Posted by SLS on February 20, 2012, at 7:13:53
In reply to Re: Lou's response-Dr John Breeding, posted by sigismund on February 20, 2012, at 1:23:45
> Actually I misspoke.
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> It is not the diagnoses so much I have problems with so much as the treatment.
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> So long as the treatment is not worse than the disease.This is a very difficult issue to address. I have little doubt that many psychotropic drugs affect the young, maturing brain in ways we cannot fully understand. When treating more severe case of ADHD, there is a balance scale of assessing risk versus benefit. You can either let the the child fail at everything in life or risk future untoward effects that are not yet known. Untreated pediatric ADHD often morphs into adult ADHD, so there is no "growing out of it".
> ADHD is so obviously culturally mediated.
I am baffled by this. What do you mean?
> I must look up the stats from different countries for ADHD. Including non western countries.
Oh. You mean reporting practices and diagnostic criteria vary. There might also be a difference in treatment practices. I don't know. What do you think?
Do you believe that the disease itself is culturally mediated?
- Scott
Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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