It is science. He fact that it's not 100% efficient doesn't invalidate it. If you think it does, look up "numbers needed to treat". Medical science takes positions based on populations. Not the outliers.
The DSM is "science?" By whose standards? Those taking the making the initial "diagnosis?" Those populations are still self-described. I've seen the descriptors for what they qualify as ADHD. That is no, "science." Please, spare us.
What the following describes is a precocious child that is expected to act like an "adult" in a corporate setting.
Diagnostic criteria for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
(DSM IV - TR)
(cautionary statement)
A. Either (1) or (2):
(1) inattention: six (or more) of the following symptoms of inattention have persisted for at least 6 months to a degree that is maladaptive and inconsistent with developmental level:
(a) often fails to give close attention to details or makes careless mistakes in schoolwork, work, or other activities
(b) often has difficulty sustaining attention in tasks or play activities
(c) often does not seem to listen when spoken to directly
(d) often does not follow through on instructions and fails to finish school work, chores, or duties in the workplace (not due to oppositional behavior or failure to understand instructions)
(e) often has difficulty organizing tasks and activities
(f) often avoids, dislikes, or is reluctant to engage in tasks that require sustained mental effort (such as schoolwork or homework)
(g) often loses things necessary for tasks or activities (e.g., toys, school assignments, pencils, books, or tools)
(h) is often easily distracted by extraneous stimuli
(i) is often forgetful in daily activities
(2) hyperactivity-impulsivity: six (or more) of the following symptoms of hyperactivity-impulsivity have persisted for at least 6 months to a degree that is maladaptive and inconsistent with developmental level:
Hyperactivity
(a) often fidgets with hands or feet or squirms in seat
(b) often leaves seat in classroom or in other situations in which remaining seated is expected
(c) often runs about or climbs excessively in situations in which it is inappropriate (in adolescents or adults, may be limited to subjective feelings of restlessness)
(d) often has difficulty playing or engaging in leisure activities quietly
(e) is often "on the go" or often acts as if "driven by a motor"
(f) often talks excessively
Impulsivity
(g) often blurts out answers before questions have been completed
(h) often has difficulty awaiting turn
(i) often interrupts or intrudes on others (e.g., butts into conversations or games)
B. Some hyperactive-impulsive or inattentive symptoms that caused impairment were present before age 7 years.
C. Some impairment from the symptoms is present in two or more settings (e.g., at school [or work] and at home).
D. There must be clear evidence of clinically significant impairment in social, academic, or occupational functioning.
E. The symptoms do not occur exclusively during the course of a Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Schizophrenia, or other Psychotic Disorder and are not better accounted for by another mental disorder (e.g., Mood Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, Dissociative Disorders, or a Personality Disorder).
They are diagnosing kids with this in pre-school, kindergarten, and first grade. No, really!
The thing to remember, is all brains work differently. Yet we have one establishment, one system. In this system, teachers, administrators, bosses, and bureaucrats expect everyone to look, act, think, feel and behave the same. Well, you know what, nature doesn't work like that. Nature is about variety. That is how it works. Some people have black hair, some have brown, some have curly, some have straight. How brains and personalities take in information, sort it, process and learn is just as varied. There are active learners, passive learners, visual learners, passive learners. People that are good are getting things from books, from lectures, etc. So if some kids get bored sitting still in one place for five minutes at the age of five, ten, fifteen, and need to get up and walk around and laugh and play a bit . . . well, that's AGAINST THE RULES!
CHEMICAL LOBOTOMY TIME!
When they start people on drugs and mess with their brain chemistry early in life? Well, at that point, it's all over. You're pretty much screwed for life. And speaking of brain chemistry. . . . for everyone else out there, it is time to rise up and question the establishment. What is in the food, and the water. YES, we have some real problem. But the other animals in the animal kingdom are not suffering like we are. We have done it to our selves. I can not imagine WHY we continue to let them poison our water like we do for so long. I won't get into the whole FLUORIDE debate here, but needles to say, it screws you up for life. There is a Harvard study out there proving what it does to your IQ. There was a reason the NAZI's and Stalin gave it to their populations.
And then there is what they add to the food. The nasty food additives are not good for anyone. Before the people on here start going on about how badly they need drugs, yes, perhaps they do at this point. Like I said, brains are all different. Some peoples brains are VERY sensitive to different poisons and chemicals. My son was very active, and distractable at an early age. He has an extremely high intelligence and wild imagination.
The system wanted me to give him a chemical lobotomy. What kid get suspended from school in Kindergarten?
What a bunch of tight asses. They wanted him on drugs even then. Child abuse I tell you. (The same educational establishment that preaches "Just say NO?" Fucking hypocrites. ) And the teachers bitched about him in first grade too. His mother and I relented and had him tested. And of course the "doctors" said that he had "ADHD," or some bullshit or other like that. But we just took him to a program of special parental parenting interaction, and I did diet research, and found out it was mostly just his diet. The shit corporations put in food today is toxic, especially for the young. That and FLUORIDE of course. So I just got him on a children's multivitamin, organic food, cut out all additive and preservatives and focused on parent/child interaction and gave him a chance to grow up, and he is a perfectly well adjusted straight A student now.
Plus he is taller and stronger than 95% of his class mates.
Junk Foods Cause 'Mental Illness'
http://www.healthy.net/Health_News/Junk_Foods_Cause_Mental_Illness/8164
Mental illness, which really boils down to unusual and socially 'unacceptable' behavior and ideas, may be caused by wrong nutrition, according to some recent studies reported in the UK press.
"Food can have an immediate and lasting effect on mental health and behaviour because of the way it affects the structure and function of the brain".
The Mental Health Foundation says scientific studies have clearly linked attention deficit disorder, depression, Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia to junk food and the absence of essential fats, vitamins and minerals in industrialised diets.
A further report, Changing Diets, Changing Minds, is also published today by Sustain, the organisation that campaigns for better food. It warns that the NHS bill for mental illness, at almost £100bn a year, will continue to rise unless the government focuses on diet and the brain in its food, farming, education and environment policies.
"Food can have an immediate and lasting effect on mental health and behaviour because of the way it affects the structure and function of the brain," Sustain's report says. Its chairman, Tim Lang, said: "Mental health has been completely neglected by those working on food policy. If we don't address it and change the way we farm and fish, we may lose the means to prevent much diet-related ill health."
The establishment is poisoning EVERYONE with their food and water. Some people are more resistant to it than others. The rich can afford to eat better than the poor, and I think if you do the research, you will find that their rates of "mental illness" are substantially lower than the poor.
I love Huxley. Oh he predicted it, he was RIGHT SMACK ON THE MONEY!
"And if ever, by some unlucky chance, anything unpleasant should somehow happen, why, there's always soma to give you a holiday from the facts. And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears-that's what soma is."
Soma in Aldous Huxley's
Brave New World
http://www.huxley.net/soma/somaquote.html
