Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnnyB
I think the whole ADD phenemenon is simply blown way way out of proportion. People talk about it as a disorder or even a disease (which is ridiculous). I think obsession with ADD (whatever ADD actually is as clinically measured) is largely a matter of obsessive diagnosis and prescription in order to deal with children whose personalities may not function as well within typical school and social environments.
If it must be medicated however, I'm not opposed to the use of medicinal marijuanna to do it. I just think that the majority of children on ritilin are the subject of a medical culture that is itself hyperactive when it comes to identifying 'medical problems' that are in need of prescription solutions.
|
It's not even a that it's really a 'medical' problem, it's a behavioural problem that doesn't fit into the tight confines allowed in our modern day prussian military academy. If you don't sit still and follow orders, you're a 'behavioural problem' and 'treated' until such time as you're either 'cured' (conformed) or simply weeded out through the various systems (expulsion, suspension, disenfranchisement with 'education', crippled self-worth leading to substance abuse etc etc).
There's no room in society for round pegs not to fit in square holes.
Imagine what would happen to our society if some of it's most imaginative minds were actually allowed to function for the better of us all? Disaster. We wouldn't have nearly as many faithful worker bees to resign themselves to saying, "that's life."
As long as attention 'problems' are treated as such, there won't be much in the way of progress. it's like treating addicts by locking them up.