ADHD in the United States

Did you know that there has been a 42% increase in ADHD diagnosis over the past 8 years as well as more than 5% of children in the United States are being treated for ADHD with medication? That means that 6.4 million american children from age 4 to 17 have been diagnosed with ADHD! Research states that those living below the poverty line are more susceptible to have ADHD. The fact that the conditions Attention Deficit Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and Oppositional defiant disorder have become more prevalent in our society should make every American question the reasons as to why these disorders were never such a big issue hundreds of years ago. If we look back in American history, we only start to see true diagnosis and treatment of such conditions in the mid 50s and even then, the condition was vaguely diagnosed. When using the same diagnostic criteria (DSM) to diagnose children in other countries, the widespread presence of these disorders were slightly lower, but the criteria is so general, that if the world population took the diagnostic criteria, more than a third of the world would fall victim to these disorders and would have to be placed on medications to treat their symptoms.

The thing that boggles my mind is how fast these doctors are willing to prescribe such medications to patients who have only been attending their care for a short period of time. There is rarely any precautionary statements that parents are told as far as the dangers of these manufactured medications that are so widely being administered to children across the US. The pharmaceutical companies simply want the parents to buy the medications to help better their children's lives. This way of retailing their poison is to the population stimulates a sense of unnoticed inferiority so that the anti authoritarian minds, that could possibly change the world, are hushed out of existence and is instead drugged by authoritarians to assist people that supposedly have disabilities. The absurdity of such brainwashing is only meant to fill the pockets of the elite with their answer to all your problems pill and dumb down the future revolutionists. The dark lies that they have been telling poor victims that can barely afford medications for every little problem that they supposedly have must be exposed.

It is unbelievable to see the radical shift that has been taking place in this country ever since Big Pharma has been supposedly treating people to help them with their problems. If a child has too much fun playing and is running around, give him some ritalin; if a man is unhappy with his size, give him a magical pill to reduce the size of his body. Unfortunately, there are many doctors that do not devote their time to the patients they have for to be consistent in checking in with the well being of their patients and instead care about the money they will get by prescribing medication. "Most doctors don't want to see anyone suffer, so it is our instinct to really try to help people," Avitzur said. "At the same time, we're very busy nowadays in practices, and patients don't get the same face-to-face time that perhaps they did 10, 20 years ago. And so in a way it's easier to write a prescription than to have to go into a lengthy discussion about why I'm not going to write you a prescription (Cohn). Some of these Doctors shouldnt be considered Doctors if they simply went to school to gain the right to prescribe life changing medication to their patients. There has to be a different approach that doctors must take if they truly want to be faithful to their patients.

Doctors should first and foremost be an ear to hear out the situation and should help their patients understand that prescribed medication is the last resort to assist them with their problem. Depression runs rampant in our ever increasing authoritarian society, and it only gets worse because it is being treated by professionals as a dire condition and is in some cases as a disease. To sum up what doctors think of depression, to them it is a mental health disorder characterized by persistently depressed mood or loss of interest in activities, causing significant impairment in daily life. People who are experiencing depression were never born with this mental health disorder, something triggered their depression, and everyone can get over depression because it is simply prolonged sadness. Many depressed people choose to stay in that state of mind, some of them may rely on medications to cure them of their condition, and others decide to find something in their walk of life that will assist them to get over whatever they are going through. A study on depression reveals that, To better understand how depression arises, the researchers looked for specific causes within the brain cells. This led them to a small organelle found within brain cells called mitochondria.

Mitochondria are the main source of energy for cells, but they also help to regulate brain function (Frontiers). There are numerous studies on herbal remedies that can raise ATP production in the brain such as D-Ribose and Black Ant Extract that will assist in overall health, but it will not eliminate all of your problems, nothing will, they are merely meant to assist you with health and boost your positive attitude if you have one. Instead of some doctors doing hard research to prove their case, they want to hear whatever scratches their itching ears so they can just look at you silly and shut you up with a prescription to a medication that will essentially worsen your problems while smiling and saying everything will be alright if you take this pill and come back for refills. Most doctors nowadays do not want to hear the words, what are the side effects? It is unfortunate that many doctors just want money in their pockets so they give you whatever will temporarily relieve your problems. The corruption of these pharmaceutical companies do not get as much attention as they should, especially due to the large scale production and distribution rate of these brain altering chemicals in the United States alone.

The doctors who are administering these drugs rarely divert the attention of their patients to other remedies that can not only be beneficial to their health, but also to assist their ability to recover. What a better way to maintain the status quo than to view inattention, anger, anxiety, and depression as biochemical problems of those who are mentally ill rather than normal reactions to an increasing authoritarian society. Do we really want to diagnose and medicate everyone with deficits in rule governed behavior? Americans have been increasingly socialized to equate inattention, anger, anxiety, and immobilizing despair with a medical condition and to seek medical treatment rather that political remedies (Levine). If we take a step back and look at the rate at which opioids have taken the lives of people across the US, we realize that along with these opioid related deaths, there is an almost identical overprescription rate of opioids to civilians who have do not need such drugs for their whatever injury or condition they have. Opioids are not the only drugs destroying lives of people around us, but also drugs such as Adderall and Ritilin being prescribed to people who supposedely have ADHD and ADD. The reasons why doctors could possibly be following the patterns of their fellow co-workers is speculated to be due to a large influence of ideas in a local social network known as small area variation, which basically refers to the fact that doctors in similar communities make treatment decisions simply based on the habits and practices of those in their immediate vicinity.

These studies suggest that physician behavior is therefore influenced by social signals and not always governed by evidence, best practice, or guidelines. It's highly likely that patterns of both antibiotic and opioid prescription are similarly subject to this same kind of social network effect (Gorman). There needs to be some form of variation in opinion for these doctors to make a substantial impact in their community and do their jobs the correct way. If the world is full of doctors who are insane, there would not be any change in it. We live in the age of technological advancements and where we have access to any particular piece of information in the world at our fingertips, but yet many of us solely look to the authoritarians for their guidance and not at the abundance of resources at our expense. The term mentally ill has been redefined to fit the perception of those who have the right to diagnose individuals as mentally ill. Authoritarians, by definition, demand unquestioning obedience, and so any resistance to their diagnosis and treatment created enormous anxiety for authoritarian mental health professionals feeling out of control, labeling them noncompliant with treatment, increased the severity of their diagnosis and jacked up their medications (Levine). When society attempts to address these issues and question authority, they are treated as enemies of the state and cannot express the truth or even assist families that just want to be cared for and not treated as lab rats. The main issues that we need to be addressing are the roots of the problems these people are having trouble dealing with, not just giving drugs to temporarily suppress them. If society is full of authoritarians, then freedom will be exempt from our vocabulary as well as the future Einsteins and Martin Luther King Jr.s.

A highly controversial topic that has already been studied, that has been in denial by pharmaceutical practicioners is the debate on whether or not ADHD medications cause long-term side effects that can be detrimental to overall health. Using logic, we know that every single man made drug affects us negatively some way, shape, or form. The damage may be minute depending on the drug and its purpose, but it will alter the chemistry in our brain forever. There have been various studies on numerous ADHD medications, one being methylphenidate, which is otherwise known as Ritalin which is commonly recommended to children with ADHD. One study states that 1% of children on the medication has had adverse events rated as serious included psychotic symptoms, cardiac arrhythmia, and death. Storeb?? and the other researchers noted the high prevalence of other side effects as well, such as insomnia and appetite suppression, which occurred in more than half of the children taking the drug (Simons).

This study alone should strike fear in the minds of every parent who is fully aware that their child is being medicated with such medication. This places a dark overtone as to what these medications are capable of doing as well as how they can change the life of an innocent child who is unaware of the true reason as to why he is on such medications in the first place. According to the authors: We found that studies funded by pharmaceutical companies had a much lower proportion of both serious and non-serious adverse events. Of course we would see a large scale coverup on the studies done by the pharmaceutical companies themselves because they simply want to make a quick buck by having it being prescribed to children. Money equals power and if they have the power to hush the truth from being spread by these many whistle blowers, then they will do so without remorse because they are gaining an average of $515 billion per year.

Some of the side effects that are caused due to taking prescribed ADHD, ADD, and medications for depression are not only affecting the individual taking them themselves, but the people around them as well. Yes we may see the child who is having an adverse side effect from such medications which may have a parent make a cry for help for seeing their child suffer, but there are other circumstances in which the child and or adolescent may affect the world around them. On February 5, 2010, in Huntsville Alabama, a student named Hammad Memon who was only 15 years old, shot and killed another middle school student while being treated with anti-depressants and ADHD medication for years prior to the incident. In January 19, 2007, a teenage named John Odgren stabbed a student in his highschool in the boys bathroom with a kitchen knife to death. His father while in court gave evidence that his son was being prescribed Ritalin. These are just a small percentage of horrific stories that have occurred within the past 20 years alone. In an article on antidepressants, In a study of thirty-one drugs that are disproportionately linked to reports of violence toward others, five of the top ten are antidepressants. These are Prozac, Paxil, Luvox, Effexor and Pristiq. Two other drugs that are for treating ADHD are also in the top ten which means these are being given to children who could then become violent. One could conclude from this study alone that antidepressants cause both suicidal thoughts and violent behavior. This is a prescription for mass shootings(CCHR). We should be more aware of the likelihood of incidents of mass shootings and suicide occuring when people take such medications. Just remember, these doctors are prescribing people a concoction of mind altering drugs that change lives forever.

Treating ADHD, ADD, and depression with homeopathic remedies can make a positive impact not only in ones health, but also how they react to their condition. Taking vitamin and mineral supplements such as vitamin B6 and 12, zinc and iron, vitamin C and magnesium can greatly increase productivity, attention span, and increases the production of dopamine in the brain to give pleasure to the more productive. Overall, diet has makes one of the biggest contributions to how someone with ADHD and depression react to everyday life. Eating regularly (yet not constantly snacking) helps to control blood sugar. This helps to avoid focus and attention issues, irritability, and low physical energy that come with unstable blood sugar levels...Some ADHD characteristics make eating regularly challenging. For example, hyper-focusing might mean you forget to eat because you are so engrossed in your activity. Tasks like meal planning and grocery shopping can be difficult.

In addition, ADHD medication can suppress your appetite (Sinfield). If an individual who has been diagnosed with ADHD and is prescribed medications and has great expectations that the medication will solve their attention span and hyperactivity problems, yet eats processed, man made, genetically modified foods all day everyday for many years, that person will never get off the medication and will most likely be recommended to take other medications for help larger problems they are creating for themselves. If someone else decides to take the self medication route by not taking any medications prescribed to them by doctors and they eat live foods, nutrient rich and antioxidant based superfoods, regularly gets excersise and has a good sleep/wake cycle, then i am positive that that person will never need to take prescribed medications a day in their life because they are positively impacting their future health by being aware of their circumstances and everything they do with and put their body through.

The DSM 5 criteria that is used to diagnose someone with ADHD can probably be used to diagnose every single person in the United States alone with ADHD. Everyone has their own unique personality and can live life without being supported by a crutch that doctors are offering to supposedely assist people with their everyday lives. Human beings are aware that life is an emotional roller coaster and with highs and lows. Just because someone is going through something in a low part of their life, does not mean that it should define who that individual is as a person. Everyone should live their God given life here on earth with the personality they have developed into without strings being attached to the hands of an ever increasing authoritarian community of elites that assist in governing the lives of the innocent. When we have authoritarians limiting our access to knowledge by dumbing the general population down with such medications, we have a large scale epidemic of pandemonium that roars through a society full of ostriches. We need to educate people, if they are willing of course, to be more aware about what these pharamacuetical companies are doing to human beings and how they are reshaping and worsening the future we will one day live in.

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