So are we talking about women's issues. The usual Illuminati (S & B) nonsense with no understanding? Or Big Pharma and the reasons why the whole educational and medical model is corrupt and turns out people who cannot think and do not really want to understand - which has been a goal of those who manage society since long before the Family Compact in Canada (with a plaque at Front and Jarvis proclaiming it.) or Goebbels and Stalin who said "Why educate people it makes them harder to manage."
Burnt makes a decent suggestion about Yoga and Meditation. Sad to say they actually have yoga beta feedback equipment (My niece is a Dean at Branscombe College) and yet no understanding of Yoga other than physical flexibility and minor stress relief. If you read what I put here (again) you will see there is no such thing as ADHD other than for a very few severe cases. It is nutrition and curriculum which the French have proven.
Eat Your Ritalin, Don't ask questions
HMMM. Which is it? Go to school to get brainwashed enough to want to become a prostitute to get a degree? Or try to learn how to think and question authority - which will lead to you having to take Ritalin? When Shrub was president he advocated that every American get tested for mental issues so they could all get therapy such as the drugs his father's Eli Lilly Corp directorship produced. But they lied about testing those drugs like Prozac when called before regulators in the senate. No person should ever graduate high school if they have not read Stopping Valium. It shows how doctors are motivated and bought off as well as being ignorant just like the start of this video portrays.
Walter Cronkite is a rare breed and we saw him depart our TV screen far too early in my opinion. Here is part of his observation about the Bush regime of unilateral domination and disregard for international accords. "The unilateralism has been a virtual addiction - a truculent constant in a presidency otherwise marked by inconstancy."
Patch Adams offered his free services to test Shrub when he said he wanted every American to be tested.
See Patch in person here.
Threats by helpful schools who do not disclose the extra money they receive for every student on ADHD meds is worse than torture - it can be murder. And the amount received by school boards varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction but almost always it pays for psychologists to do what they are told to do - get more kids on Ritalin.
"Our fourteen year old son Matthew suddenly died on March 21, 2000. The cause of death was determined to be from the long-term (age 7-14) use of Methylphenidate, a drug commonly known as Ritalin.
According to Dr. Ljuba Dragovic, the Chief Pathologist of Oakland County, Michigan, upon autopsy, Matthew's heart showed clear signs of small vessel damage caused from the use of Methylphenidate (Ritalin).
*The certificate of death reads: "Death caused from Long Term Use of Methylphenidate, Ritalin."
I was told by one of the medical examiners that a full-grown man's heart weighs about 350 grams and that Matthew's heart's weight was about 402 grams. Dr. Dragovic said this type of heart damage is smoldering and not easily detected with the standard test done for prescription refills. The standard test usually consists of blood work, listening to the heart, and questions about school behaviors, sleeping and eating habits.
*What is important to note here is that Matthew did not have any pre-existing heart condition or defect.
Matthew's story started in a small town within Berkley, Michigan. While in first grade Matthew was evaluated by the school, who believed he had ADHD. The school social worker kept calling us in for meetings. One morning at one of these meetings while waiting for the others to arrive, Monica told us that if we refused to take Matthew to the doctor and get him on Ritalin, child protective services could charge us for neglecting his educational and emotional needs. My wife and I were intimidated and scared. We believed that there was a very real possibility of losing our children if we did not comply with the schools threats.
Monica further explained ADHD to us, stating that it was a real brain disorder. She also went on to tell us that the Methylphenidate (Ritalin) was a very mild medication and would stimulate the brain stem and help Matthew focus."
Death from Ritalin the Truth Behind ADHD
If you are a school that is failing to get good test scores and you are under pressure as it's administration or parents - what would you do? Your choices are:
1. Learn how to do your job - teach interesting subjects to interested students, and engage the community to help.
2. Hire teachers who have been taught how to teach - but they are not available and no schooling system in America teaches how to teach - they teach testing. See Kuiper's Social Science Encyclopedia.
3. Teach teachers to teach and get parents involved in remedial education classes so they can volunteer and help.
4. Blame ADHD and the parents or others.
The number of boys being diagnosed is far larger than the number of girls - why? Because boys are more likely to challenge teachers or act in a manner thought to be inattentive. Or could it be they are bored with taking classes that don't interest them while girls are socially more engaged in other things at school? In my case teachers would ask me questions as I appeared to sleep due to boredom. I would then answer the question and question the method and manner that the question was formulated. Usually I had read the whole year's texts before each year began (Brothers who took the classes in front of me.) and some additional materials if I found it interesting. The kids who did not have their homework done would ask me to talk about the subject with the teacher so they would not get questioned.
When I went to school teachers did not have the ADD or ADHD stick to threaten me with. Schools also get paid based on attendance and I hear this is even more true today. I missed every third day of school - knowing the teachers always repeated themselves in the spiral of education methodology. When my father was brought in to address what the administration did not like about my frequent absence and lesser marks than I might have gotten - he told them he trusted I had better things to do, was getting good grades despite poor teaching methods and never to bother him again unless they wanted legal action.
"Why French Kids Don't Have ADHD
French children don't need medications to control their behavior.
Post published by Marilyn Wedge Ph.D. on Mar 08, 2012 in Suffer the Children
In the United States, at least 9 percent of school-aged children have been diagnosed with ADHD, and are taking pharmaceutical medications. In France, the percentage of kids diagnosed and medicated for ADHD is less than .5 percent. How has the epidemic of ADHD—firmly established in the U.S.—almost completely passed over children in France?
Is ADHD a biological-neurological disorder? Surprisingly, the answer to this question depends on whether you live in France or in the U.S. In the United States, child psychiatrists consider ADHD to be a biological disorder with biological causes. The preferred treatment is also biological—psycho stimulant medications such as Ritalin and Adderall.
French child psychiatrists, on the other hand, view ADHD as a medical condition that has psycho-social and situational causes. Instead of treating children's focusing and behavioral problems with drugs, French doctors prefer to look for the underlying issue that is causing the child distress—not in the child's brain but in the child's social context. They then choose to treat the underlying social context problem with psychotherapy or family counseling. This is a very different way of seeing things from the American tendency to attribute all symptoms to a biological dysfunction such as a chemical imbalance in the child's brain.
French child psychiatrists don't use the same system of classification of childhood emotional problems as American psychiatrists. They do not use the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or DSM. According to Sociologist Manuel Vallee, the French Federation of Psychiatry developed an alternative classification system as a resistance to the influence of the DSM-3. This alternative was the CFTMEA (Classification Française des Troubles Mentaux de L'Enfant et de L'Adolescent), first released in 1983, and updated in 1988 and 2000. The focus of CFTMEA is on identifying and addressing the underlying psychosocial causes of children's symptoms, not on finding the best pharmacological bandaids with which to mask symptoms.
To the extent that French clinicians are successful at finding and repairing what has gone awry in the child's social context, fewer children qualify for the ADHD diagnosis. Moreover, the definition of ADHD is not as broad as in the American system, which, in my view, tends to "pathologize" much of what is normal childhood behavior. The DSM specifically does not consider underlying causes. It thus leads clinicians to give the ADHD diagnosis to a much larger number of symptomatic children, while also encouraging them to treat those children with pharmaceuticals.
The French holistic, psychosocial approach also allows for considering nutritional causes for ADHD-type symptoms—specifically the fact that the behavior of some children is worsened after eating foods with artificial colors, certain preservatives, and/or allergens. Clinicians who work with troubled children in this country—not to mention parents of many ADHD kids—are well aware that dietary interventions can sometimes help a child's problem. In the U.S., the strict focus on pharmaceutical treatment of ADHD, however, encourages clinicians to ignore the influence of dietary factors on children's behavior.
And then, of course, there are the vastly different philosophies of child-rearing in the U.S. and France. These divergent philosophies could account for why French children are generally better-behaved than their American counterparts. Pamela Druckerman highlights the divergent parenting styles in her recent book, Bringing up Bébé. I believe her insights are relevant to a discussion of why French children are not diagnosed with ADHD in anything like the numbers we are seeing in the U.S."
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog...dont-have-adhd
