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ADHD is a fad again?! Shame and Guilt are back!

August 28th, 2010 · 18 Comments · 01 My Thoughts, 03 ADD ADHD Fraud, Myths about ADD ADHD, News about ADD ADHD

ADD ADHD Fad or Fruad or Myth

Seems things are going to get worse before they get better.

I just read another article about ‘the myth of ADHD’ by someone who raised my eyebrows. Mr. Herr, an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Studies, Leadership and Counseling at Murray State University, wrote a recent article titled - ADHD: Has this diagnostic fad run its course?

According to Mr. Herr, ADHD is a diagnostic fad! His article perfectly underscores my recent blog post about how a report in the media can be skewed by the headline (in this case the entire article). I am not going into detail about how accurate a report authored by an assistant professor of economics about ADHD children and misdiagnosis of ADHD at an early age might be (Youngest in class get ADHD label - another headline to go with my previous collection). However, people are paying attention to it and when someone who is an assistant professor in the department of educational studies for a university openly writes that ADHD is a fad of its time, well, there you go. Would you want to be a student with ADHD at his school? Just asking…

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Lara Honos-Webb, Ph.D. Books For ADDer World Members!!

June 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Interactive ADDer World

Just yesterday Lara let me know it would be wonderful to donate ALL 4 of her books for giveaway contests on our ADDer World ADHD Social Network!! These will be upcoming contests and will be random drawings from members who get their name into the hat by participating with comments, replies and blog posts.

We currently have two other books, after Bryan Robinson’s The Art of Confident Living, which will be given away in similar contests! The Books are by Dr. Nancy Irwin YOU Turn and Kenneth Kaye Ph.D. with Nick Kaye Trust Me.

Not only can you win a valuable book, but you will also show all of us your tremendous ADDer World Sprit!

Yeah! You ROCK!

Check out the current contest for Bryan Robinson’s book The Art of Confident Living and get your name in the hat.

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Keep on Keeping on with ADHD

March 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments · 01 My Thoughts

Keep on, Keeping on.

 

Sometimes that’s all we can do. Sometimes we do something tragic, something which is so disappointing that it hurts so much, the pain is excruciating, it resonates through our entire being and we just can’t help but ask ourselves… why? Why does it have to be that way… why does it have to be so hard… did I do something to curse my life, my existence… does my God hate me?
 
Ever feel that way? Ever curse the ground you walk on and just want to give up, lay down and say ‘no more!’? It’s so easy. It’s so natural. It’s so much a part of the condition we call ADHD that it isn’t something we want to describe or contemplate, it just is and too often we can’t seem to do anything about it.
 
I wish I didn’t, I wish I was… I wish… I wish… I wish… I wish… We can wish as much as we want, and the sunrises the next day, we hope for the best, it’s just another test, will the challenges overwhelm us?
 
Just keep on keeping on. The sun will rise, keep on keeping on.
 
So easy to say, so easy to repeat the words, they play back and we continue forth without choice or will, and keep on we do, we must, we can, we have to. Keep on, keeping on.

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