ADHD & Ritalin

Originally Posted by licoricepizza

Ritalin is great for focus, I'd say more so than amphetamine, like all stimulants it enhances concentration enormously, good for tasks like studying. I imagine that's why it's given to children as it doesn't have the 'mental' quality that amphetamines do. Like anything, taking it for too long does produce side-effects, but they're insignificant compared those you get when taking amphetamines for extended periods. Lack of sleep, or quality of sleep is the worst. That turns you more into a robot than the direct effect of the drugs themselves.
In terms of the morality of giving them to kids, I think you're right about it being in the drug companies interest to market and sell them.
Bad parenting is something that is not talked about in the press enough. It's ironic that as we become a more litigious, accountable and blame-obsessed culture, accountability for your children seems to be decreasing. Having no children myself, it's possibly wrong for me to comment, but that's my feeling on the subject..

Or possibly the greatest side-effects of all, neglecting the cause of the problem and deeming their behaviour as acceptable or letting children believe they have some kind of mental handicap.

Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy

Or possibly the greatest side-effects of all, neglecting the cause of the problem and deeming their behaviour as acceptable or letting children believe they have some kind of mental handicap.

True, you could almost go as far as to say it was fashionable to have an ADHD kid. Asthma's so 90s now.

What happened to the good old days of child behaviourial correction? Good old wooden spoon on the back of the legs or your dad's 3 inch wide leather belt across yer ass on a good day.

Originally Posted by Pedrosa

What happened to the good old days of child behaviourial correction? Good old wooden spoon on the back of the legs or your fathers's 3 inch wide leather belt across yer ass on a good day.

His holiness calls that special treatment in sunday school now

its crazy how they have a name for indiscipline IMO

[the_lone_wolf]

??? dont get it is that Ann Diamonds Half Daughter

[the_lone_wolf]

Originally Posted by SmudgeK3

??? dont get it is that Ann Diamonds Half Daughter

it's a little pink christina aguilera monster

I can't say as I know whether ADHD exists or not, but what I do suspect is that those claiming it doesn't don't have any medical background. I imagine the same discussions happened about Asperger's Syndrome, and Autism behind that. Even depression would be classified as a need to "pull yourself together yer great wuss" before it was realised there was an underlying physiological condition associated with the psychiatric symptoms.

It might exist, it might not, all I know is that a lot of medical people with far more knowledge than me reckon it does, and they have the beginnings, albeit farely basic, of a treatment of sorts.

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by neio79

IMO ADHT dont exist, naughty kids with no disapline in their lives and weak parents who cant control them and are to gutless to disapline them so look for a 'condition'

sorry if that causes offence to some on here but that is my opinion, and it wont change.

+1
A bit of a clip round the ear would be more effective than some wierd drugs