ADHD and many other “disorders” are the inventions of lazy parents.

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Big pharma has made over $13 Billion and counting on ADHD meds alone. Good luck trying to follow the money trail, you cant even find Leandro Panizzon‘s networth.

#92 yeah. There's a ton of money being made in the "medical" business

ADHD does exist, but the definition has become so broad it might as well not exist...

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The American Psychiatric Association has existed since 1844. It’s not until recent decades that they have “discovered” over 450 “disorders”. The overall heath of people has improved drastically since then. But world economics has changed drastically during that time as well. As health improved the health industry (especially in the States) had to look for new streams of revenue. Like faith-healers, it preys upon the vulnerable tapping their bank accounts and draining them of their money. If you visit the ER, you must be treated even if you can’t afford treatment, but you will still be billed. If you cannot pay your medical bills it is turned over to collections and your credit score decreases.

In the US, medical debt is among the most common and highest of debts. It’s the “gift that keeps on giving “.

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Gregg, sometimes you REALLY annoy the he__ out of me but at least, you are NEVER boring!

me who has adhd

Far from knowing everything, I'll still express my limited point of view on the matter:

ADHD has to be somehow a mislabel. Kids (and adults with same disorder) would keep getting hit by cars and buses, not to mention other vehicles and people, if that was such a thing, as they would not be able to pay attention.

But that's sure the extreme. I can understand lesser dramatic situations may occur, where someone's attention seems not to work out properly.

Yet the question: is it not only when some annoying adult tries to force teach some kid who fears no serious punishement nor retaliation, and will miss no reward they truly care about, that the disorder strikes in?

For I've seen adults, graduated from hgh school, unable to learn how pieces move at chess, for being so deeply convinced that "chess is complicated", which disabled their capacity to understand or memorize the King's walk, or the pawn's walk.

One need to understand, that the adults I'm talking about, expressed the desire to learn the basics of chess. Did they lie? Or did their subconcience trick them into biaised cognitive function that did not happen when learning stuff at school?

There is that joke: if you want to be left alone with chores, volunteer for dishwashing with enthusiasm, then break "accidentally" a few plates. They'll never ask you again to wash the dishes.

How many cases of so called ADHD are actually a variation of the "break the plates and never bother the chore again"?

The biggest problem of both psychiatry and psychology, is that is doesn't have telepathy for tool. It is hence almost impossible to know for sure what's going on "in there".

You have never annoyed or bored me.

I don’t. I have money.