adhd

Jun

2024

Are Schools Pushing Drugs?

For many years it has somehow become a right of Schools to push drugs for ADHD and the like or insist children take drugs.
In my words they, “push” drugs on children. In North America anyway.

I’ve heard this story for years from others: Recently, a niece of ours felt she had to put her son on some ADHD drug after being called to the school a number of times because her young son was disruptive in class.

A tiny bit of background. She feeds him Fruit Loops cereal for breakfast. I’ve asked a lot of children in the last few years, ages 10-16 or so, what they have for breakfast. A lot of boxed cereal, muffins or fast food. These foods are devastating.

What is in these foods that makes a need for schools to push drugs?

Fruit Loops: Additives:

Natural Flavours: When unspecified this is usually something like MSG which can be very damaging.

Red 40: synthetic food dye, very toxic and linked to hyperactivity in children. (Banned in several countries)

Blue 1: Synthetic food dye. Linked to allergies and hyperactivity

Yellow 6: Cancer and hyperactivity

BHT: (Butylated Hydroxytoluene) synthetic preservative linked to cancer and other health problems.

Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil: high in trans fats - linked to heart disease.

So, you feed your kid something that causes hyperactivity or ‘so called ADHD’. And then … you have to give him drugs to counter the chemicals in the food that make him hyperactive.

Children Should Be Active

Another part of the problem is that no young boy should be asked to sit still in a classroom for hours at a time. They should be moving most of the day as they have way to much energy to burn just naturally, without adding destructive chemicals into the mix. The girls as well. There are no end to studies showing this.

The link here talks about this in relation to homework (which should be outlawed) but the principle is the same: Parent Co.

Why schools so insistent on pushing drugs like ADHD?

All that said, though, why would a teacher or school faculty member have anything to say about administering drugs to a child in their care. But that has been going on for some time, I think.

The medical industry, which includes psychiatrists, is trained on the basis of ‘symptom - pill’, ‘symptom - pill’. What pill should be used for what symptom? This has long since filtered down into public schools in the USA and Canada. Health nurses in schools then even teachers are weighing in and judging whether a child should be on some anti anxiety or ADHD drug.

Our Addiction to Drugs

A close relative who is a doctor in a fairly upscale town, told me a story about an associate. This goes back about 20-25 years. This associate, a doctor, moved into the town. Set up practice. He was of a mind that he didn’t want to hand out drugs willy-nillly. A patient would come in with a cold. Doctor tells him or her that the cold will be gone in 10 days whether or not they are taking a drug for it. Patients didn’t want to hear this. “Just gimme the drug!”

Within a year this doctor packed up and left. The patients just wanted their pills. They would see the advertising on the Television and tell the doctor what they wanted.

It’s much worse now. So many people feel they are educated on the subject of symptoms and drugs from watching the pharmaceutical ads on TV.

All this makes good sense for Home Schooling Your Children

So, why would you send your kid to a bunch of drug pushers. (read: public schools)

Another major issue with putting your kid on an ADHD drugs or something similar is that once they reach adulthood there is a strong possibility that the are going to switch to some stronger or more damaging drug. Or even just keep doing drugs. This is a very real situation, particularly with Ritalin.

“It’s an important issue for parents whether the use of stimulant medications like Adderall to treat ADHD in children puts those children at risk for later substance abuse.”
Child Mind Institute

Do your own research. Don’t just listen to doctors or school staff. Ask questions.

Your child’s brain is developing until they are 25. Life is tough enough - why make it more difficult.

Benefits of Homeschooling

The beauty of home schooling is that your child can learn in a couple of hours a day, much more than he or she does sitting in a classroom for 6-8 hours. Absolutely no reason for an 8 year old boy to be tortured by forcing him to sit in that chair all day. There are dozens of homeschooling resources online and elsewhere. It has become much more ‘mainstream’ than it was 30-40 years ago.

The Classical Learner (https://classicallearner.com/) is a great one. There are many more though. The whole homeschooling thing has been growing like mad the last few years.

Children want to learn!

There are those wanting to make the education of their kids way too complicated. Kids want to learn. Biggest thing I found is to just put interesting stuff in front of them and stand back.

If you are nervous about the subject and want read a couple of books, I would suggest pretty much anything by John Taylor Gatto or John Holt. Gatto was a teacher in some of the rougher parts of New York City for 30 years. Got awards and everything.

If you got this far and have read this article, then you are at least curious about alternatives to public schooling. Please take a minute and look through some of my other articles so that you can educate yourself on the dangers of these types of drugs.

Conclusion

So, if you don't want your kids in Schools Pushing Drugs for ADHD and the like then figure out how to home school them. And for gosh sakes, get them away from Fruit Loops!

Jun

2023

ADHD and Marijuana Use

Recently on our travels across the country we found a good friend, an adult, recently prescribed ADHD medication. For various symptoms such as inability to concentrate, memory issues, etc. Thus, in his case ADHD and marijuana use are very closely connected.

Not the first time I’ve come across this phenomenon. Because the medical ‘profession’ and the pharmaceutical industry are, in this day and age, completely focused on symptoms. Rarely, anymore, does one find a doctor with the inclination or the time to look to find causes. Doctors will seldom look at marijuana use and ADHD and how they are connected

Easier, quicker and more financially rewarding to hand out drugs that hopefully, mask the symptoms than to learn enough about the patient to diagnose properly. That way one has a lifetime patient (read 'income').

ADHD and marijuana studies

A quick search will result in finding some common manifestations of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

- having a short attention span and being easily distracted

- making careless mistakes – for example, in schoolwork

- appearing forgetful or losing things

- being unable to stick to tasks that are tedious or time-consuming

- appearing to be unable to listen to or carry out instructions

- constantly changing activity or task

- having difficulty organizing tasks
- NHS UK https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-adhd/symptoms/

And some short and long term effects of marijuana use:

- affects judgement

- reduces reaction time

- sleepiness

- attention problems

- alters sense of time and place

- impaired body movement

- impaired memory

- impairs memory and thinking

- impairs learning functions

weakens the ability to learn
- - Marijuana Side Effects

Turns out the effects of marijauna and ADHD symptoms are much the same. The similarities are quite obvious. Any medical practitioner worth his or her salt should be able to see and know this if they bothered to look. That’s only part of the problem, though isn’t it as most doctors are so over educated that they can’t observe what is in front of them. If it’s not told to them in their books, it can’t be true.

Add to this problem are the side effects of Adderall and Ritalin, which are the most prescribed drugs for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder:

restlessness
difficulty falling asleep/interrupted sleep
paranoia
exacerbation of existing mental illnesses
nervousness
agitation
anxiety
psychosis

Is there a correlation between ADHD and marijuana use? Here is a video going into the relationship between marijuana and schizophrenia.

Solutions to ADHD and Marijuana Abuse

There are numerous solutions to ADHD that don’t involve drugs. Whether the so called disease, ADHD, is caused by marijuana or some other environmental toxin. Allergies? Mineral depletion?

If it's possible these side effects are caused by marijuana, partially or otherwise, then you should ask your doctor to or do your own research for ways to handle the cause. It’s not because your body is short on the 'vitamin' Ritalin. And the whole brain chemical imbalance thing has been debunked numerous times so, don’t go there.

There is a great book by Dr. Sydney Walker Jr.that debunks the whole idea of physical problems and proper diagnosis with relation to mental illness. In his book, A Dose of Sanity, Dr Sydney Walker gives an example of someone that been prescribed an anti-anxiety drug but when proper investigation and research was done, he found the cause to be a brain tumour. That takes a bit of time to discover but that's time that most doctors won’t take.

Chemical Imbalance: Truth or Lie

The Illogic of the Chemical Imbalance Theory

I have this friend at the gym, his name is Sonny(real name). I’d see him fairly regularly and we got to chatting a few times and somehow or other we got onto the topic of kids and ADHD and that sort of thing. He told me that when he was in Grade School he was diagnosed with ADHD. His grandfather found out about this and thought it was a ridiculous. He took Sonny and enrolled him in a martial arts class. This allowed Sonny, according to him to burn off the natural access energy that was driving him to fidget for those horrible six-seven hour days in school.

He told me that pretty much from that day on he had no problems and it was much easier to concentrate in class. Someone who adamantly believes in the theory of ‘Chemical Imbalance’ in the brain, might say that Sonny didn’t really have ADHD.

If that were the case, then the person who diagnosed him should be seriously reprimanded, fined and likely have their licence revoked.

From a website ScienceNordic.com:

‘“In Brazil the dominant approach is psychoanalytical and Brazilians tend to disregard biological mechanisms,” says Aase.
Until recently medication of ADHD has been held in disfavour because of the country’s history of military dictatorship and links between political oppression and medication of people with behavioural problems.’

Again, if ADHD was a biologically based ‘disease’ this would not be possible; you would not be able to treat a biological mechanism by using psychological means. Add to this that there are no real standard methods of diagnosis, which is continuously admitted throughout literature on the subject, and you have a real confusion as to causes and cures.
I’m sure some psychiatrist could ‘fake news’ his or her way through this to make it all seem confusing and invalid. In my research, I’ve seen ‘researchers’(I use that term very loosely), doctors and such, comment on the factualness of the biochemical nature of issues like ADHD and Depression. I have, in all of my research, and believe me I’ve done lots, found no factual studies that confirm any biochemical causes for the above so called ‘diseases’.

So many people are diagnosed with Depression and Clinical Depression. I see every year or two some article about some researcher is on the cusp of the discovery of exactly what chemical imbalance in the brain causes depression. Trying to give more credibility to the concept but at the same time admitting that there is no scientific evidence validating any kind of biochemical cause.

Again, there are so many people diagnosed with ‘depression’ that are able to overcome it without resorting to drugs. So, they are either misdiagnosed or it is NOT biochemical.

Where is the science?!

So far, I have not been able to locate any exact science on this. There are numerous psychiatrists that will back be up on this: Dr. Peter Breggin; Dr. Sydney Walker Jr; Dr. Thomas Szasz to name but a few. (I’m tempted to offer money to anyone that can find something definitive on this - I do feel quite safe that I would never have to give up a penny!)

I read a quote recently that pointed out that people that have more challenges in life are happier. My observation is that when people are doing something or producing something, they are always happier. And the person who is doing something and at the same time helping others is the happiest of all.

I’ve observed that those having the most difficulty with depression and such are constantly worried about things instead of getting on with it and actually challenging themselves in life. A slightly ‘dangerous’ environment keeps you awake and doesn’t give you time to worry about being depressed. I’m not saying you should put yourself in ‘bad’ situations but make a bigger game and start solving the problems of that game. Stop thinking so much. If you have time to sit around that think, then you, for sure are not going to be happy.

The thing that really gets me on this is that so many people have accepted the idea of things like depression and ADHD being physical diseases as FACT, when there is no proof at all. But I guess this is just more evidence of blindly accepting ‘fake news’ as is now done daily on social media. I guess if you say an untruth enough times it becomes true. Or at least believed to be.

Mar

2018

Who Decides?

Who Decides What Becomes a Mental Disease?

who decides at what point an active boy becomes ADHD?
who decides at what point a liking for neatness and order becomes OCD?
who decides when sadness becomes depression?
who decides when an ‘emotional roller coaster’ becomes Bipolar?
who decides when a cheeky kid is suffering from "oppositional defiance disorder"?

ADD or ADHD Or Just An Active Little Boy?

Before ‘ADHD’ we were just active boys. Likely too much sugar. Either way, if we were too rambunctious we would be send outside to play and burn off some extra energy. At school there was enough physical activity and breaks from academics to bleed off any extra energy. An acquaintance of mine, Sonny, at the gym, was diagnosed ADHD when 7 years old. The teachers wanted to put him on Ritalin. His grandfather stepped in and said no. Grandfather enrolled Sonny in a martial arts class. He says it helped him burn off energy and stay focused.

I can’t remember not being outside after school winter or summer. On weekends we would head to the farm and in winter we would head out into the woods for hours. Come back when time to leave stiff from the cold and wet from falling through the ice.

There are myriad solutions online for ADHD.
1. https://draxe.com/natural-remedies-adhd/
2. http://naturalsociety.com/3-powerful-natural-remedies-for-adhd/

Above are just a couple of sites. I don’t necessarily agree that there is anything wrong with a 8 or 10 year old boy that needs to be active. BUT if you do and want to ‘solve it’, then there are dozens of ways to help your child without drugs. Of course, I do understand if you need the quick fix of a drug to control and keep your child quiet. Your life is more important than your child’s. I’m not really apologetic about the sarcasm - people need to spend more time with their kids. Not just give them everything they want.

Some schools have taken away parts of education that are not academic. Big mistake.

OCD vs Neatness?

Is there a test, physical or otherwise for OCD? I don’t think so. Who makes the line in the sand? On this side you just like things orderly and clean. On the other side you have a mental problem because you like things orderly, neat and clean. Huh? The headshrinkers would have you believe that 1 in 4 or 5 are in need of psychiatric help. It is not that hard to convince someone they need some help but when that help comes in the form of a pill that is addictive and has side effects that include depression, suicide thoughts and death, well, let’s not terrify this person more than they already might be.

Oppositional Defiance Disorder(Or Just Cheeky)?

The ‘cheeky’ kid that gets into trouble because he disagrees with the teacher. He is not convinced and won’t take things at face value. He is light hearted about it and is seen as somewhat condescending when in reality he is way ahead of the curve but the teacher or parent finds this disrupting to the rest of the children largely because this ‘defiant’ child is just too smart. But because he doesn’t fit in or just believe all he is told, he gets a prescription to subdue him. There is no physical or mental test to determine at what point these kids need to be drugged. It’s all opinion. The psychiatrist listens to the parent or teacher and prescribes a drug. That simple. A caring person would have a conversation with the child, teacher and parents to see how to encourage and challenge the child. Drugs are ‘easier’.

I’m not sure that terrorist organizations should even bother terrorizing the West, particularly North America. Psychiatry with its
drugs are stripping away the life of upcoming generations and pretty much destroying any willingness to fight back. ISIS would be smart to just finance the field of psychiatry and the job of destroying America would be done for them.

Feb

2017