Attention deficit disorder,
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, learning disorder, conduct disorder,
etc.
Profile
In 1987, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD
) was voted into existence by
members of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) during the compilation
of its DSM
-III-R mental illness register.
Within one year, 500,000 children in America
alone had been diagnosed with an affliction, created by a show of
hands, which had no apparent corresponding physical brain
disorder and no science. Many children have subsequently been
prescribed dangerous, mind-altering drugs to control their behaviour. By
1997, 4.4 million citizens had been labelled ADHD
.
In 1975, US federal law had provided funding and psychology
-based education for ‘learning
disabilities’. By 1989, 1.9 million had been diagnosed as having Learning
Disorder
(including Attention Deficit Disorder). At the end of 1996, 2.6 million
American children had been branded ‘special needs’. Did funding play a factor
in this mass diagnosis? Today, ADHD
is said to account for a third to half of all child mental health
referrals.
In my book The Mind Game, I expose the cynical manipulation and deceit practised by psychiatry and the truth behind what ‘mental illnesses’ actually are. They are physical problems that affect the way we think and behave, and the phenomena of ADD and ADHD are no exception. If you, or someone you know, suffers from behavioural abnormalities that have been diagnosed ADD/ADHD, before you or your family resort to the proffered drug treatments, which include mind-altering substances such as Ritalin