It’s the time of year when children might demonstrate behaviour characteristics that cause psychiatrists to reach for their prescription pads.
Some children might have difficulty sustaining attention in tasks or play activities; they might lose things necessary for tasks or activities, they might get easily distracted, have difficulty playing or engaging in leisure activities quietly, or talk excessively.
It sounds like normal childhood behaviour that goes hand-in-hand with the excitement, anticipation and activity of the festive season, but to a psychiatrist, its part of the list of diagnostic criteria used to label children with so-called ‘Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder’ (‘ADHD’).
Normal childhood behaviour has been redefined by psychiatrists to the point where dangerous psychiatric drugs are used to suppress such behaviour. The propaganda regarding childhood behaviour has been cleverly worded to sound convincing, and it’s being regularly accepted without inspection. Parents however are left in a difficult position with few options. Every loving parent will do whatever it takes to protect their children and to that degree, they believe what psychiatrists tell them.
The behaviour of some children can be testing, but it’s not representative of a mental illness. It’s a spectacular marketing coup that so many people have accepted ADHD. It’s unscientific and a figment of psychiatric imagination.
It’s also testimony to the worldwide psychiatric propaganda that ADHD drugs, which include drugs pharmacologically similar to cocaine, have become accepted as ‘treatment’ for an unscientific profit-driven label. In fact, ADHD is the modern-day equivalent of the Emperor’s New Clothes, and the psychiatrist is the tailor.
There is no doubt some children can be boisterous, argumentative, and even disruptive, but psychiatry’s fixation on labelling such difficulties as a mental illness or disorder is not only unscientific but medical fraud.
At this time of year, it’s customary to resolve to do things that make life better. Do your children a favour today, tomorrow, at Christmas and forever – love them, don’t drug them.
