For decades, ADHD has been a money-spinning psychiatric label that resulted in children and adolescents taking mind-altering stimulant drugs in school. More recent media articles have been pushing the adult diagnosis of the label.
While many believe in it, ADHD is an example of how the psychiatric industry has redefined, rebranded and marketed normal behaviour as a mental illness. Being somewhat disorganised, procrastinating and being impulsive are not symptoms of a mental illness. They are symptoms of being normal.
It is a remarkable marketing exercise that has drawn people into believing they have something wrong with their brains. The pseudoscience can be blinding unless one actually looks at the information which psychiatrists are using in an effort to edit out humanity.
Carelessness and lack of attention to detail, poor organisational skills, inability to focus, forgetfulness, or being impatient are some of the supposed behavioural characteristics listed for the condition in adults. Behaviour however is not a mental illness. These are regular, normal issues that people face in life, but psychiatrists are attempting to edit them out.
To add insult to injury, psychiatrists and pharmaceutical companies promote expensive drugs that chemically subdue the individual rather than addressing the real life issues that affect a person’s everyday performance. The worldwide psychiatric propaganda has become accepted and ADHD has become the modern-day equivalent of the Emperor’s New Clothes.
In his 1932 novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicted a controlled civilisation, using the “technique of suggestion, through infant conditioning and, later, with the aid of drugs.” The psychiatric suggestions, the conditioning to accept the pseudoscientific theories, and the mind-altering drugs are in place. The Brave New World it would seem has arrived.
At the end of the day, it’s important to recognise the ADHD charade as a commercial enterprise generating profits for drug companies while chemically subduing those labelled with the fraudulent diagnosis. It’s psychobabble, it’s dishonest, and it’s junk science.
Further reading: Psychostimulants: the facts about the effects
Further Reading: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder – ADHD
