Posted by Rawudi on September 21, 2003, at 19:24:02
In reply to Re: please be civil, posted by zeugma on September 21, 2003, at 12:51:51
> If you say that ADHD is a "made-up disorder," or "doesn't exist," you are going to have to have a hard time convincing anyone here of that, simply because so many of us suffer from these conditions and have been severely debilitated as a result. As for "natural human tendencies," humans seem to have a natural tendency to develop cancer, should people therefore not be treated for this and die prematurely? (If you think that cancer is a "real" and serious illness but ADHD is not, consider that severe ADHD can cause depression, job loss, educational failure, and even suicide. I have never understood why people can accept the existence of physical illness but insist that people with mental illnesses should just "pull themselves up by their bootstraps." In my opinion this also shows an insuffificient recognition of the importance of the mind itself. I can live without a limb, but can I live without a properly functioning brain? Just something to think about....)
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Thank you!
History will point out that common medicine has has a long track of failures and is even today full of such with new treatments they have to develope. But one can observe that their progress is just that - PROGRESS. From witch craft/medicine man to bloodletting to an exact science of locating, isolating and terminating most aliments.
On the other hand - psychiatry has not progressed an inch, other than adjoining those sciences that have progressed and using those ties to further its own ends. They still use lobomoties, electroshock, restraints such as incarceration, drugging and labelling. If they had anything slightly aligning to a "cure," or be able to terminatedly handle what they lable - something totally foreign to their thinking - than I would be more open to their claims, but they aren't, will not and can't ever approach the idea in fear they will be found for what they are.
Yes, we definitely need a solution to the many problems that man has. Yes, man's ability to identify and handle many of the common "illnesses" has been left wanting by psychiatry - but there are answers and know of many workable solutions!
- Dr Sydney Walker says: "The moral is that very little is undiagnosable, but much is not being diagnosed." Case in point - "Robert Hoffman reported that in 1982, 215 patients admitted to a medical-psychiatric hospital unit, 41% were initially misdiagnosed; in addition, he found that 63% of patients labeled as having an "untreatable dementia" had treatable disorders. A 1985 study of 131 randomly selected patients at the Manhattan Psychiatric Center found that "approximately 75% of the patients re-evaluated may have been wrongly diagnosed when admitted to the center" and that "frequent misdiagnosis of schizophrenia caused severe harm to many patients who were inappropriately given powerful drugs, such as neuroleptics, that mask symptoms...."
My diagnosis here is simple then. Avoid at all costs seeing a psychiatrist/psychologist. Get full medical examinations for a full diagnostic evaluation as to body problems, before if possible, any other medication is taken which could mask the actual problem. A lot of case scenarios show this to be true is most cases where misdiagnosis of symptoms occur.
So, cancer is something being looked into. ADHD is a misnomer and being "treated" by fictitious "help". I thus am more than agreeable to actual help and seeing that then preteniousness.
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