The Man Who “Discovered” ADHD Makes a Startling Deathbed Confession

[bonnie]

The Man Who “Discovered” ADHD Makes a Startling Deathbed Confession

Posted on January 16, 2015 by Jade Small —

 

“ADHD is a prime example of a fictitious disease.” These were the words of Leon Eisenberg, the “scientific father of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder),” in his last interview he gave before his death at age 87 in 2009.

(While some have described Dr. Eisenberg’s statement as an “exaggeration,” many doctors are coming to the belated conclusion that ADHD is often “over diagnosed” by the use of “fuzzy diagnostic practices.” Harvard psychologist Jerome Kagan, who is one of the world’s leading experts in child development, states:

“Let’s go back 50 years. We have a 7-year-old child who is bored in school and disrupts classes. Back then, he was called lazy. Today, he is said to suffer from ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). . . . Every child who’s not doing well in school is sent to see a pediatrician, and the pediatrician says: “It’s ADHD; here’s Ritalin.” In fact, 90 percent of these 5.4 million kids don’t have an abnormal dopamine metabolism. The problem is, if a drug is available to doctors, they’ll make the corresponding diagnosis.)

Eisenberg made a luxurious living off of his “fictitious disease,” thanks to pharmaceutical sales. Coincidentally, he received the “Ruane Prize for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Research. He has been a leader in child psychiatry for more than 40 years through his work in pharmacological trials, research, teaching, and social policy and for his theories of autism and social medicine,” according to Psychiatric News.

Yes, it was even admitted that they are his THEORIES. The medical industry is using the guise of helping children to depersonalize and disconnect our children from a healthy, normal upbringing. Parents are placing their children on these drugs and subjecting them to what the world has to offer, when in fact all these children are looking for is their parents in hopes of being the blessing that God intended them to be.

In the United States, 1 out of 10 boys among 10-year-olds takes medication for ADHD on a daily basis . . . with increasing tendency

American psychologist Lisa Cosgrove and others reveal the facts in their study “Financial Ties between DSM-IV Panel Members and the Pharmaceutical Industry.” They found that “of the 170 DSM panel members 95 (56 percent) had one or more financial associations with companies in the pharmaceutical industry. One hundred percent of the members of the panels on ‘Mood Disorders’ and ‘Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders’ had financial ties to drug companies.”

And they are reaping major benefits from this “fictitious disease.” For example, the assistant director of the Pediatric Psychopharmacology Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and associate professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School received “$1 million in earnings from drug companies between 2000 and 2007.”

Marc-André Gagnon and Joel Lexchin, a long-time researcher of pharmaceutical promotion, performed a study which shows that the U.S. pharmaceutical industry spent 24.4 percent of the sales dollar on promotion, versus 13.4 percent for research and development in 2004. That is almost twice as much money to push their drugs on people than the amount to research to make sure it they’re safe!

This raises the following question: Are they safe?

Read the antidepressant black-box warning for yourselves, and you will be alarmed by the side effects listed on the inserts:

– Confusion

– Depersonalization

– Hostility

– Hallucinations

– Manic reactions

– Suicidal ideation

– Loss of consciousness

– Delusions

– Feeling drunk

 

[bonnie]

ADHD is said to be the first disease invented for a drug to cure. Overwhelmingly, it is diagnosed for boys and not girls. And it is all part of the "War on Boys."

 

I have had some interesting long discussions with pharmacists regarding this drug and one side effect not is listed and not well publicized is:

 

Irreversible Paranoid Schizophrenia

 

When my own son was in the first grade, his teacher thought he should be evaluated for ADHD. I knew what would be coming next and simply informed them that he would not be put on drugs, deal with it.

 

The current school system is not the best place in the world for young boys to be.

I do think it became a fad disease and many children were placed on medication. We had a son that was so active that while I was still pregnant I had to sit in a rocking chair and rock to calm him down so I could sleep. He hit the ground running and has never stopped.He did need a firm hand but I would not have wanted him on drugs

[Gregory Matthews]

ADHD overdiagnosed:  Yes, and probably widely.

 

Ritilan overused:  Well known.

 

However, the truth of the above does not mean that it is not a real condition.

 

Your "deal with it" is actually a valid, at least partial response.  E.G.  Appropriate treatment may involve much more than a simple Rx for Ritilan.

[Ted Oplinger]

ADHD overdiagnosed:  Yes, and probably widely.

 

Ritilan overused:  Well known.

 

However, the truth of the above does not mean that it is not a real condition.

 

Your "deal with it" is actually a valid, at least partial response.  E.G.  Appropriate treatment may involve much more than a simple Rx for Ritilan.

 

Agreed and agreed.

 

Have to deal with this personally - both in myself and in my youngest. Nothing fictitious about what we deal with daily. Instead of Ritalin (methylphenidate), the prescription of choice is Adderall (an amphetamine salt). Very similar effect to the caffeine I take to control mine. Very different creature from Ritalin...

 

Blessings,