Posted on 10/14/2007 9:48:10 AM PDT by crazyshrink
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Word.
I am well read on the inquisition and the smoke and mirrors
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Keep reading!
Juvenile delinquency has been around forever. I personally don’t remember any of my school peers with hyperactivity. I also read that Albert Einstein could not sleep for over 30 minutes- is that a normal hyperactivity thing?
The insidious blue babies! One of their adventures was playing at Radio Shack one Saturday morning and the shopping crowd was going about its business when some of the blue baby conversation broke through our consciousness. There were suddenly half a dozen middle-aged adults clustered around the large screen. OMG said one. This is for children?
From whence came that impression? :)
Any article that is not on the FRee Republic no-no list can be posted in full.
Although, unfortunately, there are lots of lazy FReepers that excerpt everything they post whether it should be excerpted or not.
The really lazy FReepers always post just one or two sentences from the article. A disservice to the rest of us, IMHO.
I hope you are not implying I am lazy. I could more easily have posted the entire article than the 2 paragraphs I chose to post.
I have had posts rejected in the past with the explanation being they were over 300 words. Perhaps this is only in certain posting categories.
Yes. Sleep problems are very common with ADHD. Not being able to get to sleep and not being able to wake up.
It is more work to excerpt than to post the whole piece because some judgment must be employed. Best would be the executive summary alone.
a lot of it has to do with the general lack of omega 3 from the diet
ADHD is conservatively estimated to occur in 3,0–7,5% of school-age children (Goldman et al., 1998), but more permissive criteria yield estimates of up to 17% (Barbaresi et al., 2002). Up to 20% of boys in some school systems receive psychostimulants for the treatment of ADHD
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in other words, a heck of a lot of kids are getting drugs even if they don’t actually have ADHD. that’s what happens when teachers imagine themselves to be MD’s
IMO, you have it correct. The drugs are used to control behaviors.
If you don’t already know the ADHD threads attract two anti-groups:
1. Every ignorant parent who never had to deal with the issue and think parents of children with ADD are guilty of feeding their children wrong, allow uncontrolled TV and video games or lack proper discipline.
2. The rest are Scientology adherents
That's what they say. However, the medical establishment has been an institution of the state since the public insane asylums were established a couple hundred years ago. As such they are part of the branch of justice of the state, as are the schools themselves, and the medical personnel are agents of the state as are the teachers. Physical health medicine is also being institutionalized as part of the state as can be seen in attempting tobacco control, fat control, lead control, carbon control, and gun control as well as side airbags and mandatory health insurance.
I agree. Those types of posters are prevalent.
However, others can benefit from new info and if 1 person can be helped, briefly skimming those posts is tolerable for me. As someone who works with ADHD behaviors, a big goal in my work is education.
so the authors of this article are scientologists? It is simple common sense that before you think about fixing something with a drug, you have to try all non-pharmaceutical options first. That doesn’t mean to be anti drug but it does mean we need to get out of this mentality that you can do anything you want and just take a pill.
Must be a tough life huh?
It is a very good study.
My daughter has a brain injury that has caused deficits in working memory.
I’d like to know what they did to improve working memory. My daughter could use it.
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