How Many of These Ridiculous "Disorders" Do YOU Suffer From?

re: How Many of These Ridiculous "Disorders" Do YOU Suffer From?

Buckeye50 — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 05:09:55 GMT

I believe a lot of "disorders" fall under the umbrella of that old saying, "If you tell someone a lie long enough, often enough and emphatically enough....they eventually believe it." About 20 years ago they "diagnosed" our oldest son with ADHD. The doctor wanted to put him on Ritalin. I walked out of that doctor's office with my wife and son, and I said, "I'm NOT going to let some pill-pushing quack put our son on a suicide drug!" We started to make some changes in his diet, mainly eliminate as much sugar from his diet as possible. Shortly after that we moved back to NC. Our son continued to have some problems in school; not with his grades, but inattention in class, sometimes being disruptive & distracting other students. One day the teacher was working at the chalk board writing down things as she was teaching. She turned around to find our son under his desk bothering other students. So she called on him to answer a question about what she had been teaching....and to her surprise he got it correct! It was then she realized that ADHD wasn't his problem, he didn't have enough challenge to keep him busy. So she had him be her in-class tutor to help with some of the students that were having problems. She had no trouble with him after that, and he was placed in the Academically Gifted Program. Today at age 29 he has two BS degrees and plans to work on his Masters. He is laid back and mild-mannered. Hard to believe that some dorky doc wanted to Ritalin-ize him 'cause he thought he was ADHD. Too many doctors ( not all) are too quick to throw out a diagnosis and rip off a couple of prescriptions. That's why it's called a medical PRACTICE, because they really haven't got it all figured out yet. Unfortunately we often become their guinea pigs.....

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Reikimon_203 — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:28:48 GMT

My posting is back now. Don't know why it disappeared. Thanks for correcting the problem and putting it back in.

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Reikimon_203 — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:41:34 GMT

I placed a legitimate comment on this article and its relationship to people I know who are OCD and compulsive shoppers, looking for a natural solution. I saw it listed as a posting near Compton's 12/8 comments early Sat. morning when I made it. Now it is no longer on either page of the comments. Is there an overzealous blog editor assisting here or what? I won't make another posting if that's how it is here.

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Denver — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:20:04 GMT

I work as an Aged Care nurse & witness polypharmacy in abundance.People are precondition that they have some disease that will kill them.Funnily enough,when taken off all drugs they live until a ripe old age well into their 90`s.Now I wonder why that happens......lol

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T_rex — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:15:57 GMT

"Overmedication" seems to imply that there is a point at which medication is OK which is in my opinion misleading because any amount of medication will cause harm, in other words, any point above ZERO should be considered overmedication.

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T_rex — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:01:10 GMT

The recent Omaha mall shootings by a young man who had undergone psychiatric treatment, which invariably includes a plethora of dangerous psychotropic drugs that are proven to induce psychosis, reminds us that this society is being driven insane purposely through the use of psychiatric drugs.

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KH-Austin — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:54:32 GMT

It is very heartbreaking to hear about the challenges of autism and other similar diseases. But real disease is not at all what the original author was talking about and anyone reading this forum should understand that (I would hope). It surprises me that anyone would take personal offense. There are simply way too many people taking unecessary prescription drugs period.

The way I see it, if a person has not tried extensive nutritional and physical therapies before trying conventional drugs, they have cheated themselves from a potential cure. I know many people who have medical problems and take prescription drugs - none of them are cured from their original symptoms.

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curious7 — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:55:35 GMT

Seems to me ADHD, ADD are disorders in most cases created by the very poor diets our children are given to start their day. You know So called bresakfast cereal full of High Fructose Cornsyrup, and or sugar. Kellogg's Frosted Flakes, Rice Krispies, or General Mills Cap 'n' Crunch, Lucky Charms, just a few examples. So now it has morphed into a medical disorder, and we have a pill for this disorder.

You see we have lost our way, and the medical establishment along with "Big Pharma" is there to show us our way. The saying "knowledge is power," has never rang more true. We need to on our own reaquire the knowledge about the simple things, things we have lost after the "Brainwashing" which takes place in many of our Universities, and the media these days. Less reliance we on what many of us call "Common Sense," and more reliance on someone's theory, or theories. We need to be in a position to say no to so much intrusion by government, the brainwashing of television and the like, give direction to our children, and not buying and using a product on someones elses say so. That is without all the brainwashing, but because we have a proven product.

In this day and time we see how government is upset over "Home Schooling," and right now in some states trying to ban it all together. Why? Basically to dumb us all down so there can be no rational decisions, about what car you drive, or what food you eat. AUTOMATONS. You think?

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tyciol — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:48:42 GMT

I really disagree with Mercola!

Ageing IS a disease. How can you say there are no risks? In 100% of all cases thus far, ageing has been fatal! It's that simple. Ageing is definately natural, but why people feel that makes it acceptable is beyond me. Ageing isn't old people's fault, and if they want to embrace it, then hey, masochism is fine, but seriously I'm tired of people acting like it's actually healthy. It is the degredation of health, the advance of disorder, the invasion of entropy. We should be fighting it, even if it requires employing unnatural means. Better unnatural than dead, I think.

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Telf12 — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:33:25 GMT

Great article. As a chiropractic student in the uk i have to learn quite a bit of this stuff (not what i signed up for). i joined up to help people what did these guys show up for? It's not just greedy, but also criminal. These psychiatric lables don't peel off and it's often hard to undo the effects of their treatments. ECT anyone? Still goes on here in the UK. It's just inhumain treatment to man. I wonder if before TV when we could still hold a proper conversation and had an attention span there was less mental illness because people could talk things over with one another. Works fine in my house.

Things need to change, hopefully articles like this will help shake things up abit.

Thanks Dr Mercola & Dr Kent

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corgi — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:52:28 GMT

If you or your family members (kids) suffer from medical maladies, it might be a good idea to sit quietly and reflect on all the krap you (mom and dad) ingested while you were busy making kids. You are what you ingest. This is NOT to put the blame on you, but the chemicals, toxins, illegal drugs and poisons in vaccinations and Rx from the 'drug' store. Past generations didnt have problems like this one does. Think about it before you become irate and scream and rant. You could the problem, not your kids.

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Tikka — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:09:40 GMT

To all of you out there with ADD/ADHD -

I was diagnosed with ADD (called hyperactivity then) at the age of 6. I am now 35. The family Doc treated me with ritalin. My Mother was concerned about medicating me during my develomental years, and was concerned with the obvious side affects (mood swings, etc) of the medication. She ended up flushing the pills down the loo! My treatment plan was as follows: NO processed food at all. Absolutely NO corn syrup, NO refined sugar. NO MSG. It is true that stimulants do have the opposite affect on those with ADD - So hot black tea was served to me at breakfast.

The other thin we did is to always keep a STRICT daily routine. It worked. It took a while; but, I survived. An elementary school counselor told her I would be a good candidate for an institution. Ha! I graduated with honors from high school, a top college, and completed post-grad!

I have to admit while I was working on my Master's and was out of Mom's web - a doc precribed Adderal to me. It was great for a few weeks. A quick fix! But, the side affects were again terrible. Mom was right. I still follow her plan, and practice mind/body excercises like yoga. And it works. It is not always easy. I encourage all of you to investigate this treatment plan!

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NO ONE — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:10:58 GMT

Thank you, Dr. Mercola!

You are, as usual, right on target with your comments, so much so, that you are within the time line of a new paradigm of medical knowledge. A Dr. med. Mag. theol. Ryke Geerd Hamer of Germany has tried to have his re-discovery of 5 Biological Laws checked out by his university, Tuebingen, in 1981, but they refuse to officially verify his findings, perhaps on orders from a certain religious group, which, by the way has instructed their doctors to treat 'their own people' according to his findings with a 98% success rate.

Cancer is being created and cured by the psyche (mind) through the brain and is a Significant Biological Special Program, designed to help an organism survive; after the first phase of this two phase program is no longer required, healing takes place, which makes one fatigued and ache, but one has a good appetite again.

http://www.newmedicine.ca and http://germannewmedicine.ca are excellent places to start educating oneself; this is particularly advisable as long as one still has one's HEALTH. signed: NO ONE.

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Ber — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 23:04:27 GMT

Well, I have maintained for years that we live in a sick society and I suppose this just confirms it. LOL I can tell you what most of the problems are.... DRUGS! LOL If you have a disorder just drug it and let it fall asleep, not much shopping going to happen then. Of course not much else will happen either hence the sexual disfunction and drousiness.

I know it isn't really funny but those who swallow this are just ... well, sick.

Ber

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AuntieEm — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:19:08 GMT

If there had been a diagnosis for ADHD or ADD when my parents were children, they would have had one of these labels attached to them. Neither was medicated both have had success in their lives. My father has been extremely successful because he was a major risk taker, a "symptom" of ADHD.

When my oldest daughter was struggling in college with her upper division courses, she knew how I felt about medicating young, developing minds so she sought my opinion. At that point I told her she was a grown woman and I had done what I believed was best for her. Now she had to do what she believed would be in her best interests. I just told her to be sure and do her own research. The college's psychiatrist gave her an exam that showed she was on the outer limits of the charts for ADHD. This same doctor commented that she could not believe that my daughter had never been medicated and also asked if it was true that her mother, me, was the same and had never been medicated. My daughter stated it was all true. Later my daughter decided to control her inability to focus because she could not sit still long enough with more exercise on a daily basis as well as adhering to a better, more wholesome diet. She graduated and is successful in her profession.

My son had ADD and everyone wanted to medicated him. I refused. It was not easy and we had to seek much outside help with his learning disabilities. I still believe we did what was best looking back. He is 20 and just really, now starting to come into his own.

My opinion is that we are medicating the uniqueness out of people. ADHD people, like myself, are risk takers with lots of creative abilities. We are the entrepreneurs, the sales people, the artists, the musicians and sometimes the scientist who see a different future. As we level society with meds to make everyone the same, we are losing an important component. Instead we need to teach compensating skills to those "who are not the same".