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 Opinion of people with adhd. (9)

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Opinion of people with adhd.

I myself have adhd and out of curiosity i'm just wondering what people with no dissorders think about them.

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I think it's kind of a bullshit disorder. Certainly an over-diagnosed one.

5mg (very small) pills of adderall (add/adhd meds) have a perforation so you can break them into 2.5mg halves. Why? So you can give them to 3 year old children. Why would a parent give their toddler legal meth? Because "he has trouble concentrating."

Bullshit.

What child doesn't have difficulty concentrating on something?

I'd say maybe one in ten people I've met who are currently on some crack-like prescription for add or adhd actually needs the medication. Everyone else could handle their problem with some quiet music, breathing exercises, and perhaps some incense. We live in a pharmaceutical nation. You're too sad? Take a pill. You're distracted? Take a pill. You have habits? Take a pill.

Well here's some news: everyone gets sad; everyone gets distracted; everyone has habits. This doesn't mean you need to take a pill that (for example) is 75% of everything in meth(amphetamine <--adderall) every day for the rest of your life. You just need to handle your shit.

I speak as someone who turned down OCD medication because I feel like I can handle my OCD naturally, and I speak as someone who spent 2 years of his life effectively addicted to the legal meth we give to 3 year olds because they can't focus.

Kite626(714) Clarified
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I agree that it's over diagnosed. I myself am prescribed to 70mg vyvanse, and 20mg booster adderal. I myself dislike the fact of medication but i have screwed my life over because of my animalistic behavior. The actual disorder though is not bullshit do research on it, we have a lack of dopamine levels and serotonin levels which are the chemical balance in your frontal cortex that controls pleasure happiness concentration and more. I'm living in a mind that feels nothing but false emotions, i make straight a's never fail tests but i am my own enemy in a lot of ways.

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Whereas I'm at the opposite end of the spectrum. I have very little in the way of emotions but have uncontrollable emotional responses, even though I'm not feeling the appropriate emotion. It's weird, not ADHD though.

Kite626(714) Disputed
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If only you knew the true struggles of it... I have o.c.d as well that's much more controllable for me.

Jace(5222) Disputed
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It is incredibly unfortunate that this condition has been so over-diagnosed because that has caused people to consider it as invalid far more frequently and with greater conviction than I think they otherwise would. I think the tendency to dismiss ADHD also stems from a general attitude towards mental illness not including psychosis, which is that it should be something people just get over. In reality it is not something one just gets over or controls, as there are scientifically established variations in brain chemistry and/or structure for ADHD and other mental health conditions.

That said, you have a very valid point about the terrible tendency to over-medicate. Medications are never the full solution, and rarely do they actually need to even be a part of the solution at all (and certainly not over the long term). I too say this as someone with mental health issues.

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Its so fucking annoying. So many people at my school say that they have adhd and add but they fucking dont. I swear to god, and its all white kids too, no black people or mexicans or asians have these disorders. Only white boys, and they dont even have it, thier parents just dont know how to control them, so they make them take meds to shut them the fuck up.

Kite626(714) Disputed
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I'm black, puerto rican, and white, and i have it.. ethnicity has nothing to do with it. Have you ever thought about the statistical fact of mexican's and black's to be in more poverty than whites. Meaning whites are the only ones willing enough to spend money on their children who need help. But that is annoying i do agree there the school i go to never have i made a big deal about having adhd and haven't demanded special attention. In my opinion i view my disorder as an advantage with flaws.

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Every person has ADHD, or ADD, whatever they call it now adays.

I mean, every single person has a particular "disorder" pertaining to ADHD in that it's obvious when you're younger, especially younger, to have a attention deficit disorder; that's what humans do!

And so, as the older you get, it becomes....what? ADHD I do not believe exists in the way the doctors make it out to be, I say it exists in everyone and some have it worse than others, however to continue to feed people with the "pills", is ridiculous. Yet another scam from the Pharmaceutical Industry.

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Everyone has some sort of emotional, behavioural disorder to some degree for most it's not noticeable for some it can come to control their lives. I always double check I have turned out lights, turned off aplliances and have even come home after leaving the house even though I was positive everything was off so i'm sure I could easily slip down that road.

People are too quick to stick labels on things and prescribe Meds these days as they think it's a quick fix, it's not and there are normally other underlying reasons for behaviour and mental problems, if they are not fixed first the meds will just cover them up which doesn't help the patient.

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As if there are people with no "disorders" who could answer. I think what we call ADHD is a defensive response to a broader serious disorder in the social environment. People labeled ADHD have trouble being interested in what they are told they ought to be interested in, or focusing on what they are expected to focus on, for as long as they are told they should focus on it. According to my observations, people pay attention JUST FINE to what they find interesting. Our social indoctrination systems do not pay enough regard (attention deficit) to the fact that effective learning in most cases depends on the learner studying what they are interested in, as opposed to being exposed to programming, ie being subjected to the indoctrination programs we refer to as education. Society's attention deficit disorder is that we are too focused on what we want to teach, and not enough on what we are trying to learn. We don't pay enough attention to helping children follow their innate curiosity, because we are hyperactive with our efforts to mold them. When they resist that (which is a healthy response) it's labeled a disorder.