Author Topic: Inventor of ADHDS deathbed confession: "ADHD is a fictitious disease" (Read 3884 times)

Anthony Benedict · « **Reply #5 on:** December 09, 2013, 05:26:48 PM »

Soulguard, I want to be among the first to wish you very well, indeed. I am among those who, unknowingly, tried to correct some of your posts for what I perceived as a form of egocentrism in your theological opinions. I hope that when you read those remarks you could sense that I was also trying to cast them in the light of a grudging respect for your intelligence - which I see, given what you've just admitted here on this forum, is as considerable as I first sensed.

I agree strongly with your diagnosis of the hellish state of psychiatric praxis. I am remotely aware, these days, that it's only grown worse since my own efforts to help a friend who was caught up in it back in the 1980s, a victim of medical stupidity involving excessive steroid therapy in the treatment of an underlying auto-immunological disease. My search for someone to step in and halt the ongoing malpractice led me to speak with the late Dr. Thomas Szasz, a psychiatrist affiliated with the NY State Univ. system and famous critic of psychiatry as it was being "practiced" at that time.

You may wish to start your search for assistance by checking out what may contain some factual information about his work, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Szasz

Another possible source of some direction might be, believe it or not, one Dr. Ray Guarendi, a clinical psychologist in Ohio who has TV and radio programs on the EWTN network. I have heard him often enough (he can be VERY funny as well as insightful) to sense that he, too, would be sympathetic to your own comments and professionally equipped to offer you some practical guidance from a Catholic perspective (he's not a Trad, of course.) Nevertheless, his outlook is suspicious concerning the over-diagnosis phenomenon and I am quite sure he would be objective and empathetic in your case.

You can contact him on the web @ http://drray.com/ (use the "contact" button to write him.)

Those are two points of departure for you and I hope they help.

You do have friends here and I hope you will come to find that I intend to be one of them.

Most important, don't lose your sense of humor.

Frances · « **Reply #6 on:** December 09, 2013, 05:39:37 PM »

:dancing-banana:
In NYC, four and five year olds are sometimes in school for 13 hours. If they are dropped off at 6:30am for Before Care and picked up at 7:30pm when the After Care program ends, that's more than half the day. These children eat three meals at school and do their homework at school. All they do at home Mon.-Fri. is bathe and sleep. We teachers do our best, but we cannot replace a home life with parents and siblings. It's sad reality. Right now, a six year old girl who has been at school since 6:45 this morning is asleep on a gym mat. She has been running a fever since noon and won't get picked up for an hour. Her mother works in Connecticut and is raising two children alone. Her husband abandoned his family and returned to his native India. Mom is an only child whose parents are deceased. This is the world created by feminism. The children suffer, but know nothing else, therefore, don't know it is not normal. And we wonder why they're inattentive and unmotivated!!!!!ADHD??????

Cantarella · « **Reply #7 on:** December 09, 2013, 05:47:51 PM »

Quote from: Frances

This is the world created by feminism. The children suffer, but know nothing else, therefore, don't know it is not normal. And we wonder why they're inattentive and unmotivated!!!!!ADHD??????

Couldn't agree more.

I blame the evil of feminism for the moral oblivion we live in. As women go, so goes the family, so goes society, and thus civilization.

Frances · « **Reply #8 on:** December 09, 2013, 06:28:46 PM »

:ready-to-eat:
Must take a break to pack Maggie's dinner and school bag. Her Mom will be here in five minutes. If she eats at all tonight, it'll be in the car on the way home. Unless extremely unwell, she'll be back at school in about 11 hours. Yes, Maggie has trouble concentrating in class. I can't imagine why. Must be she has ADHD and needs to be on Ritalin.
(I'm being sarcastic.)