Comments on: Special Report: ADD ADHD is Fraud! Say what?

By: Sunset

Sunset — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:41:26 +0000

I beleive that ADHD is real as we see it. The symptoms are very real I can garantie you that. I was diagnosed ADD i 2005. So the symptoms are very real, but after that there is nothing more to say…. ADHD has never been proven to be genetic og a desease.

Unfortunately it isnt possible to measure the dopamine correctly as they say thay can, and if they really could measure it, it doesnt mean any thing because the brain changes all the time and by almost any impact like stress, traume and like it it changes.

I tell you…My ADD have disappeard. It have worked hard with my self. ALL my symptoms are today gone. First I stopped beleive in medication and the obviously wrong fact that ADHD is a disease, you’ll never get rid of it and medication is the way. Second I start reading more about books from the critics. In the beginning I thought it sound stupid that ADHD did not exist. Then it became clear to me what was happening to me and my surroundings(my ADHD friends).

The fact was that I have been stressed since I was very small. But…
1. My fast running brain came from too many thoughts, which came from stress and bad self esteem.
2. My impulsivity came from stress
3. My ADHD-behavior came from bad self esteem.
4. My constant misunderstandings came again from bad self esteem.
5. bad sleep cam from the many thought(fast running brain) which came from stress and way of living and bad thought patterns…

I could go on…

So my beleive today is that ADHD as a disease is a fraud, and the self-stigmatization is making us even more mental ill….

Take care of your self and take the responsebility. Don’t use ADHD as an excuse. I did that once too. Today I feel ridiculous about it. I just moved the responsebility somewhere else. With that I stood still in my life. I did that in 5 years. Argh! I’ll never waste my life with a such bad documented diagnose as ADHD again…

So the ADHD is a fact only a pattern of behavior and nothing else. The illness around it is created to make money. this is the point where we are harming our children and adults as well.

If you do not agree then please read about the medicine industry, thier interest, thier way to determine a diagnose, the psychiatry’s history before you reply. There are many books about the subject. I can’t use empty arguments..

Have a nice day Take care!

By: Dlizard

Dlizard — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:28:52 +0000

It is unfair that people say ADHD is a fraud. I was diagnosed about a year ago at 32. I am 33 now. Being diagnosed was very welcoming after not knowing all my life. I was just labled Learning Disabled growing up, but the teachers never really knew. I never really fit in that Special Education system. I was diognosed with a labled learning disability a few years with attentional focus problems. I got diagnosed because I had a professor noticed I had ADD. I wanted to find out the truth. I wanted it documented what I finally knew. My disability Advisor at the Univerisity I attend knew I had ADHD, and a learning specialialist at another college I went to knew I had ADD but did not know the type. I was finally diagnosed with ADHD-Combined Type. I can’t take medicine for it because I take medicine for a seizure disorder that is controlled. But, knowing I can do things now to help. I do drink caffine to help. But the Body Flow(Tai Chi, Yoga and Pallites) helps me learn how to focus better, ballance and breathing. I still got more challenges in the class then most people. but it helps. I also take body pump(weight lifting) to help with ballance, focus, cordination. When I miss a week, especially the body flow I find it harder to focus.

The people that say it is a fraud don’t know what it is like. They don’t know that you got a brain that runs fast constantly, they don’t know that you fidget and drum your fingers because it is hard to sit still. There not with you when you do something wrong and you don’t know what you did.

By: ADDrienne

ADDrienne — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 09:07:57 +0000

What an awesome article. I am SO sick of people who say ADHD isn’t real. Well, it is. Before I was diagnosed at 30, I lost my career, was depressed, abused narcotics, had no friends and I wondered what the heck was wrong with me!
I am on social security because of my ADHD. I am back in college and working towards rebuilding my life. Needless to say I am very vocal about this topic!!

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 04:17:47 +0000

Here’s PROOF, ADD/ADHD is NOT a fraud. This report is from August 2007:

http://health.msn.com/centers/adhd/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100167402&gt1=10316

By: Anne-Marie Barrett

Anne-Marie Barrett — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:09:58 +0000

Thank you for this article. My son was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 5, though it was very clear that something was wrong when he was an infant. At nine months of age, he slept 4 hours per day.

He received occupational therapy, psychological therapy, and drug therapy for many years. Unfortunately, due to people telling him that NOTHING was wrong with me, he discontinued any therapy that he was receiving. He is now 23 and still struggling in all areas of his life.

It is so nice to see someone coming out and reporting on the cost that people with this order pay in their lives. Now if we can only come up with an effective treatment for this disorder.