re: Scientist says ADHD is Bullsh*t

I love when these people point out their improved test scores as proof they have ADHD. While cocaine has proven to make me more active, it doesn't mean I had energy issues in the first place.

I thought it was insane that some guy on here entering med school was talking about how he felt compelled to get on adderall/vyvanse just to keep up with other med students. It's a performance enhancer now.

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I used to believe that it was a bullshite made up thing.

Then I married my wife.

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Same here. Going to the grocery store with mine is a 2 hour event.

ETA: Even if it is made up bullshite. If medication helps those people, who cares??

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Let’s go back 50 years. We have a 7-year-old child who is bored in school and disrupts classes. Back then, he was called lazy

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Back then he was lazy, got moved away from other students, did poorly in school, dropped out/didn't graduate. Now there is medication and doctors who follows them to insure they start seeing better performance in school and have the opportunity at a leg up.

Could much of it be solved with a military-like home life? Possibly. But that's not possible. There are medicines that are safe and improve performance. Where is the downside?

Good morning kids here is your sugary apple juice and a big bowl of sugar filled cereal. Now have a good day at school and try to focus extra hard today.

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I thought it was insane that some guy on here entering med school was talking about how he felt compelled to get on adderall/vyvanse just to keep up with other med students. It's a performance enhancer now.

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If I had taken Vyvanse in law school I would have absolutely crushed. I experienced it later.

I always say, if that stuff was around the last 500 years and every body was on it, frick the moon, we'd be colonizing Mars right now

The issue is there has been a serious drop in knots-yanked-in-asses since the 1950s.

Studies prove it.

Lack of knots in asses.

I was diagnosed with ADHD in 6th grade, which was in the late 80s. The doctor didn't just say "you probably have ADHD, here is a prescription", I had to be tested and had never heard of ADHD until my parents had to meet with my doctor to get the results of my test.

I can assure you it is not bullshite, however; it is extremely overdiagnosed.

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Compare the foods from 50 years ago to today.

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As a 52 year old with a near photographic memory I can assure you the food 50 years ago was LESS safe and had MORE hazardous shite in it. Food dyes now banned, canning practices now banned, preservatives now banned, higher salt, higher sugar (sucrose from cane and beets though not HFCS). Before ever getting to the factories for processing, more (quantity) and and more dangerous to human pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, hormones, antibiotics, he list goes on.

You may be referring to pre-WW1 and generally just after the real advent and acceptance of industrialized food though. Before WW1 most of America was self reliant for food. Canning was done in the kitchen using glass jars and people raised and slaughtered their own animals. The nation had a majority rural population till about the time of WW1 and it wasn't until after the war when the troops returned home and needed income when they did what all returning troops do (make babies) that cities bloomed into the population centers.

ADHD is a scam.
1. it increases the need for Psychologists and Psychiatrists
2. It increases demand for prescription drugs
3. It allows students to get extra time on exams and other testing aids, giving them an advantage in school
4. It allows them to qualify for disability benefits when they turn 18.

It is a scam to allow more people to get on the dole while making more money for big pharma.

Anyone, literally ANYONE, meets the criteria to be diagnosed with ADHD. Why? Because it is a made-up disease. We are literally drugging our children over a lie.