Opinions on ADD/ADHD?

Question

So I've got a research paper to do and my thesis is "Prescribing children medication designed to control ADD/ADHD when they only exibit few symptoms is child abuse." The paper will focus on how some children are on ADD/ADHD mediciation only because their parents/teachers felt they were to hard to handle and want them medicated and more easily control. What's your opinion on the subject?

Answer 1

Speaking as someone who has been diagnosed with ADHD and having been on medication for the past 16 years, the benefits to prescribing Ritalin, Focalin, Concerta, etc do exist so long as the child is being mentored by a physician or psychopharmacologist who can get the medication and dosages correctly. However, I do believe there is also a percentage of children that are being prescribed medication for ADD/ADHD unnecessarily. My theory is that you have a child whose parent(s) work throughout the day. At the end of the day, the parents are wiped, but the child is wound up from the day's events. Not wanting to have to deal with the child's energy, the parent has the child quickly diagnosed with ADD/ADHD, then makes sure the child is prescribed medication so that in the future, the rest of the parent's time at home with the kids are not as frustrating in the parent's perspective. Of course, the way the medication works is to rectify the chemical imbalance in the brain that causes ADD, so if the diagnosis is incorrect and the child doesn't have ADD, the problems can only be further exacerbated now that the child has needless medication flowing through his or her body.

Answer 2

i be attentive to of countless people who're helped via those drugs. persons that categorical an opinion that they are undesirable have by no potential suffered from adhd/upload or LIVED with somebody that has adhd/upload! individuals are too rapid to bypass judgement! My son has adhd, yet isn't medicated as he's handling ok in college. If his situation turns into worse then i might relatively evaluate drugs. adhd is a nightmare to stay with and his situation badly impacts our life. i'm no longer a foul parent, however the adhd pushes the superb man or woman to the restrictions of coping! adhd/upload meds are not appropriate, yet whilst they be waiting to restoration some normality to the sufferer and the kin then they might desire to take transport of. extra examine into the issue to adhd/upload meds is presently being performed and extra appropriate drugs will emerge over the years.

Answer 3

I really wish that was the case. My child is 6 with adhd. There is not a day that goes by where I dont feel bad for him. I really dont mind him at home going crazy climbing all over the place a little stressful but I am a mother and it is my job. However the school department dont feel the same way. He is getting kicked out of school. Standing on toilets, picking up desks, hurting children, . The thing is he likes to hurt people. We try taking things away the spankings. But what do you do when there mentally not stable. He says things like I want to kill myself. So he is going to the dr tuesday. When your worried your child will hurt himself or someone else. It is time to do something besides discipline. However I do beleive there are children that shouldnt be on meds but I am no dr.

Answer 4

Well, I actually had a classmate in the 9th grade with ADHD. She was smart (one of the smartest in our class), so her parents thought, "oh, our kid is smart, why does she need medication? shes fine."

but the really sad thing is that even though she got good grades and such, even with ADHD, she lacked social skills quite a lot, and it was noticable that her case of ADHD did not affect her grades but the way she acted was obvious she might have needed to take it. She would sometimes scream random things in the middle of class, and could not keep a thought in her head--she said everything she though, as she thought it, disturbing our class. But no one said anything because we all knew she had the ADHD.

and even though all kids might be wild, as the user above me suggested, we were in the 9TH GRADE. As teenagers, we knew to raise our hand when we wanted to speak, and say please and thankyou, and interact normally. people who are against ADHD medicatoin sometimes only look at young children, when its really important to look at the long term effect, because ADHD can follow you throughout your life if not treated.

so, its not always the teachers that just want to control the kids, sometimes they actually DO need it to function and have social interactions normally. It can also affect the people around them, and their social lives--she might not ever have a real friend, just because she has this problem which affects her social skills.

i hope that helped!

Answer 5

I honestly don't believe there is such a thing as ADD or ADHD. I mean, aren't ALL kids wild? Don't they ALL go through phases where they are just little Energizer Bunnies?

Too many kids are diagnosed as ADD/ADHD these days...so many, that I wonder if it's truly a disease or just part of being a child.

As for your question: I think it's borderline on abuse to give them medications for it (even if they have tons of symptoms of ADD/ADHD). I believe that only because there are so many alternatives to medication for "hyper children".

Answer 6

Most over-diagnosed disease in human history, if it exist at all.

ADD/ADHD grew right along with an increase in:
1-parents who wanted to be their child's friend instead of parent
2-government dependence
3-single parent households. I am not bashing single mothers, (!!!) but let's not pretend that it is as easy for one parent to properly raise and discipline a child as it is for two.

Over-medicating kids is true abuse.
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