Over-analyzing/Over-diagnostics

**Posts:** 1 · by **psychward** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 4:49 am

It seems in this day and age Psychologist feel the need to over analyze or over diagnose the children. Cases of 6 year olds being diagnosed with ADD and being put on ridelin, which by the way is in the same class of drugs as marajuana. This thouroughly disgusts me, isn't there a point where we can just say, he's a 6 year old. And not try and corrupt him into our interpretation of "normality". Honestly, people got by for centuries without all of the details we have today in psychology. Is anyone normal, does anyone really have a life where therapy isn't neccessary? I think people should learn to deal with their own problems. And I think maybe we've stepped to far.

**Posts:** 5816 · by **Michael Lank** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 9:03 am

Hi Psychward,

Welcome to the forum.

It does seem to be apalling that more and more children, whose brains are still developing are given Ritalin, a stimulant.

You might be interested in this earlier thread and this one on the subject.

I like the quote "have you noticed how ADHD has replaced childhood".

**Posts:** 2522 · by **kfedouloff** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 11:28 am

I like this quote:

“If people are educated to believe they are fundamentally fragile, always on the verge of mortal disease, perpetually in need of healthcare professionals at every side, always dependent on an imagined discipline of ‘preventive’ medicine, there can be no limit to the numbers of doctors’ offices, clinics, and hospitals required to meet the demand ... We are, in real life, a reasonably healthy people. Far from being ineptly put together, we are amazingly tough, durable organisms, full of health, ready for most contingencies. The new danger to our well-being, if we continue to listen to all the talk, is in becoming a nation of healthy hypochondriacs, living gingerly, worrying ourselves half to death.”

Lewis Thomas, 'The health-care system', in The Medusa and the Snail - more notes of a biology watcher, New York: Bantam, 1979.

Kathleen

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