sorry that was the dumest post ever.
Look up Hypochondria.
This shit happends all the time including with medical students.
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thanks 
your posts said that you have never encountered the very subject youāre talking about and then you went on to lump in depression with ADD. which was then masterfully seconded by a āmaybe theyāre hypochondriacās commentā. did i miss something :dunno:
Pot should be legal.
Or, anything harder than pot should be illegal.
Can you imagine the tax revenue?
As for the argument that of three kids, the one who was treated for ADD was the most successful? Iām sure if I ate Adderall and Ritalin every day, even though I donāt have ADD/ADHD, I would get a hell of a lot more done.
Imagine if Van Gogh had been on psychiatric medication. Or Thomas Edison.
You have to wonder if altering the chemistry of the brain also silences the muse of original thought and inspiration.
imagine if daumer, manson, bundy, the zodiac killer had been on meds. itās a stupid argument that leads to circular arguments. :blah: is all iām hearing, first meds and science are the real dealā¦ :blah: now ppl just need to focus :blah: :blah: is all iām hearing. no points, no facts, no substance just archie bunker bullshit from ppl who donāt know what theyāre talking about.
well i did specifically ask the medical backround of a patient that has adhd or the like.
what is specifically diagnosed that is the issueā¦ or are they just lumping it as āchemical imbalanceāā¦ which, in itself, is bullshitā¦ i can drink a bunch of green tea and get a chemical imbalanceā¦
i donāt know what to tell you. my aunt and uncle are both shrinks and my grandmother is a nurse in a psychiatric hospital and theyāre āarchie bunkerā types too.
look up all the cases of kids on xanax/prozac/etcā¦ committing violent crimes.
so would you be comfortable with the entire world being on medication that inhibited anger and violent behaviour? iād rather have the occasional serial killer than to have us all doped up.
no donāt get me wrong, i used to be hardcore rightwingā¦ fuck i interned for santorum on capital hill in DC. i was(AM) a help yourself person. if you had a hard time than get āharderā and fix it yourselfā¦ i still feel that way about jobs, and security and most other stuff. but i saw the results, i sounded like an ass supporting that way of thinking and i wonāt do it anymore. itās chemical sometimes and thatās just the way it is.
if you are a good parent, and youāve busted your ass, and your kid is still hyper as fuck than try the meds. they work, iāve seen it, and iāve seen what happens when they get no help. they become smart (focused) or they become the kids that watch anime at 3am. iād rather have a smart kid on meds than a dumbass who āat leastā isnāt on crazy pills.
edit: look up all the ones that got better, i bet they make the violent crimes less than 1% of all diagnosed.
nice blanket generalization there. i was just fighting fire with fire.
what does that have to do with anything? Iām lefter than Lenin. Santorumās a crazy douche (and a good friend of my step-momās, which makes political conversation at her house loads of fun). I donāt think itās a political thing at all. Even Scientologists are against mood-altering prescriptions.
it shows that i am a product of the mindset that iām against. and scientologist is a synonym for dumbass
the bottom line of this thread is that a shitload of people who have absolutely no knowledge of ADD, or of anyone that HAS ADD, are interjecting their completly ignorant opinion and then trying to argue it as if its a fact. There is NO DOUBT in my mind that my girlfriend needs to be on medication for her ADD. Its making her life miserable. She has been fighting me tooth and nail about getting on meds though because she is afraid it will fuck up her personality. Ive seen her reduced to tears multiple times because she cant concentrate on things. This in turn makes her extremely nervous and is leading to social anxiety disorder. For someone that has no knowledge of this to tell me that its all in her head/sheās not trying hard enough/she is weak for needing to take a medication takes some balls.
I took ritalin when it was first introduced and it was horrible then. Medication to treat it has gotten so much better. Since apparently the public perception is that its a made up disorder because iām lazy or some bs like that then maybe someone can explain why I have the attention span of a 2 yr old and why do I get spurts of hyperactivity out of nowhere? Also I havenāt been on medication because iām stubborn as hell. If its just another reason to mask laziness then somethings severely wrong. I can hold a steady job and have done so for years and my work ethic has always been strong so somethings obviously not right. I wonder how many people who think that add/adhd is just another excuse were the same kids who used to offer me money so they could misuse the ritalin I used to take. My dad doesnāt have it and when he tried ritalin once it was like dealing with a crackhead for the day. When I was on the dose prescribed for me I could actually concentrate on shit I normally wouldāve been daydreaming during and my focus on everything in general was just like anyone who doesnāt have this chemical imbalance.
stop whining. Its all in your head.
yeah because thats what the medication is doing, stopping the reactions period. It doesn;t know the difference between good reactions and bad reaction it just shuts the whole thing down.
Sure it is. Just like depression.
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you have no idea what you are talking about, do you? ADD is treated with amphetamines. Its a stimulant. Its not really that āmind alteringā of a substance. It doesnt mess with your brain chemistry in the same way an anti-depressant does. My girlfriend has drank 3 redbulls a day every time sheās at work for years. Even if sheās not tired. She has always said that it just makes her concentrate better. Redbull = caffeine = stimulant. So years before I was suspicious of her having ADD, sheās been unwittingly self-treating her ADD. I dont think all that coffee and redbull has really altered her personality.
Caffeine doesnāt alter someoneās personality with add. In most cases it has a greater effect on someone with add than someone who doesnāt have that chemical imbalance. 