Certain irony
There is a certain irony concerning the naming of October as ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) Awareness Month.
Considering the lack of scientific evidence to support its existence, it's awareness of a condition that's never been scientifically proven. Comparisons have been drawn between ADHD and the Emperor’s New Clothes. It’s been 33 years since socalled ADHD was voted into
existence by the American Psychiatric Association.
It was a show of hands that gave the green light for its inclusion in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM): that however is called consensus. It's not science.
When all psychiatric rhetoric is stripped away, what psychiatrists have actually done is to redefine various aspects of behaviour as an illness that can be drugged. ADHD started out as a childhood disorder represented by children and adolescents who might have difficulty sustaining attention in tasks or play activities, who might lose things necessary for tasks or activities, who might get easily distracted, or who might talk excessively. The redefinition of normal behaviour represents an impressive marketing strategy that’s good business but bad medicine in my opinion.
Boisterous, argumentative or disruptive behaviour isn't a mental illness; being disorganised, procrastinating and impulsive isn’t either. The pseudoscience used by psychiatric authors in an effort to edit out humanity is, in my mind, blinding.
Psychiatrists have told people that “normal” could be restored by resolving a “chemical imbalance of the brain”. However there are no scientific tests that can be done to support the existence of a chemical imbalance.
There are just words. Expensive and damaging psychiatric drugs then enter the scene.
While it cannot be denied that some people do experience difficulties in life, it’s important to realise that the psychiatric industry and drug manufacturers have, as far as I am concerned, formed an unholy alliance that I believe puts business above real medicine Be fully informed to make that all-important choice for you or your child.
Brian Daniels. Citizens Commission on Human Rights (UK).
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