When I was in grade school, I was one of the only kids I knew in my class who was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder and put on Ritalin. That was not a fun experience. It did help my concentration in school but Ritalin made me feel nauseated and often times very depressed. As I reached adulthood, I stopped taking the medication and in time I learned to concentrate on my own. So when I look back I am not so sure I ever really needed to be on medication at all. Nowadays, it seems like doctors are so quick to diagnose a kid with ADD, if he or she has any kind of attention problem and prescribe then with Ritalin or Adderall. I haven't read too much literature on this recently, but it seems like we still don't know what the long term affects can be from medicating kids at such a young age. Do you think we going overboard with diagnosing ADD these days and prescribing medication, or is ADD really a growing problem?
2006-07-30
12:16:39
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