Does ADHD Exist?
Does ADHD Exist?But, hold on, here’s Gregory K. Fritz, MD, Bradley Hospital medical director and Hasbro Children’s Hospital child and family psychiatry director, making an equally emphatic statement to the contrary in his article ‘ADHD Is No Myth’.
“Myth: ADHD does not exist as a real psychiatric disorder; rather, it is an unfortunate labeling of normal childhood behavior promulgated by ineffectual parents, incompetent teachers and the pharmaceutical industry.
ADHD has received more scientific scrutiny than any other childhood psychiatric disorder since Charles Bradley’s initial 1937 report of effective treatment with stimulants of children at the Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital in East Providence. ADHD has met the same standards as other major psychiatric disorders included in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition. Studies have shown that experts can reliably agree on the diagnosis of individual patients with ADHD and can do so consistently. Better genetic evidence exists for ADHD than most other psychiatric disorders.”
posted by Robert Heard at
9:37 AM
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Yes, it's hard to believe we are still having this debate. ADHD is NO myth - just ask a parent of a child with ADHD. We're not bad parents, and we're not making this stuff up - the executive functioning of the brain is different in these kids - someone once said that adhd kids and not clueless, they are CUELESS. I live this each day as a mom to an 8 yr old boy who has ADHD, a nonverbal learning disability, AND giftedness in verbal processing and reasoning.
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