Quote From: alijay1So you don't believe that medical doctors who specialize in Psychiatry are "real" doctors?
NO they are not. If they really were than they would know that an abnormality needs to be present for a disease/disorder to exist and subsequently require medication. They train the same way that doctors do for the first few years and then "specialise" in psychiatry for a few more years, and conveniently forget the training they had and the oath they took. Or maybe they have been trained by the almighty Dollar to take no notice of the fact and do it for the improvement of their bank balances. Many do it. In fact, CHADD, the so called parents support group for parents with ADD/ADHD children, was set up using drug company donations and given the line that they should educate parents to spread the word and so unknowingly they helped to drive up the sales of Methalphenidate (Ritalin, I'm sure you will have heard of it.) and as a result their profits too.
I can go on and on with a list of PROVEN medical diagnoses of the brain
Alright then, give me the proof, quantifiable, medical journal published fact and accepted medical proof, that these so called diseases exist. Not neuro transmitter malfunctions, medical proof of a procedure that can and has been done that medically proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that ADD/ADHD actually does exist?
To quote a pre-eminant doctor of neurology and avid anti ADHD campaigner Dr F Baughmann MD, "They (Psychiatry) made a list of the most common symptoms of emotional discomfiture of children; those which bother teachers and parents most, and in a stroke that could not be more devoid of science or Hippocratic motive--termed them a 'disease.' Twenty five years of research, not deserving of the term 'research.,' has failed to validate ADD/ADHD as a disease. Tragically--the "epidemic" having grown from 500 thousand in 1985 to between 5 and 7 million today--this remains the state of the 'science' of ADHD." You can find this and much more on his website www.adhdfraud.org
Oh and no I don't take any medication. I am healthy and have no need for any foreign chemicals. I eat properly and excercise regularly. I do not have a weight problem nor do I smoke.
Your argument that one needs to take medication for other organs in order to restore them to a state of health holds no water. It is however, the typical argument put forward to encourage people to go the route of using any substance that is harmful for them... telling them, "it won't hurt you, you'll feel better afterwards..." sounds awfully like a certain snake saying something along the lines of "Did God really say that? Surely not? All he meant was ..." followed of course by any justification he wanted to use...
If anyone is at all sad, then may I suggest that you cast a glance in your mirror more often.
ADD/ADHD is a controversial topic in that some contend that it does not exsist and some contend that it does. The reson it is so controversial is that they have not done enough research, to determine the exact causes of, what the medical profession terms, Attention deficit disorder.
What the scientist have been able to determine thus far in their research is,that ADD is nerobiological in basis, and possibly genetics.
They have also concluded that Hyper activity in children may be a result of excessive slow wave or theta activity in the brain.
They have also found that children that have been properly diagnosed with ADD/ADHD have lower levels of lower levels of Dopamine, a nerotransmitter involved with the mental and emotional functioning.
Neroimaging has also shown that there are differences between children diagnosed with ADD/ADHD most significanlty in the pre frontal cortex.
They have found that children diagnosed with ADD/ADHD have smaller brains most notably in the pre frontal cortex, and cerebellum.
These children also dispaly maladative behaviors that clearly show they are not functioning on a level of a child who is developing normaly.
These scientists, Doctors, and researchers clearly see that there is an abnormality, an abnormality is present.
I certainly am not going to write out a thesis, these are just some of the facts, that they have been able to determine.
Proof is being demanded, well they are working on it. that does not change the fact that there is an abnormality and that it is serious, and is affecting the quality of life of many individuals and families.
The first case of ADD was medically diagnosed way back in 1902, this is not a new issue, it has only recently within the past few years had more recognition becaue of the media.
Saying something does not exist because someone not convinced is foolish.
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation."
- Herbert Spencer
If these men and women stop the research and turn their backs, saying there is not a problem, many children and familys will suffer for that foolish notion that if we ignor it it does not exist.
Do I think that there is no potential of misdiagnosing, over medicating, or unethical practices by some professionals. Absolutly not, but that does not change the fact that many of these professionals are practicing ethicaly, and doing much needed research, and treating and diagnosing their patients correctly.
Trying to beat scientific facts and research into submission with religious connotation is ridiculous. Making a broad statement that individuals don't need medication to restore them to a state of health, because the one saying it is healthy, is misguided
You are blessed that you are healthy and have no need for medications, however for many many individuals they are not so blessed. You can not use your own health and well being as an example as to why ill individuals should not take medication.
I most certainly am open to a healthy debate, but arguing and debating are two very diferent things.
