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Essential Tips For Parents Of A Child With ADHD
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The Medications Involved
There’s a good chance that you were never told about the large number of pharmaceuticals and medications being developed to treat your child. As the profit of medications exceeds the best interest of your child, it is hard to find someone to trust. That even goes for the information available online or through scientific sources. The root cause of this is the pharmaceutical industry, which represents itself as a scientific entity but is really a corporation out to make money. Modern medicine is at the mercy of these industries, and sometimes money wins over your best interests.
Is It Really a Disorder?
The concept that children are being pigeon-holed into diagnoses to sell drugs is not a new idea. It leads us to question whether some children are being given a diagnosis in order to sell more prescription drugs. The fact remains that many children exhibiting symptoms of ADHD are “just being kids,” and some may even be too intelligent for or bored with the typical curriculum. There are no standardized tests for determining if a child has ADHD, and so it leaves a lot of room for error. If ADHD is the automatic, catch-all for bad behavior, you run the risk of having a child live under the burden of a false diagnosis. It means that some kids will forever be shackled with the label “ADHD.” Having ADHD isn’t necessary a bad thing or one that will hold your child back, but it needs to be a legitimate condition, not a label automatically applied to a child who is acting out.
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