Tragically the victims of psychiatry will probably never have a chance of beating the odds and making it anyplace much in life, aside from ghettos, street corners, and filthy institutions. Yet, the CCHR has long pointed out that psychiatry is a fraudulent discipline which makes this realization even more reprehensible. The CCHR has again and again pointed out correctly that in spite of what the American Psychiatric Association says, "unlike medical disease, there are no scientific tests to verify the medical existence of any psychiatric disorder. Psychiatry has failed to prove even one mental disorder is due to a faulty or “chemically imbalanced” brain." Tara Haelle reported for Pediatric News on June 27, 2013, Racial, ethnic disparities found in diagnosis of children with ADHD.

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A new study has shown that children are being diagnosed and treated for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder at disproportionate rates which are based on their race or ethnicity. In this study it was found hispanic children were about half as likely as white children to have received a diagnosis of ADHD by junior high, and African American children were about two-thirds less likely than white children to have received this diagnosis by junior high. Furthermore, white children labeled with ADHD were about two to three times more likely to be taking medication for their supposed disorder than children of all other racial/ethnic backgrounds. Beginning in kindergarten and continuing through eighth grade, such racial/ethnic disparities in ADHD diagnosis and medication use were identified.

Dr. Morgan and his research colleagues have suggested that clinicians might be "disproportionately responsive to white parents who are more likely to solicit ADHD diagnosis and treatment for their children." Although psychiatrists generally support the premise that more information about ADHD would even out the diagnoses, what these facts actually support is the assumption that psychiatry is a fraudulent discipline wherein damaging diagnoses are made based on subjective reasons which often have nothing at all to do with any actual illnesses.

As the CCHR has highlighted, there are no actual biological markers for any of the myriad of diagnoses of the psychiatrists, which are therefore all based on subjective assumptions. It is likely the same problem in racial, ethnic disparities exists with other catastrophic labels of the psychiatrists, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, due to the in vogue trend of wealthy white families choosing such labels when there are routine problems in daily living with their kids, and the unethical and greedy psychiatrists play up to this chic answer to everyday problems of living.

And so hispanics and blacks should beware, as more and more people in these ethnic groups move into upper middle class and extremely wealthy settings in America, their kids could be confronted with the same trendy and deadly problem, unless action is taken to
educate more and more people about the facts behind the psychiatric labels with efforts to
sensitize more people as to the terrible tragedy to follow each time another child or adult is
hit with these faulty labels.

Actually I have been to so many classes on ADHD because my
son has it. He is the poster child for it, I actually took
him off his medicine and he actually felt like he was going
crazy. I DO believe in medicating children esp when they
are younger and can not sit still.
My son is now 18 and we have actually stopped all medication
for ADHD but his brain is non-stop. My son still has to take
medication to calm him down to sleep or his brain would never
allow him to stop.
I know a lot of people believe in thinking, oh control his
sugar count and that will help. WRONG...we actually eat healthy
and have nothing in my house with sugar. I actually had a
disease when I was preg and it said that my kids would end up
with ADHD. My brother did a study on it, he is a psychologist,
and it said that 90% of the time people with this has ADHD
children. I had one with ADHD and one with ADD.

What disease during pregnancy leads to adhd in 90% of the occurances?

for me, its a chicken or egg field

is the 'illness' causing the behavior or does the behavior fuel the 'illness'


my elders said,, nothing that happens to poor folks is anything but their 'culture' , but when the rich folks is doing it,, someone will label it as an 'illness',,,

Psychiatry has come along way from the days of locking up people for common illnesses such as epilepsy and schizophrenia.
Some disorders like bi-polar can be hereditary and treated with lithium to stabilize the brains chemical balance.

ADHD, however is more of a guessing game for Psychiatrists, because I believe it is not a genetic, nor a psychiatric problem.

I think it's a toxic syndrome.

I believe the steady increase of ADHA cases is directly linked to children's diet.
Specifically, the lack of real sugar in their diet.

The human body has a natural craving for the nutrients our body needs. When young children don't get the minerals they need in their diet, you will see them eating dirt or paint chips, a condition called "pica"(the reason lead in paint was banned).
Over the last 20 years the American people have been sold on this idea that natural sugar was some how unhealthy(thanks to big corporations like Monsanto)and everything children eat from their cereals to soft drinks are all artificially sweetened with dangerous chemicals that "trick" the body into thinking it's getting sugar.
Aspartame alone is responsible for over 75 percent of the adverse reactions to food additives reported to the FDA.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/11/06/aspartame-most-dangerous-substance-added-to-food.aspx

I can not prove my "theory" but I have studied nutrition for over 20 years and know the lack of proper nutrition can cause many conditions and diseases. Added to the lack of what your body needs, filling it with dangerous chemicals(artificial sweeteners) compound the problems.
JMO

Hyperemesis gravidarum

I like that Rosenhan experiment done with pseudo patients in 1972 in order to determine the validity of psychiatric diagnosis, conducted by psychologist David Rosenhan and published by the journal Science under the title "On being sane in insane places". Someone should repeat the thing.

I myself and one of my children are ADHD and now struggle due to labeling and breaking patient privacy rights, preschool officials requesting me all documents with all completed exams one by one either it is neurological exam; EEG, psychiatrist exam or just anything...like they know to read them.

I`ve been lucky to be a child in times when no one made fuss about it. Basically we gone for help, as how we are is accompanied with changed life circumstances hence things gone for worse but instead of help we got identified and labeled. In reality i never saw problem with how i am, just felt like being different wired, so now i am in deep wonder what for is necessary to classify us.

According to DSM bible everyone is mentally ill.

Agreeing with the fact that food can improve "condition" but to be a major source of it no, but then it is my modest personal opinion based on experience. Food must be rich in proteins, minerals and vitamins. Hungry ADHD is tough to manage.

Sugar...i tried with dextrose instead of classic sugar and it is quite a different story.

I somehow agree it is genetic heritage. But most of all i agree it is witch hunt and that those new kids are result of evolution "hunter theory" and it is pity for such superpowers to be shuttered.