A Shrink told me one time the easiest way he found to tell if Ritalin would in fact help was to give a kid suspected with having ADD ADHD a caffine pill and watch the child too see if symptoms changed. Now when I was a kid they thought I had it. I can drink 6 Cokes a night and it won't do nothing to me. But I can hear certain frenquency noises and I about go through the roof.
Actually I have seizures {strong upper torso spasms} but not in the form most persons recognize as being such. They are called Myoclonic. The thing about it except in very extreme cases like mine a C.A.P.D. diagnoses means $0 to the drug companies. I didn't have to start taking meds for this till I was in my mid thirties. The doctors tried antidepressants which was a huge disaster.
You actually have physiological symptoms. In the case of ADD/ADHD the symptoms are are vague and subjective. Giving someone a pill and observing behavior change doesn’t establish anything. I can give anyone who is normal caffeine, amphetamines, or Xanax and change behavior. If the normal person is tired and takes caffeine, for example, he will feel and function better. Nevertheless, it would be absurd to conclude that the person had a mental illness that required treatment by caffeine or that indicated a caffeine deficiency. Instead, what you have is someone who needs more sleep. Similarly, changing behavior by drugging with Ritalin does not demonstrate that there is a mental illness or a Ritalin deficiency. ADD/ADHD is a bogus diagnosis that was concocted to persuade parents to medicate their children to maintain order in schools because traditional discipline has disappeared in many homes and all government schools.
This is a diagnosis that is simply a way to eliminate what the school deems bad behavior by medication. Critics point out that this so-called mental illness goes away in the summer.