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Alternative treatments for ADHD
In the middle of the ongoing debate between those who say ‘ADHD’ is real and those who say it isn’t, there’s a rather large crowd of people who seem to have accepted the ‘ADHD’ hypothesis, but don’t necessarily agree that pharmaceuticals are the best way to deal with it.I found a number of websites offering drug-free alternative therapies to ‘cure’ the symptoms of ‘ADHD’, or at least keep them ‘under control’. There are also many books and tapes available on how to ‘manage’ your ‘ADHD’ child. If you can afford it, you can hire an ‘ADHD’ coach for those quality one-to-one moments, or send your child to a customised ‘ADHD’ camp.
It seems to me that, if ‘ADHD’ doesn’t exist, a LOT of people will see their profits going down the Swanee. That’s just me being mildly cynical, of course!
So, the big question. IS ‘ADHD’ real?
Well, if ‘ADHD’ is a ‘brain disease’, that means something has happened to the brain, doesn’t it? To me, that means something observable and identifiable. Something that would show up in a brain scan and enable a medical practitioner to distinguish between a child who has ‘ADHD’ and a child who doesn’t. There would be objective data, in other words.Dr. Michael Valentine seems convinced that, in the matter of ‘ADHD’, there’s no such thing:
“… ask any Doctor or leading expert in the field, "If you had 100 children with ADHD and 100 who did not, and I gave you any medical, biochemical, genetic, PET scan, MRI or new theory of the day information you wanted, could you tell me, just from that information, which ones have ADHD and which do not?" The answer will be NO! There is no medical test for ADHD. There are no physical markers for ADHD. There is no medical evidence for ADHD.”
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