| Since there really is no definitive way of diagnosing this | | | | reason to drug a child! |
| so called affliction, the psychiatric profession has | | | | ALTERNATIVE PHYSICIANS STRONGLY OPPOSE |
| seized on a series of standardized, and highly | | | | DRUGGING CHILDREN |
| subjective questionnaires to determine whether or not | | | | Researching the issue, revealed very quickly that not a |
| a child has ADD/ADHD. Observations from parents | | | | single alternative physician surveyed, among those |
| and teachers are also used in reaching a conclusion. | | | | who have demonstrated success in treating ADD |
| Hardly a scientific process | | | | ADHD, has ever found it necessary to put a child on |
| Think about it. As a child, were you ever reprimanded | | | | Ritalin to control this disorder. Instead, they have looked |
| for any of these? | | | | at, and identified the factors surrounding the symptoms |
| - Nonstop talking. | | | | producing the misdiagnosis of ADD/ADHD. These |
| - Dreaming: Sitting at your desk and staring into space. | | | | include, but are not limited to: |
| - Not paying attention | | | | - Hearing & vision problems |
| - Being easily distracted. Trouble staying focused. | | | | - Learning disabilities |
| - Not listening when spoken to. | | | | - Gifted child who might be bored in school |
| - Difficulty in remembering things and failing to follow | | | | - Disgraphia, difficulties in writing |
| instructions. | | | | - Mental retardation |
| - Problems with staying organized, planning ahead, and | | | | - Personality conflicts (with teacher or other students) |
| finishing projects. | | | | - Depression |
| - Frequently losing or misplacing homework, books, or | | | | - Childhood psychosis |
| other items. | | | | - Oppositional defiant disorder |
| - Constant fidgeting and squirming. | | | | - Tourette's syndrome |
| - Leaving your seat often when sitting quietly is | | | | - Autism |
| expected. | | | | - Pervasive developmental disorder |
| - Moving around too much, running, or climbing | | | | - Instability at home (Illness, death of a family member, |
| inappropriately. | | | | frequent moves, divorce) |
| - Always "on the go." Blurting out answers without | | | | - Seizures |
| waiting to hear the whole question. | | | | - Lead poisoning |
| - Difficulty waiting your turn. You have? More than | | | | - Iron deficiency |
| eight? Well land sakes, you've got ADD/ADHD!! Who | | | | - Medications |
| says? Why the "experts" at the American Psychiatric | | | | - Allergies |
| Association who are very "expert" at hanging labels on | | | | - Zinc deficiency, particularly in boys |
| anything and everything that has anything at all to do | | | | - Chronic disease |
| with human behavior. So just go ahead now and sit in | | | | - Thyroid disorder |
| the corner with a few of your peers: | | | | - Substance abuse |
| - Bill Gates | | | | - Sleep disturbances, or not enough sleep ADD/ADHD |
| - Lindsey Wagner | | | | A PHONY DISEASE |
| - Albert Einstein | | | | Reviewing this abbreviated list of possible causes of |
| - Eleanor Roosevelt | | | | conflicting behaviors in children seems to definitively |
| - Michael Jordan | | | | establish that ADD/ADHD is by and large a pseudo |
| - Ludwig van Beethoven | | | | disease invented by interests intent on profiting from it. |
| - Dustin Hoffman | | | | And it's no coincidence that expenditures for Ritalin and |
| - Terry Bradshaw | | | | related drugs are up 122% over the past four years. |
| - Ansel Adams | | | | These numbers will increase, possibly exponentially, |
| - Ann Bancroft | | | | every year, unless parents take control! The |
| - Alexander Graham Bell | | | | symptoms of this pretty much phony disease are |
| - Dwight D. Eisenhower | | | | generally simply a bunch of normal childhood behaviors |
| - Abraham Lincoln | | | | labeled as a "disease" by psychiatrists either too |
| - Whoopi Goldberg | | | | myopic to see the real issue, too self seeking to care |
| - Tom Cruise | | | | about over medicating kids, or simply too stupid to |
| - Elvis Presley | | | | understand the underlying problem. |
| - Bill Cosby | | | | ONLY IN AMERICA! |
| - John F. Kennedy | | | | What is also interesting is that ADD/ADHD is a purely |
| - Prince Charles | | | | American phenomenon, with 85% of the world's supply |
| - Alfred Hitchcock | | | | of Ritalin being used on American children, who are no |
| - Napoleon Bonaparte The list can go on to fill a nice | | | | different from children in other countries! In the opinion |
| fat book of fine print. So it would appear that ADD | | | | of Dr Julian Whitaker, one of the nation's leading |
| ADHD is a gift, not an affliction! | | | | alternative physicians, " Pediatricians, psychiatrists, and |
| WHY ARE CHILDREN DIAGNOSED WITH ADD | | | | other doctors who are putting children on mood and |
| ADHD? AND HOW? | | | | behavior altering drugs are more dangerous to our |
| The number one reason for diagnosing a child as | | | | society than illegal drug peddlers. They are destroying |
| afflicted with ADD/ADHD (and the subsequent | | | | our children, robbing their souls, and mortgaging our |
| drugging of the child) seems to be for the convenience | | | | future." |
| of parents and teachers. Their mental capacity often | | | | KIDS ARE KIDS AND ACT LIKE THEM. SHOULD |
| exceeds that of their elders who are frustrated in their | | | | THEY BE ANY DIFFERENT? |
| inability to deal with it. These kids in turn feel frustrated | | | | Kids get colds. They get tummy aches. They |
| because they lack the life experience, the acquired | | | | misbehave. Didn't you? But that's no reason to put |
| knowledge and education, and the motor skills required | | | | them on drugs! Alternative medicine is swimming in |
| for matching their actions to their minds. They are | | | | safe, natural therapies for common childhood |
| growing asymetricallymentally as well as physically. It's | | | | conditions that do not expose our children to life |
| something we all do in the process of maturing. It's no | | | | altering pharmacological substances. |