Surge in ADHD diagnoses gets a red flag – FRANCE 24: “Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), nearly one in 11 American children aged 13-18 and one in 25 adults are affected by ADHD.”
Is the overdiagnosis of ADHD any surprise at all? A few years back, Cracked.com ran a comedic piece on 6 diseases that have become Trendy. If I had any say in it ADHD would have made the list.
This isn’t of course to say that ADHD doesn’t exist. There is no doubt that there are people who due suffer from the disease, but suffering from it and using it as an excuse for bad behavior is simply unnacceptable. This is where apparently not only the United States but every other western nation is falling behind.
Routinely people use the excuse of I can’t do that because I have “blank” disease”. Or I cannot help myself because I’m a sex addict. First of all with the sex addict example there is this thing called restraint. After all Recovering Alcoholics know they cannot control themselves when it comes to alcohol, they remove themselves from the situation.
Or what about this man who blamed his beating of an infant on ADHD? Sorry but personal responsibility is just that a responsibility. If you cannot control yourself you remove yourself it is that easy.
There are situations where medications work but even then medication is not the end solution, it should be used as a tool to assist in the realm of self control not to be the means of control. When we put a name on a problem diagnosis it as a disease even if it is a real disease we remove power from the individual and give them the opportunity to fall victim to their disease instead of allowing them to bend the disease to their will and overcome all Obstacles.
To parents. Take responsibility for your kid. If you truly cannot instill responsibility go seek that help and see if your kid needs outside assistance and if that still isn’t working ask about medication by all means. Don’t however allow your children to become the victim of their own situation.
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