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[spoonitnow]

Bullshit propaganda by the absolute WORST organization in the universe....The American Psychological Association.

I don't make the rules. I just take advantage of them when they change.

There's no way they're worse than PETA.

[BananaStand]

There's no way they're worse than PETA.

They are.

Once up on a time 4,000 kids were diagnosed with ADD in the US each year.

Then Ritalin was invented, and now 400,000 kids are diagnosed each year.

You can't tell me that dumping paint on fur coats even compares to the profit-motivated exploitation of children.

And it's not just kids.

Once upon a time, if you ate alot of food at once, you were a gluttonous fat-ass.

Then they invented a drug that suppresses appetite.

Now, binge-eating is an actual clinical diagnosis.

Once upon a time, if your kid was just a pain in the ass, they would test him for Aspergers and charge the balls out of your insurance.

Then the DSM V came out and now...Aspergers is no longer a disease. Can you believe that? It's gone from the diagnostic manual. For years they have been testing and treating and drugging kids, and when they didn't make enough money from it, they dropped it from their repetoire.

Now there is a "spectrum". Meaning there are dozens of tests they can give your kid, and charge the balls out of your insurance. And while we're at it, let's start trying out various cocktails of medication to see which one zombifies your kid best.

Don't even get me started on this shit....

[spoonitnow]

They are.

Once up on a time 4,000 kids were diagnosed with ADD in the US each year.

Then Ritalin was invented, and now 400,000 kids are diagnosed each year.

You can't tell me that dumping paint on fur coats even compares to the profit-motivated exploitation of children.

And it's not just kids.

Once upon a time, if you ate alot of food at once, you were a gluttonous fat-ass.

Then they invented a drug that suppresses appetite.

Now, binge-eating is an actual clinical diagnosis.

Once upon a time, if your kid was just a pain in the ass, they would test him for Aspergers and charge the balls out of your insurance.

Then the DSM V came out and now...Aspergers is no longer a disease. Can you believe that? It's gone from the diagnostic manual. For years they have been testing and treating and drugging kids, and when they didn't make enough money from it, they dropped it from their repetoire.

Now there is a "spectrum". Meaning there are dozens of tests they can give your kid, and charge the balls out of your insurance. And while we're at it, let's start trying out various cocktails of medication to see which one zombifies your kid best.

Don't even get me started on this shit....

I was just carrying on, but I do agree with your general sentiment.

There are two relatively recent developments on the ADHD front that are of particular interest to the above issues with regards to handing out drugs like candy, etc.

First is that there's a lot of evidence that there are really two separate disorders that have been mistakenly assigned to the same thing. They are now known as ADHD-I and ADHD-H. Comorbidity rates for each with things like psychopathy are incredibly different, and effective treatment for each are also pretty different. Interestingly enough, the main guy (Russell Barkely) pushing for this distinction and the people who decide what goes in the DSM (and what doesn't) are very much at odds over this. He's also very much against handing out drugs like candy just because lol adhd.

Second is that we now have ways to confirm ADHD diagnoses with an EEG. One method involves the ratio of different frequencies of brain waves. What's so interesting about this is that neurofeedback therapy is showing some super serious promise in getting these shits back to how they're supposed to be permanently, which could become a literal cure for the whole situation. Can you guess where the ASA stands on that? lol

[BananaStand]

There are two relatively recent developments

First is that there's a lot of evidence

Second is that we now have ways to confirm ADHD diagnoses

is showing some super serious promise

All garbage. Science knows about 2% of what's going on upstairs. The rest is just guesses and bullshit 'conclusions' based on hardly-compelling stats. Ask poop what he thinks about "studies show 53% of those studied......"