairs for the American Psychiatric Association. July, 2005.
Such behavioural characteristics that Psychiatry created this unscientific "disease" from are, and always have been, generally considered NORMAL. Now, it seems, inattention or "hyperactivity" (Hyperactivity means 'excessively active'* -- what is excessive? On whose authority?? It's ridiculous!!) is abnormal, a "mental illness".
For a rundown of the exact diagnostic criteria of "attention deficit disorder" visit: http://groups.msn.com/psychbusters/diagnosticcriteria.msnw
For information on the junkscience behind psychiatric "testing" for "ADHD" visit: http://adhdtesting.org/
For a list of what inattention COULD be attributed to (rather than some fraudulent "mental illness") visit: http://adhdparentssupportgroup.homestead.com/50conditionsmimicingADHD.html
For more information, see;
http://groups.msn.com/psychbusters/addadhd.msnw
http://groups.msn.com/psychbusters/adhdfacts.msnw
http://www.adhdfraud.org/
http://www.ritalindeath.com/
http://cchr.org/files/7515/child_drug_EN.pdf
http://www.ablechild.org/
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"We are not "overdrugging" or misdiagnosing" ADHD. ADHD is a total, 100 percent fraud. The many millions of schoolchildren around the world who are being drugged have no disease." Fred Baughman, Jr., M.D. Child Neurologist and a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology.
"Parents are seldom told that Ritalin is ‘speed’—that it is pharmacologically classified with amphetamines, has the same effects, side effects, and risks. Yet this is well-known in the profession.." Dr. Peter R. Breggin & Ginger Ross Breggin, The War Against Children, P. 84.
".But because ADD is so vaguely defined, even for a psychiatric disorder, it is tailor-made for bogus claims. There are, as the American Psychiatric Association’s latest diagnostic manual concedes, "no laboratory tests that have been established as diagnostic" for "Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder." Richard E. Vatz, Professor, Towson State University, "Attention Deficit Delirium," The Wall Street Journal, July 27, 1994
"The diagnosis of ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) is entirely subjective… There is no test. It is just down to interpretation… The lines between an ADD sufferer and a healthy exuberant kid can be very blurred." Dr. Joe Kosterich. Chairman of the Australian Medical Association. Sydney Morning Herald.
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Decoding Psychiatric Propaganda
http://groups.msn.com/psychbusters
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For me its the inablity to concentrate. I'll start a project, and walk away from it and not want to finish it. I have to really think hard and apply myself. It's not being able to do more than one task at a time usually. Or, being in school-and just not being able to keep your mind on work. Or at a job, and you find yourself drifting off into space somewhere, or wanting to balance your checkbook, or check your email. My son on the other hand is more on the hyper side.
I'm a guy with ADD, but it runs in my family and my female cousin has it. Actually, the differences are only pronounced on the surface. In extremely general terms what you are looking for is:
1) Impulsiveness or limited ability to filter impulses in time to prevent them. This may include hyperactivity, talking too much (hyperactive speach) and other things.
2) Distractability. Is the person always 'off with the fairies' even when they are looking at you and trying to concentrate.
3) Poor Visual and/or Auditory discrimination. The brain is supposed to filter out the unimportant visual signals and 'background noise'.
For example, someone with ADD, even though they are focusing on a person who is speaking, may have to ask them to repeat it because their ears were focused on the sound of a creaking door. Very embarassing!!
4) Poor short term memory. This is most obvious when a person is given an instruction and forgets it 5 seconds later. Sure, that's normal. But it happen a lot to those with ADD.
My cousin talks hyperactively, is highly distractable, has a poor short term memory (but has the best long-term memory out of all the other 5th graders at her school). She has poor auditory discrimination. She doesn't run around screaming because of hyperactivity, but neither do I! In fact, most of those thing are just like in my case!
If you are concerned about someone having the condition, you must see a SPECIALIST. They will use equipment to monitor brainwaves and give an ACCURATE diagnosis.
The medication used (different medications are suitable for different people) to control the condition stimulate parts of the brain which have not yet matured enough, giving the sufferer the power to suppress their symptoms.
By the way, angela_mac97 hit the nail right on the head
tim0huxley@yahoo.com.sg
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Personal experience- Note: I am not a specialist.
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