re: America is Over-Medicated

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Posted on 10/16/24 at 6:23 am to ClientNumber9
What really started irritating me is the kids. Mostly boys being boys. An “overactive” boy is not set up for success in the current education environment.

Classes are set up for everyone to be in line and behave, recess being cut shorter and shorter, little to no sunlight, fricking atrocious food programs, and it’s the kid’s fault he is bored out of his mind and acting out?

Sadly this is because women typically enter the education workforce. Not that this is insidious, they just don’t understand boy behavior. They do not understand the educational system in the context of young boys, so the standardized testing system of education begins to fail them.

Do our trades guys really need 4 English classes in high school? They need geometry, trigonometry, maybe a general life class of understanding mortgages, insurance, investing for the future, how 401k’s work…basic understanding of useful subjects. Maybe entrepreneurship classes, how business loans work, startup costs…subjects that may interest them. Not English, vocabulary/spelling. A greater importance needs to be on social studies and how our Representative Republic is supposed to work, not the democrat hijack of “democracy” nonsense spewed.

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Nailed It

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any of our farm products come to us from the field covered in glyphosate and other bad stuff.

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No doubt about that, but I would rather eat vegetables than eat McDonalds or some other ultra-processed foods.

In a better America, we dont have to make the choice of possibly contaminated veggies v McDonalds.

As a child that was medicated on ritalin, and mass doses of adderal. Last resort is right. While it did help, the side effects, and pills they put you on for the side effects are even worse. I feel like every kid just being a kid is being put on medication these days! Good for you for being leary

It is hard to get prescriptions for barbiturates. The more commonly prescribed drugs are SSRIs and ADHD meds.

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Sadly this is because women typically enter the education workforce. Not that this is insidious, they just don’t understand boy behavior. They do not understand the educational system in the context of young boys, so the standardized testing system of education begins to fail them.

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All the teachers I know (including the women) think elementary kids need more recess time. They all think there needs to be less standardized testing. It's got nothing to do with women understanding boy behavior. Blame this mostly on politicians. They pass laws that many educators are stuck with. Blame it on high up education administrators. They pass policies that teachers are stuck with. This is not going to change until parents revolt and refuse to allow it anymore.

I appreciate all the responses...

Thanks...

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As a child that was medicated on ritalin, and mass doses of adderal. Last resort is right. While it did help, the side effects, and pills they put you on for the side effects are even worse.

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I had a similar experience.

I was diagnosed ADHD (I think it’s bs) and my parents kept me off any meds until 10th grade. I started out taking vyvanse then switched to 72 mg concerta.

I fricking hated that shite. It made me anti social, suppressed my appetite big time and I could barely sleep. The anti social aspect was really big, I didn’t want to talk to anyone and was always in a bad mood. Made me almost depressed feeling if that makes sense.

It didn’t really help me stay focused either as my mind was working overdrive on it so I was always day dreaming or bouncing around 100’s of different thoughts.

Got off it senior year and never taken that or adderral again. Went to college and got a masters degree so I turned out ok.

TLDR: do not put your kids on ADD meds that shite is awful

We live in an industrialized society. Our school systems were founded on the principles of producing soldiers and factory workers. Both jobs require absolute obedience and people to act as identical interchangeable parts who can communicate without speaking. Our education system selects for these skills and anyone who doesn’t conform to that mold is ostracized or medicated until they do.

Our medical psychology system isn’t meant to make people healthy, but rather to keep them productive, obedient, and identical. They don’t care about your happiness or long term health. Much like a sports medicine doctor, the goal is to get you back on the factory floor as fast as possible.

Pre-industrial society understood that there were more roles in life than soldier or interchangeable factory worker. There were roles in society that fit all kinds of people, and what education that did exist was not nearly as “one size fits all” as today’s hyper-specialized system.

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and we reward them for this

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Not saying I agree/disagree with you, but how so do you think we reward bad parenting? The problem seems that the American dream is recently promoted as it being all about yourself, instead of something bigger than yourself. Growing up, my grandfather was so invested in raising up his children and grandchildren, not just so we would have a better life, but that we would know how to thrive in life and keep it going. Today, that seems like a foreign concept.

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My wife (soon to be ex, getting separated) has been on Wellbutrin for 10 years. I absolutely think that shite contributed to our marriage failing.

She tries to downplay the side effects while also claiming she needs to be on it.

She admits that over the same time frame she has been less and less affectionate, etc but refuses to consider that it's to blame or even could be.

wtf.

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Those drugs can be major libido killers.