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Should everyone have the opportunity to be "normal"? Should it be a decision?
I used to make my livelihood off a company whose #1 product was for the treatment of ADHD, and that really irked me then and still does now. Not the fact that these behavior altering drugs exist, but the fact that the disease that it is prescribed to treat is over diagnosed. I won't even blame the doctors so much, the patient comes to them, in this case a parent, telling them that their son/daughter has been acting up and school and some 2 bit psychologist said she has ADD/ADHD or some such. So, the docs treat the whining parent with medication for their child, who will then be placed back into the "system" so that the "parent" can ignore them, tuck them in bed at night, get them up, dress them, drop at school, pick them up after soccer, throw food at them, and repeat all without killing their SSRI and vodka induced high.
I remember Michael Phelp's mom saying they wanted to treat him for ADHD and she told them to go to hell, got him involved in something (swimming), and walla, we have an the best Olympic swimmer of all time. What would have happened had mom been popping zolof? If I dig I am sure I would find more cases like this, as I hear about one a month and it still ticks me off.
Raise you kids parents! Not grandma or grandpa; they won't raise them like they did you, they will spoil them rotten the way grandparents are suppose to. Not the schools; they are too structured and will want you to drug them if they can't sit on their hands when bored.
The same goes for people with depression or minor autism or social anxiety issues. You are different, should we reveal in this and not medicate to make it go away? Lets find away to harness these differences. In some ways I see this as the same in race diversity, we aren't giving people medication to change the color of their skin so why we are giving them pills to change a behavior that isn't particularly destructive (<- that's key)?
I'm not saying take the suicidal of their meds, though it would appear some meds increase suicidal tendencies, but rather we should look at these "diseases" and ask ourselves if they are more obstacles that should be overcome or dealt with in ways other than medication. These days it seems some random pill is the easiest and best way. When we do this we not only rob a person of their personal identity, but we also rob them of their ability to ever become comfortable with who they really are. In addition, we rob society of all they would have offered if allowed to make terms without drugs; think Beethoven and depression...
I'm just ranting because I learned that my cousin put her daughter on retalin or some such and my sister is thinking about doing the same with her daughter. I've seen these parents in action, and they are horrible. I've also have been in the presence of these kids when the parents aren't around, and they are angels. BEHAVE! They say, as the slowly stir the crushed tablets into their kool-aid. It angers me.
I used to make my livelihood off a company whose #1 product was for the treatment of ADHD, and that really irked me then and still does now. Not the fact that these behavior altering drugs exist, but the fact that the disease that it is prescribed to treat is over diagnosed. I won't even blame the doctors so much, the patient comes to them, in this case a parent, telling them that their son/daughter has been acting up and school and some 2 bit psychologist said she has ADD/ADHD or some such. So, the docs treat the whining parent with medication for their child, who will then be placed back into the "system" so that the "parent" can ignore them, tuck them in bed at night, get them up, dress them, drop at school, pick them up after soccer, throw food at them, and repeat all without killing their SSRI and vodka induced high.
I remember Michael Phelp's mom saying they wanted to treat him for ADHD and she told them to go to hell, got him involved in something (swimming), and walla, we have an the best Olympic swimmer of all time. What would have happened had mom been popping zolof? If I dig I am sure I would find more cases like this, as I hear about one a month and it still ticks me off.
Raise you kids parents! Not grandma or grandpa; they won't raise them like they did you, they will spoil them rotten the way grandparents are suppose to. Not the schools; they are too structured and will want you to drug them if they can't sit on their hands when bored.
The same goes for people with depression or minor autism or social anxiety issues. You are different, should we reveal in this and not medicate to make it go away? Lets find away to harness these differences. In some ways I see this as the same in race diversity, we aren't giving people medication to change the color of their skin so why we are giving them pills to change a behavior that isn't particularly destructive (<- that's key)?
I'm not saying take the suicidal of their meds, though it would appear some meds increase suicidal tendencies, but rather we should look at these "diseases" and ask ourselves if they are more obstacles that should be overcome or dealt with in ways other than medication. These days it seems some random pill is the easiest and best way. When we do this we not only rob a person of their personal identity, but we also rob them of their ability to ever become comfortable with who they really are. In addition, we rob society of all they would have offered if allowed to make terms without drugs; think Beethoven and depression...
I'm just ranting because I learned that my cousin put her daughter on retalin or some such and my sister is thinking about doing the same with her daughter. I've seen these parents in action, and they are horrible. I've also have been in the presence of these kids when the parents aren't around, and they are angels. BEHAVE! They say, as the slowly stir the crushed tablets into their kool-aid. It angers me.
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