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Opening Insights<\/h2>\n
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Pocket Wisdom Insights (PWI) invites you to explore the following Co-Lab Blog<\/strong>.<\/em>
\n This blog features parts of an insightful article written outside of the PWI\u00a0Co-Lab<\/strong><\/em>
\n by Peter R. Breggin M.D<\/strong>, published by Breggin.com.<\/em>
\n We have republished this content in respect of the author\u2019s vision, message and research.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Informational Insights<\/h2>\n
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Time to Call a Halt to Psychiatrically Diagnosing and Drugging Children<\/b><\/h3>\n

The latest scientific literature indicates that boys averaging age 7-9 given a diagnosis of mild hyperactivity in the 1970s and treated with Ritalin (methylphenidate) have, as a group, come to a tragic outcome. Compared to a control group of normal children from the same time period, they have much higher rates of early death, atrophy of the brain, suicide, psychiatric hospitalization, incarceration, and drug addiction. By almost every measure, they have reduced quality of life and a shortened life<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Instead of hope and enthusiasm for their futures, too many children now grow up believing they are inherently defective, and controlled by bad genes and biochemical imbalances.\u00a0 They are shackled by the idea that they have ADHD and then subdued by the drugs that inevitably go along with the diagnosis.\u00a0 Unless something intervenes, many of them will go on to pass their days on Earth in a drug-impaired, demoralized state.<\/p>\n

Why do children labeled ADHD and given stimulants as a group have such a dreadful outcome? <\/strong>There are multiple reasons, including:<\/h3>\n
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  1. The initial stimulant causes adverse effects such as depression, anxiety, agitation, insomnia, psychosis, and aggression which are not recognized as side effects. Instead, they are viewed as the unmasking of other mental disorders, leading to the prescription of cocktails of drugs that over the years ruin the individuals life.<\/li>\n
  2. The drugs \u201cwork\u201d by stifling spontaneous behavior and enforcing OCD so that the child socializes less, thinks and imagines in a more constricted fashion, and simple cannot take advantage of ordinary growth experiences because of the limits on his social and psychological capacities.<\/li>\n
  3. The initial diagnosis of ADHD ruins the child\u2019s sense of personal responsibility and self-control, so that the child no longer thinks he can control himself. This almost inevitably disrupts emotional growth and renders the child less able to grow up into a mature adult.<\/li>\n
  4. The initial diagnosis of ADHD undermines parental emphasis on teaching discipline and devoting the necessary time to the child. Professionals absolve the parents of parental responsibility, so they do not take classes or get therapy to help them improving their parenting.<\/li>\n
  5. The initial diagnosis of ADHD discourages teachers from teaching discipline to children who need attention, and so the child is robbed of learning self-discipline in the classroom.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Possibilities for Consideration<\/h2>\n

    Take a moment and examine\u2026<\/h3>\n