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Uploaded by on Oct 20, 2006

Parents of a girl who was prescribed Ritalin, not informed of it's effects and were under the quite common misconception that they had to give their daughter this dangerous Class A drug.

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  • adhd IS real!

  • @bonoboperson The symptoms are, that's for sure! But it's not a disease. It can't be physically proven to exist in a person by any known medical test. E.g. If I told you that you dream because your crazy and I get 10 'experts' to agree and tell you you need to take drugs for the dreams because you have a mental disease but that I can't show you any physical evidence of this to be the case, would you agree with me? Of course not. Road Rage Disorder is also a mental and physical disease?

  • @sebkarlsson ADHD has been proven to be a real brain disorder. you are correct that it is not a disease, but it is a disorder that is passed on by parents through genetics. the children cannot help it that they have adhd, and there are safe medications for it. it's not a result of bad parenting or laziness. it is actuallya shortage of two chemicals called dopamine and norepinephrine. the disorder affects the frontal lobe, which is the part of the brain that is in charge of impulse control.

  • @bonoboperson Strangely enough there's no medical tests to prove that somebody has ADHD.

  • I think ADHD should be labeled if you are so friggin short of attention span you're a harm to yourself and others. Not a child who perhaps doesn't get enough exercise, or doesn't "sit still." Like someone said what is this so called thing called normal? I am willing to bet if psychiatry went back in time a good portion of us would have been ADHD back in the day. Back then there was no such thing as mentally ill kids. How come? why do the numbers seem to be rising?

  • @auntanti

    People smarter than us have said very very similar things. You're exactly right. Why do the numbers increase? It's benefits driven. It's also sales driven. How have they dealt with 'mental illness' in the past? Simply, and it wasn't much of an issue; usually it was seen as eccentric or a nack or other things. Bottom line: it's bs, just like you say.

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  • how sad is this.. i feel for the parents to see there beautiful daughter die in front of them bec of the meds... dont you ever go away mom never..

  • There should be a new law that when a medical psychiatric doctor prescribes their miracle healing drugs, then the doctor should be required to warn their patients that the patient will most likely become horribly addicted to these drugs and possibly have other complications such as changes of eyesight.

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  • right now the psychiatric are making a new "mental ill"...."dont want to take medications" and actually they are making a pill for that. Is all about the money.

  • OMG SAD :-(! I never expected the outcome :-(! I'm so very sorry for the little girl and her family :-( ! All blesses to the family

  • @sebkarlsson True, true...

  • yeah it is all bull shit! they just want your money! i dont take the pills i am supposed to take each day for anti depression! im not depressed. if i need one ill take one but im not going to let myself be pulled into their hands as i get addicted to the pills! im so sorry for your loss.

  • @bonoboperson (continued)On that note, we are still unaware of what the normal levels of any brain chemical, seratonin, dopamine, or otherwise actually is. If we don't know what the normal level is, how can tell someone they have an imbalance? This is a fallacy. However, a lack of Omega-3 has been found to cause a lot of problems. When the body lacks the nutrient Omega-3, it converts Omega-6 (used to make brain cells) into Omega3.

  • @bonoboperson As a former psychology major, I can safely say taht ADHD was never proven to be a brain disorder. It's a theory. There are no genetic tests or any such thing to determine any behavioral problem. Besides, the theory states that ADHD is caused by seratonin, not dopamine.

  • @sebkarlsson there is diagnostic critiria. but if you want to get really invasive, you could measure the levels of dopamine and norepinephrine.

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