ADHD

Attention deficient/ hyperactivity disorder, or shortly known ad ADHD, is a mental disorder in which one cannot focus. The problem with this disorder is that people, mainly children have been misdiagnosed over the past few years. The danger doesn’t come from the misdiagnosis but the treatment for the disorder is very harmful. The number one drug was/is aderral. Aderral tends to have very risky side effects and on a child it is more likely to have a drastic affect.

The mis diagnosis always happens at the young age. Parents have always heard the symptoms of ADHD “have a hard time paying attention, daydream a lot, not seem to listen, be easily distracted from schoolwork or play, be in constant motion or unable to stay seated, squirm or fidget…” (http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/facts.html). They put such symptoms upon a child that is in the prime years, such as 4-7. Of course children at that stage will squirm a lot not listen and such. So, quickly to relieve themselves from the stress of dealing with their children, parents quickly as for a diagnosis of ADHD and the drug. What they do not realize is the long-term affect the drug will have on their child.

It is very sad to see that parents would be so willing to give their children such a drug to just relieve themselves from the trouble of dealing with their own offspring’s childhood years.