ADHD

Dear : On Apr 30th, 2007 you asked Dr. Swingle the following question: It is my experience that ADD and ADHD do not really exist. A very large company in Switzerland invented the disorder in order to sell volumes of Ritalin to sell and have made billions of dollars since. Is this disorder not just normal child activity as Erikson would suggest. How do we buy into this marketing ploy. Dr. Swingle replies: I agree. Everyone has some cognitive inefficiencies and when there are several or some that are more severe it interferes with child's ability to attend and or sit still. We optimize brain functioning, with neurotherapy, to reduce the troubling aspects of the inefficiencies. As you suggest, we are medicating the normal behaviour of children, more so for the boisterous and male, which is an outrage.

posted by Robert Heard at 4:37 PM