Have Your Kids Been Diagnosed With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Adhd?
Just the very name of this condition is guaranteed to elicit a heated and controversial
debate with followers of conventional medical approaches lined up against the natural approach supporters.As a result many families are left confused and overwhelmed as to where to turn next?
Many popular treatment options are centered around the use medication but some recent research published indicates that as many as 80% of families turn to alternative options as their preferred approach to supporting their children after diagnosis with this condition. Yet less than 10% of them disclose this fact to their medical practitioner according to a recent article in 'Psychiatric Times'. Why is that the case?
Much of the sound advice available on this condition is drowned out by emotional rhetoric. As seen recently with the views of Australia's psychologist, Prof Spillane, who is on record as stating ADHD is a myth. What Professor Spillane was saying , sadly got lost in a volcanic eruption from parents , struggling to cope with their child?s behavioural challenges. These can disrupt the family and make difficulties in the workplace combined with constant worries about school expulsions. With families in behavioural crisis at one end of the scale at the other end we have the multi billion pound pharmaceutical industry in servicing the 20 million diagnoses of this condition worldwide.
When we actually open Pandora's box to LISTEN to what is being said here some of the contentious issues become more obvious . The definition of the word MYTH takes on paramount importance. Why? Because it relates to the whole concept of ADHD diagnosis. There is no medical test which diagnoses ADHD. It is in this respect that the definition of an Illness is very important. No scientific medically objective test can be administered, to prove ADHD.
So really ADHD is not an illness as such. Illnesses and conditions are defined as such by medical tests and the results of these tests are found in all the patients who are exhibiting these symptoms. Like low insulin levels in diabetic patients, for example. This is not the case with ADHD as it is different for everyone that has it and it is defined by subjective observations of certain behaviours over a period of time, irrespective of what factors may be contributing to these behaviours.
A lot of adults claiming to have the condition will swear they were tested medically to prove they have ADHD. Some of whom may be so desperate as to clutch hold of a label vindicating their own socially unacceptable behaviours often masquerading as ADHD. In fact these symptoms usually relate to other mental health disorders.
With so many symptoms for ADHD, competent doctors will test for other conditions first before comung up with the diagnosis of ADHD. Where the 1 in 3 children who have a misdiagnosis of ADHD manage to slip through the net, is because these tests only focus on the physical and not other holistic issues that may be playing out in the child's life. Issues which relate to their emotional and mental state, life experiences and interpersonal relationships. So often these are picked up in the holistic practice which underpins alternative and natural approaches to ADHD or Attention deficit Hyperactive disorder.
It may be the case that parents are discouraged from mentioning their primary alternative / complementary treatment to the professionals working with their child due to the level of pressure and criticism that can be exerted on them. I have also seen a child refused entry into a school unless they take medication. ADHD certainly causes controversy. How is this affecting our kids?
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