Do you believe in ADD or ADHD?!


Question: i certainly do NOT

i think it has everything to do with discipline by parents and parents not saying no when kids want something.
i think its kids attitudes and the way theyve been brought up then some scientist came along and decided to call it something when kids havent been brought up very well. they called it ADD. i believe theres no such real thing as add. its all to do with behaviour. dont get on at me its only my opinion and i would like yours


Answers: i certainly do NOT

i think it has everything to do with discipline by parents and parents not saying no when kids want something.
i think its kids attitudes and the way theyve been brought up then some scientist came along and decided to call it something when kids havent been brought up very well. they called it ADD. i believe theres no such real thing as add. its all to do with behaviour. dont get on at me its only my opinion and i would like yours

My opinion is that it is very real. I have it and I'm 32. I take medication to manage it. My parents disciplined me, I tried very hard at everything I've even done in life, and sometimes, people are just born with brains that are a bit too "busy".
I was never a bratty kid, I was very aware of my problem and compliant with the rules (and I did get paddled and yelled at when out of line) I resisted the idea of medication into adulthood, but as the scattered thoughts and insomnia (yeah, ADHD folks get that, too) became disruptive to a productive life I decided to do something about it.
It's just that simple and it certainly is not the fault of the child or the parents.
Now, of course the world is full of bratty little turds, too. ADHD just needs to be diagnosed properly by a psychiatrist and managed in people that truly have it.

Nope. It's parents not disciplining your kids like you said, coupled with doctors trying to write out prescriptions for pills so they can get more money.

I believe in it. My boyfriend has ADD. It works in a funny sort of way. If he has to study or write a paper while he is off of Adderol his mind will wonder off to a subject he cares about like cars... while he should be studying he will manage to think up a brilliant new way to reduce gas milage or something like that. When he is on adderol he calms down, he won't freak out because he has a deadline, and he's able to get everything done that he needs to.

His parent's are very nice people. They have put him in the best private schools, disciplined him, always made him work for what he wanted, and never handed him anything on a silver platter. He's 20 years old and a great guy, he just has the hardest time getting his mind to focus on what it needs to be focused on.

I believe in ADD and ADHD about as much as I believe in a broken bone or a brain tumor, since they're all medical conditions that can be seen and proven with the proper diagnostic equipment...

ADD and ADHD are WAY overdiagnosed. That's a shame not only because it overmedicates people, but because the folks who actually DO struggle with this condition on a daily basis are COMPLETELY invalidated.

Most people don't even know that the hyperactive type of ADHD isn't the only type out there. Man, how I wish my condition was due to a lack of discipline. But it's not...it's organic and due to the structure of my brain. I had it since I was born and I'll have it til I die.

Anyone who doesn't "believe" in ADD or ADHD is more than welcome to borrow my unmedicated brain for a day!

I think 30% ADHD and 70% upbringing

strong medication (for heavens sake its class a drugs) is so wrong....

...and when oppositional defiance disorder is diagnosed too....posh name for naughty child!!

So having an inability to focus is somehow directly related to how one is raised? What about depression - do you "believe in" that, or is it also related to improper child rearing? How about schizophrenia? The prevailing level of scientific ignorance still astounds me.

ADHD - ADD is rare (2% or less of the population); ADHD - ADD today is way overdiagnosed. ADHD is as real as the epilepsies, CAPD, Tourette's, Parkinson's, and other neurological challenges. Read the Nerves In Collision book by Walter C. Alvarez, M.D., the How To Cure Hyperactivity book (1981) about ADHD by C. Thomas Wild with Anita Uhl Brothers, M.D., and A Remarkable Medicine Has Been Overlooked (Dilantin) book by Jack Dreyfus. Good luck.





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