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I have brought up four children and all of them have shown symptoms of ADHD.
What I mean is on occasion I have been exasperated with their behaviour and if I was really really stupid I could have got them carted off to the doctor and like 3-5% of children got them dosed up with Ritalin.
This would mean that instead of realising that I needed to sort out various strategies to address/change their behaviour (or parenting as we used to call it in the old days) I could say 'I can't do anything with him/her 'cos he/she has ADHD innit' and the kid could spend the next few years ruining other kids education by kicking off in class and saying 'the ADHD made me do it'!
It's a bit like the opioid crisis - drug companies looking for a market for their drugs.
Ritalin was first approved for medical use in the United States in 1955 and used to treat conditions such as chronic fatigue and depression in adults.
With improvements in anti-depressants and the introduction of SSRIs in the late 80s there was little use for Ritalin.
'Fortunately' in 1987 the American Psychological Association (APA) in a a revised version of the DSM-III (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) invented the 'diagnosis' of ADHD.
It was characterised by a short attention span, hyperactivity, and restlessness (or being children growing up as I call it).
'Fortunately' there was just the drug to treat this - Ritalin - and the rest is history with a whole generation of kids trying to grow up whilst being out of their heads pushed down their throats by Big Pharma.
To paraphrase Life of Brian 'He's not got ADHD, he's a very naughty boy!
and the chances are he'll grow out of it.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
