INVENTOR OF ADHDS DEATHBED CONFESSION: "ADHD IS A FICTITIOUS DISEASE"

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INVENTOR OF ADHD'S DEATHBED CONFESSION: "ADHD IS A FICTITIOUS DISEASE"

INVENTOR OF ADHD'S DEATHBED CONFESSION: "ADHD IS A FICTITIOUS DISEASE"

Wednesday, March 27th 2013
By Moritz Nestor, Current Concerns

Inventor of ADHD: “ADHD is a fictitious disease”

Fortunately, the Swiss National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics (NEK, President: Otfried Höffe) critically commented on the use of the ADHD drug Ritalin in its opinion of 22 November 2011 titled Human enhancement by means of pharmacological agents: The consumption of pharmacological agents altered the child’s behavior without any contribution on his or her part.

That amounted to interference in the child’s freedom and personal rights, because pharmacological agents induced behavioral changes but failed to educate the child on how to achieve these behavioral changes independently. The child was thus deprived of an essential learning experience to act autonomously and emphatically which “considerably curtails children’s freedom and impairs their personality development”, the NEK criticized.

The alarmed critics of the Ritalin disaster are now getting support from an entirely different side. The German weekly Der Spiegel quoted in its cover story on 2 February 2012 the US American psychiatrist Leon Eisenberg, born in 1922 as the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, who was the “scientific father of ADHD” and who said at the age of 87, seven months before his death in his last interview: “ADHD is a prime example of a fictitious disease”

Since 1968, however, some 40 years, Leon Eisenberg’s “disease” haunted the diagnostic and statistical manuals, first as “hyperkinetic reaction of childhood”, now called “ADHD”. The use of ADHD medications in Germany rose in only eighteen years from 34 kg (in 1993) to a record of no less than 1760 kg (in 2011) – which is a 51-fold increase in sales! In the United States every tenth boy among ten year-olds already swallows an ADHD medication on a daily basis. With an increasing tendency.

When it comes to the proven repertoire of Edward Bernays, the father of propaganda, to sell the First World War to his people with the help of his uncle’s psychoanalysis and to distort science and the faith in science to increase profits of the industry – what about investigating on whose behalf the “scientific father of ADHD” conducted science? His career was remarkably steep, and his “fictitious disease” led to the best sales increases. And after all, he served in the “Committee for DSM V and ICD XII, American Psychiatric Association” from 2006 to 2009. After all, Leon Eisenberg received “the Ruane Prize for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Research. He has been a leader in child psychiatry for more than 40 years through his work in pharmacological trials, research, teaching, and social policy and for his theories of autism and social medicine”.

ADHD HoaxAnd after all, Eisenberg was a member of the “Organizing Committee for Women and Medicine Conference, Bahamas, November 29 – December 3, 2006, Josiah Macy Foundation (2006)”. The Josiah Macy Foundation organized conferences with intelligence agents of the OSS, later CIA, such as Gregory Bateson and Heinz von Foerster during and long after World War II. Have such groups marketed the diagnosis of ADHD in the service of the pharmaceutical market and tailor-made for him with a lot of propaganda and public relations? It is this issue that the American psychologist Lisa Cosgrove and others investigated in their study Financial Ties between DSM-IV Panel Members and the Pharmaceutical Industry7. They found that “Of the 170 DSM panel members 95 (56%) had one or more financial associations with companies in the pharmaceutical industry. One hundred percent of the members of the panels on ‘Mood Disorders’ and ‘Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders’ had financial ties to drug companies. The connections are especially strong in those diagnostic areas where drugs are the first line of treatment for mental disorders.” In the next edition of the manual, the situation is unchanged. “Of the 137 DSM-V panel members who have posted disclosure statements, 56% have reported industry ties – no improvement over the percent of DSM-IV members.” “The very vocabulary of psychiatry is now defined at all levels by the pharmaceutical industry,” said Dr Irwin Savodnik, an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California at Los Angeles.

ADHD HoaxThis is well paid. Just one example: The Assistant Director of the Pediatric Psychopharmacology Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School received “$1 million in earnings from drug companies between 2000 and 2007”. In any case, no one can easily get around the testimony of the father of ADHD: “ADHD is a prime example of a fictitious disease.”

The task of psychologists, educators and doctors is not to put children on the “chemical lead” because the entire society cannot handle the products of its misguided theories of man and raising children, and instead hands over our children to the free pharmaceutical market. Let us return to the basic matter of personal psychology and education: The child is to acquire personal responsibility and emphatic behavior under expert guidance – and that takes the family and the school: In these fields, the child should be able to lead off mentally. This constitutes the core of the human person.
 

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I think children today are over medicated on ritalin. It seems it is the "go to drug of choice" when the child is out of control. In my opinion, there is a lack of parental guidance & household rules. This being said, there are times when meds are appropriate if the child is harmful to himself, family or community. In this instance, the medication would allow the child to learn social skills etc. & counseling for the entire family unite. Turn around time would be a year & a half to 2 years depending on the severity of the behavior. My child did have ADHD & suffered needlessly, because the so called specialists said there was nothing amiss. It took a normal Dr. to recongize the problem. I am happy to report that my child is an asset to the communtiy & I am so proud of him.
 

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I think children today are over medicated on ritalin. It seems it is the "go to drug of choice" when the child is out of control. In my opinion, there is a lack of parental guidance & household rules. This being said, there are times when meds are appropriate if the child is harmful to himself, family or community. In this instance, the medication would allow the child to learn social skills etc. & counseling for the entire family unite. Turn around time would be a year & a half to 2 years depending on the severity of the behavior. My child did have ADHD & suffered needlessly, because the so called specialists said there was nothing amiss. It took a normal Dr. to recongize the problem. I am happy to report that my child is an asset to the communtiy & I am so proud of him.

Katdancing,

Don't worry about RJC's post. The day we start taking medical advice from RJC and his sources is the day the earth ends. I'm happy to hear your child got the help he needed. And you are right... parental guidance is also an extremelly important part of treatment.

Crispin
 

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RJC back off.... I know Crispin personally, he is not a fake.....

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All I have to add is that several years ago my ex's son was diagnosed with ADHD and put on Ritalin. When he came to live with us he was a zombie. The drugs made him lazy and not wanting to do much of anything. Call me old school but I feel that drugging kids is a copout so parents don't have to do their job and can ignore the problem. I'm not much for drugging kids to fix a problem so we decided to see what happened if we took him off it. As can be expected he began acting out. The school called and told us that unless we put him back on it we might have to look for a different school. I told them if they pursued that we would see them in court. We took a hard look at his diet and his habits and cut him almost entirely off anything that had sugar in it. Especially soda, sweetened Kool Aid, stuff like that. It took time and patience but he became a different kid. Without drugs. Your mileage may vary.
 

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katdancing:

Great post! Glad your child came through it.

The opinion(s) of people who haven't lived through it are worthless. Often they amount to "If you just smacked your kid a few more times, everything would be fine." Nonsense.

Outside views of other peoples' children generally have the same value as outside opinions about other peoples' relationships.

Good luck to all,

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Bowhunters Hall of Fame IshiBoo hiss.
International ADHD facts.From an advisory commission. Not like they are looking to award a Nobel prize.
Ranks up there with gender neutrality programs I don,t care to worry about in another country.
We have domestic council for such , instead of seeking its knowledge as it is local we get served something else and upset a forum member as usual, fun isn,t it? Belling the cat takes more than a plan when people think they have answers to mental health issues.There are things a professional doing to you or your property that goes alot better when education is localized, not isolated but acclimated.
Scab picking party ain,t gonna help nothing either.
Some days here at T-Net I feel like old Ishi and his final words.
 

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Well, my mom could cure all them childhood dis-eases! LOL!
She would remind me (in church, at an appointment, anywhere.....) that if I didn't get a "grip on" myself, she could take me out back, and had something that would "help me", get a grip on!
Ya figure it out pretty quick! LOL!

I also had a lot of "guidance" from older folks. Everyone in my family was older, and had time, patience, and a lot of love, in which they instilled, along with proper guidelines of right and wrong.
When a child sees and lives the fact, that you have no time to interact, direct, and care for them...... well, imho, it can leave them in not thinking very good things about themselves, especially if the ones that "suppose" to love them, doesn't take time for and with them.

Be good to your children, they'll choose your nursing home! :laughing7:
 

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katdancing:

Great post! Glad your child came through it.

The opinion(s) of people who haven't lived through it are worthless. Often they amount to "If you just smacked your kid a few more times, everything would be fine." Nonsense.

Outside views of other peoples' children generally have the same value as outside opinions about other peoples' relationships.

Good luck to all,

~ The Old Bookaroo
So as usual you have nothing usefull to add to this thread. Just throwing your "opinion" of others out there to show your disdain for all those "regular" folks who are below you... Curious if insulting EVERYONE on the site is also against the rules or if it only applies when you insult an individual..
 

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Old Bookaroo

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Tools are tools. When you have the right tool they work great. If you need a screwdriver and all you have is a hammer - not so much.

Tools can be used correctly and misused.

To blame parents for not trying or not caring or not whatever - probably not. Almost every parent does the best she or he can. Great parents have kids who turn out poorly. Sometimes clueless parents have great kids.

The nonsense about blaming doctors and other professionals - including teachers - doesn't accomplish anything.

Good luck to all,

~ The Old Bookaroo
 

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Tools are tools. When you have the right tool they work great. If you need a screwdriver and all you have is a hammer - not so much.

Guess you never thought that with the hammer you can make a screw driver,Adapt and overcome.
 

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Red James cash:

Are you offering advice based on personal experience as a parent?

Good luck to all,

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Its called common sense.People by habit,do the easiest thing there is to do,up to and including shoving pills down peoples throats.Dont look for the real problem,oh no thats too hard.Lets just camouflage the problem,thats the easiest way to make problems disappear isnt it.Its not there if you cant see it.Stupidity at its finest.
 

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