At 11/15/08 07:35 PM, NextToNothing wrote:
At 11/15/08 05:50 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote:
ADHD pills are such a scam.
Go pop an adderall and tell me you don't focus. It's not a scam, the shit works, its just unnecessary most of the time. I miss the good days when kids were just slow and didn't have some mental deficiency.
That's not what I mean by it being a scam. I think most prescription drugs are just the "easy way out" of treating issues. Kid can't pay attention in school? Pop a pill. Kid has a sore throat? Pop a pill. Kid has a headache? Pop a pill. Kid has a cold? Pop a pill. Kid got hurt? Pop a pill.
It's not that pills don't work or anything, but we are increasingly becoming more and more drug dependent to solve our issues. It's not healthy, and the long term effect of pills is that you need to keep taking increasing doses to have an effect, or start needing to take pills more often because bodies grow dependent on them.
ADHD used to just be, oh the kid's a little hyper. He'll grow out of it. The condition today, is just a way for parents to go "It's not my fault my kid's a mess, I'll blame it on this fancy sounding condition and let the pills do the parenting." ADHD is nowhere near as common a problem as the pill companies what you to believe, I don't think very many people at all really have that as a genuine condition, and people grow out of it. It's called childhood, all kids are like that. It could only really be considered a problem if it continues into adulthood, and that very rarely happens, even before pills solved everything.
Fun fact about me, I've had prescription drugs once: Antibiotics for an ear infection years ago. I've taken an aspirin/tylenol on average once every other year, and they didn't help much. I am legally exempt from the vaccination requirement (never had any shots, even as a baby, other than a numbing thing for when I needed stitches and novocaine for having some teeth drilled). My dad is a chiropractor and he insisted that everything be cured naturally, using weird voodoo stuff like echinaecia extract and vitamin supplements and natural teas. I know one person's experience doesn't prove anything, but I was sick a lot less than most of the people I knew, grew out of being a hyper child without need for any chill pills, and I've been pretty healthy most of my life.
Alternative medicine FTW. Half the time it seems like complete BS as to how it works or even if it works in the first place, but for some reason it worked for me. Maybe it's just avoiding "real medicine" my entire life that had an effect and not eating the leaves off of a voodoo tree or whatever, but either way I'm against popping pills to solve every minor problem that comes your way.