Posted by linkadge on June 3, 2004, at 17:25:13
In reply to Re: There is something wrong with these children » linkadge, posted by Chairman_MAO on June 3, 2004, at 17:00:06
Normal is what feels right.
Take it from the children. The ones who respond to the medication say things like, "for the first time I was able to think about weather or not to hit the other kid", or "I am able to focus on what is infront of me", or "finally my mind shut up".
I know the notion is that we want kids to be a certain way, and we are trying to drug them to make them that way. However, you will find that *if* these medications work, they help the child in many more ways than just in school such as:, on the playground, communicating their thoughts and feelings, more able to focus on their hobbies etc.
I knew one kid, that was so hyperactive, he couldn't even sit long enough to beat super mario brothers level 1-1. Even if this kid wasn't in school, he would have still found ritalin a life saver.
Ideally, the drugs are not used to force the children to be a certain way, but rather used to help the child take charge of his or her future, whatever that may be.
In the severest cases of ADD, a person would be very unlikely to hold any job, simply because they lack the ability to plan anything out.
It is just like antipsychotics. They are often prescribed these days to help things much less than true psychosis. We don't even have the tools to identify what exactly is happeneing in the brain of the psychotic. But we're not going to deprive John Nash of cholopromazine simply because be don't know exactly how it works, or what is wrong with Nash to begin with.
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