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Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Overview

The good news is that no one has either ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) or ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) for the very good reason that they don’t exist - no organic brain diseases called ADD or ADHD have ever been proven to exist by proper scientific methods. ADD and ADHD are simply terms that psychiatry uses to describe certain types of behaviour that it doesn’t understand and can’t cure.

So where did ADD and ADHD come from?

ADD was invented by a group of psychiatrists in 1980. In 1987, ADHD was voted into existence by committee members of the American Psychiatric Association and enshrined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Within a year, 500,000 children were diagnosed with ADHD alone. This created a huge market for potentially-addictive psychiatric drugs such as Ritalin.

How many children have been labelled with ADD and ADHD?

Over 20 million children worldwide are on highly addictive mind-altering psychiatric drugs for alleged learning disorders. Children have been diagnosed with “chemical imbalances” despite the fact that no test exists to support such a claim and there is no real conception of what a correct chemical balance would look like.

But isn’t it caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain?

That is what psychiatry would like one to believe. However what they don’t want you to know is that the chemical imbalance in the brain theory is completely discredited. According to Dr T. Colbert, “As with all other mental disorders, however, researchers have vigorously attempted to find proof that ADHD is caused by a chemical imbalance, but have come up with nothing.”

I’m not at fault for bad parenting

Psychiatrists try to characterise anyone opposing their widespread drugging of children as people who accuse others of bad parenting. They do this because drugging children is extremely profitable. The idea of simply giving a child a pill to smother symptoms is thus sold by psychiatry, while all the dangers of such prescribed stimulant-type medication are rarely made properly know. There is no one cause for all problem child behaviour - each case involves proper non-psychiatric investigation to find out what is really going on.

How does a diagnosis of ADHD occur?

A psychiatrist simply looks at a child and compares what he or she thinks about that child’s behaviour to a list in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and looks for 6 or more matches from the invented criteria there. There’s no real science to it at all.

I’ve heard Ritalin is potentially dangerous?

Correct. Ritalin is the amphetamine-like stimulant drug widely prescribed to children for the contrived mental disease ADHD. It is a Schedule II narcotic which simply means it is in the same category as cocaine. It is a drug of dependency and frank psychotic episodes can occur with abusive use, while the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders states that the major complication of Ritalin withdrawal is suicide. The many side effects of Ritalin are listed in our publication The Side Effects of Common Psychiatric Drugs - to read this, please click here.

So what causes problem behaviour?

The first thing to realise is that problem behaviour is problem behaviour. It isn’t ADHD. It simply is behaviour that is out of agreement with what we think is normal. So understanding that a huge variety of behaviours is part and parcel of normal life is the primary step.

Any child labeled with a so-called psychiatric disorder needs to receive a thorough physical examination by a competent medical—not psychiatric—doctor to first determine what underlying physical condition is causing the manifestation, including, but not limited to testing for:

Often a child may act up or not focus because he or she is experiencing the effects of such undiagnosed and, therefore, untreated conditions.

There is a huge abundance of non-psychiatric resources available for helping with problem behaviour. Numerous books show that health and educational problems alone can cause attention and behavioural problems, thereby discrediting the “ADHD” learning disorder monopoly.

Psychiatrist Dr Sydney Walker’s book The Hyperactivity Hoax, records a variety of reasons for hyperactive behaviour: “Children with early-stage brain tumors can develop symptoms of hyperactivity or poor attention. So can lead- or pesticide-poisoned children. So can children with early-onset diabetes, heart disease, worms, viral or bacterial infections, malnutrition, head injuries, genetic disorders, allergies, mercury or manganese exposure, petit mal seizures and hundreds - yes hundreds - of other minor, major or even life-threatening medical problems. Yet all of these children are labelled hyperactive or ADD.”

And according to a UK publication Mental Illness: Not All in the Mind, “The combination of any of the following: sub-optimum nutrition, exposure to anti-nutrients, overuse of sugar, stimulants and depressants, and food allergies or intolerances-can be a very real contributor to mental and emotional health problems. The correction of these factors often results in substantial improvement.”

Thousands of children put on psychiatric drugs are simply “smart”. “They’re hyper not because their brains don’t work right, but because they spend most of the day waiting for slower students to catch up with them. These students are bored to tears, and people who are bored fidget, wiggle, scratch, stretch and (especially of they are boys) start looking for ways to get into trouble,” said Dr Walker.

Studies also show that tutoring leads to improvements in academic outcomes. If your child is not learning or is behind on school, or simply doesn’t enjoy his classes or can’t seem to concentrate. find a competent tutor who gets results. And let his teacher know that you want him to fully understand his words, using a simple dictionary.

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Disclaimer: Please note that the information on this website is for information purposes only.
None of it constitutes medical advice. In order to safely come off psychiatric drugs, we have provided relevant websites in on our Links page. However we provide this information on a buyer-beware basis and you must use your own judgement. No one should stop taking any psychiatric drug without the advice and assistance of a competent, non-psychiatric medical doctor.


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