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Re:Children’s A.D.D. Drugs Don’t Work Long-Term by pixie_ on Friday January 18, 2013 @02:28PM (#5080431)
I had a hard time concentrating in school as well. Always in the principal's office, and got C's in conduct all the way through 6th grade. I thank god my parents never had me 'diagnosed' because I was guaranteed to be labeled 'ADD' and been prescribed medication for this truly bullshit condition concocted by the modern age.
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Re:Children’s A.D.D. Drugs Don’t Work Long-Term by josephlord on Friday January 18, 2013 @02:38PM (#5080498)
I strongly suspect it isn't "bullshit" but it is overdiagnosed. It may be a very good thing that you weren't labelled and many may be mislabelled but that doesn't mean there aren't people with real neuropysiological/chemical differences that really do affect behaviour and can be counterbalanced by drugs.
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Re:Children’s A.D.D. Drugs Don’t Work Long-Term by DanBC2 on Friday January 18, 2013 @03:00PM (#5080640)
> prescribed medication for this truly bullshit condition concocted by the modern age.

Ritalin is nearly 60 years old.

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Re:Children’s A.D.D. Drugs Don’t Work Long-Term by pixie_ on Friday January 18, 2013 @03:23PM (#5080783)
Sorry I meant the condition is concocted, not the drug.
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Re:Children’s A.D.D. Drugs Don’t Work Long-Term by DanBC2 on Friday January 18, 2013 @04:47PM (#5081258)
The drug has been used to treat the condition for nearly 60 years.
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Re:Children’s A.D.D. Drugs Don’t Work Long-Term by mistercow on Friday January 18, 2013 @02:46PM (#5080544)
>this truly bullshit condition

Congratulations on your doctorate! Did you go for an MD or a PhD?

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Re:Children’s A.D.D. Drugs Don’t Work Long-Term by pixie_ on Friday January 18, 2013 @03:23PM (#5080787)
Psychology has some of the worst 'science' there is. It's studying alchemy before understanding chemistry. Reading psychology journal articles is painful.
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Re:Children’s A.D.D. Drugs Don’t Work Long-Term by mistercow on Friday January 18, 2013 @04:10PM (#5081045)
You do know that there's a difference between psychiatry and psychology, right?
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Re:Children’s A.D.D. Drugs Don’t Work Long-Term by illuminate on Friday January 18, 2013 @04:23PM (#5081132)
Neurobiology isn't a soft science.
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Re:Children’s A.D.D. Drugs Don’t Work Long-Term by darkarmani on Friday January 18, 2013 @03:08PM (#5080687)
> I had a hard time concentrating in school as well.

Why would you think you would be diagnosed with an executive function disorder?

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