Science Top Neurologist Blows Whistle: ‘ADHD Does Not Exist, It Was Invented To Hook Kids on Drugs

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Top Neurologist Blows Whistle: ‘ADHD Does Not Exist, It Was Invented To Hook Kids on Drugs’​

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September 26, 2024 Baxter Dmitry News, US 13 Comments

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) does not exist and was invented by Big Pharma in conspiracy with government regulatory agencies to hook young and vulnerable children on lucrative psychiatric drugs, according to leading American behavioral biologist Dr. Richard Saul.
“After 50 years of practising medicine and seeing thousands of patients demonstrating symptoms of ADHD, I have reached the conclusion there is no such thing as ADHD,” explains Dr. Saul.
“This so-called condition has apparently spread like wildfire across the globe in recent years, with a huge increase in its diagnosis and medication,” Dr Saul continued. “More than 4 per cent of adults and 11 per cent of children in the U.S. have been diagnosed with ADHD.”
We all have scatterbrained moments where we struggle to get organized, zone out, or have an angry outburst – all signs of ADHD. Many assume medication’s the answer, which explains the uptick in children being treated.
However, a new report was released by Express Scripts last month that revealed an alarming statistic: Between 2008 and 2012, the number of Americans who use medication to treat ADHD rose 36 percent.

Are the Signs of ADHD Actually Signs of Other Issues?​

“In my view, not a single individual is afflicted by the disorder called ADHD as we define it today,” says Dr. Richard Saul, M.D., behavioral neurologist and author of “ADHD Does Not Exist.”
Signs of ADHD are related to more than 20 medical diagnoses (such as poor eyesight, sleep deprivation, and bipolar disorder) and when they’re treated, the attention-deficit and hyperactivity symptoms disappear.
“We define this ‘illness’ by its symptoms, rather than its cause,” he explains. “Nasal congestion can be a symptom of a cold, allergy, or many other conditions, but a runny nose is not a diagnosis.” His book is causing quite the uproar in the medical community, as well as with people who have ADHD.
Regardless of whether you agree with him or not, the firestorm the book is creating is nothing but good: We’ll now go to our physicians with a greater awareness to make sure we’re being treated for the actual issue, and not the symptoms of the issue.
The one thing I’m sure we can all agree on was put best in the Express Scripts study:

“The trends here signal a need to look more closely at how and why physicians prescribe these medications for adults and the need for prescribers to fully assess the entire psychosocial landscape of an individual patient prior to reaching for the prescription pad.”

There’s never been a time where we’re as distracted as we are now: Our everyday technology makes us feel like we’re missing out if we’re not paying attention to a million things at once, and we ladies are already suckers for multi-tasking. Sigh. Sadly, the increase in ADHD medication usage didn’t surprise me at all.
It’s time we open the dialogue and shift our way of (unfocused) thinking toward the possibility that one day it might be called “the disorder formerly known as ADHD.”

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[TheArtilleryman]

I think much of the blame also lies on the average Joe Redditors failure to make sense of a grossly superficial society where mental illness is seen as a virtue instead of a challenge one must overcome. I think many frustrated normies want a diagnosis because then they too would get to be special and all their stress would finally make sense! It's just their brain chemistry, they were born that way! And now they can get some gnarly drugs to help out.

It's easier than confronting the underlying causes of their mental instability, which for many I believe lies more in their frustrations regarding society and relationships as opposed to actual mental illness.

Drugs are always easier though.

 

[MembersSchoolPizza]

I thought those medications calm down people who do have ADHD, but have effects like any other stimulant on normal people. ADDtists are the ones who start behaving better and more calmly when you're all doing lines of dex etc. off the kitchen table in university, right?

Basically. One of the symptoms of ADHD (as I learned in adulthood) is people who have altered responses to caffeine. I can drink caffeine till my heart explodes and it doesn't make me "wired" or help me stay awake or anything. It relaxes me, actually, and helps me sleep. Same basic effect.

 

[Burning Bridge]

We're gonna find out that every "mental illness' is actually just people adversely reacting to an environment that's gone insane, aren't we? Society is a madhouse, but we're gonna medicate everyone up and pretend everything is fine until we can't anymore.

 

[Megaton Punch]

It's just their brain chemistry, they were born that way! And now they can get some gnarly drugs to help out.

Not to mention infinite excuses. Take a gander at r/thanksimcured if you want to lose all faith that depression even exists. The entire sub is just redditors seeing people say "you've been sitting in your room getting high and jacking off for 20 years, perhaps a lifestyle change might help" and getting diarrhea-inducingly furious that someone out there is questioning their valid self-care routine of hedonism and uselessness.

At this point I'm entirely convinced that 95% of "mental illness" is a made-up excuse to be a lazy piece of shit.

 

[2ndBest]

The source in the OP is a crock of shit. Nevermind what you think about ADHD or whether it exists, the source is a quack in of itself. Has anyone read the article at all?

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

We're gonna find out that every "mental illness' is actually just people adversely reacting to an environment that's gone insane, aren't we? Society is a madhouse, but we're gonna medicate everyone up and pretend everything is fine until we can't anymore.

Can you identify a time society wasn’t a madhouse though? Because human history is basically constant strife, stress, and struggle for most. The ideal of the American Dream with white picket fences was not a reality for the majority.

 

[Brahma]

Thank god my doctor told my parents to get occupational therapy over medication first. This is horrible to hear...

Basically it should be the first port of call, but medicos know that people are lazy shits.

Take the average 40 year old who goes in to their GP and comes out with an ACE inhibitor as a first port of call.

The doctor could recommend losing weight, getting excercise, change in diet and lifestyle etc, but realistically the adherence rates are fucking awful, so throw the pills at them

It's the same with parents of ADHD kids. There's a lot the parents could do to help, diet is a huge part of it considering it's basially a dopamine disorder, but nope, most parents are lazy shits and the medicos know it.

 

[Burning Bridge]

Basically it should be the first port of call, but medicos know that people are lazy shits.

Take the average 40 year old who goes in to their GP and comes out with an ACE inhibitor as a first port of call.

The doctor could recommend losing weight, getting excercise, change in diet and lifestyle etc, but realistically the adherence rates are fucking awful, so throw the pills at them

It's the same with parents of ADHD kids. There's a lot the parents could do to help, diet is a huge part of it considering it's basially a dopamine disorder, but nope, most parents are lazy shits and the medicos know it.

You give a lot of benefit of the doubt to the medicine industry. You're assuming that doctors would even recommend a behavioral change in the first place. Pills are the name of the game now. I shudder to think of all the various kickback schemes in place to get doctors to prescribe specific medications over one another.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

“After 50 years of practising medicine and seeing thousands of patients demonstrating symptoms of ADHD, I have reached the conclusion there is no such thing as ADHD,” explains Dr. Saul.

it says this is from the USA but they're using empire spelling of practicing
also I'm glad after a HALF FUCKING CENTURY he noticed, maybe "Top Neurologist" should have started chatting after he got a hunch twenty five years ago?

 

[Safir]

I'm a teacher, it definitely exsists. There is a huge difference between students who are bored and fidgety vs students who are like squirrels on crack.

“More than 4 per cent of adults and 11 per cent of children in the U.S. have been diagnosed with ADHD.”

I'm Russian (Soviet to be precise). I'm not a teacher, I'm a normie who finished 9 grades of school as God intended (skipping 1 and 4), and I've been in 4 classes total -- so, ~100 classmates, plus lectures, so let's say I was able to observe the classroom behavior of 200 schoolchildren. (I don't count music school because that selects for non-tards.)

I've only seen a squirrel on crack once, in the first month of 1st grade (I skipped the rest, he might've gotten better). I should've seen at least 11% of 200, so 22. (Russian children were undrugged at the time.)
I've also seen four coombrains who should've been executed with a gunshot to the head, and one well-behaved but slightly off maybe-autist maybe-raised-by-grandmother (I don't have anything against grandmothers but the circumstances which led kids to be raised by one could've fucked them up).

Those squirrels on crack that you see? They's like that because they're being drugged.

Some of the alternative explanatons are:

• overfunded American schools OR affluent American upbringing is severely fucking children up into insanity
• Americans are genetically deficient
• niggers

Those don't look plausible. W.r.t. niggers, whenever I see someone attention whore about ADHD, it's a whytoid, and generally the charts I've seen show blacks get the raped less unless it's court-ordered.

 

[autistic dog]

ADHD is an executive function disorder that can be see in action on PET scans. The different "types" or ADHD are mainly related to how the person copes with this dysfunction. An interesting side effect of this is that the disease can present differently in boys and girls or adults vs children. This espcially complicates gathering global numbers since different cultures also present differently.

 

[Bakarina]

ADHD probably does exist but is over diagnosed because it's a way to drug a child into a zombie like state so teachers don't have to deal with them

Spoiler

Had a childhood acquaintance that was fidgety and didn't like sitting still and every couple of days the school told his mom that he had ADD or ADHD and needed drugs because he was a "distraction". Mom had him tested and he ended up having a ridiculous IQ. Mom went back to the school and said she wouldn't be drugging her kid and if their was any advanced classes she could put him in. School said no. She suggested personal workbooks he could focus on, school said no. Extra work? No, because it "wasn't fair" to the other children in the classroom. The school didn't want to teach the boy, they just wanted him drugged and quiet. Long story short he's now a neurosurgeon, living his best life

 

[MembersSchoolPizza]

The source in the OP is a crock of shit. Nevermind what you think about ADHD or whether it exists, the source is a quack in of itself. Has anyone read the article at all?

This place is no more immune to confirmation bias than Reddit, it just tends to be very different biases.

 

[BobbyBriggs69420]

This place is no more immune to confirmation bias than Reddit, it just tends to be very different biases.

Wtf are you on about mate? Probably one of those that think seatbelts and airbags "save lives"

 

[MembersSchoolPizza]

Wtf are you on about mate? Probably one of those that think seatbelts and airbags "save lives"

Fun fact: I was in a serious car accident when I was young. Car was knocked off the road and down an embankment. Front wheels sunk in the gravel, car flipped. Rolled end over end.

I was decapitated by my seatbelt. It's true. I've been dead every since.

 

[Day Walker]

My grade school teachers insisted I had ADD, my parents pointed out that I was visually impaired, couldn’t see the chalkboard and was probably bored. It was the 80’s when the US started mainstreaming kids with disabilities and most teachers didn’t want to have to change their teaching style. Any kid who didn’t sit down and shut up for hours at a time had ADD and needed medication.

 

[Gog & Magog]

Go ask 10 parents who have kids under the age of 5 how those kids are. 10/10 will respond "litte jessy/johnny has ADHD and Autism". Every.Fucking.Time.

Maybe the reason why the kids misbehave is because they were given shitty genes by their shitty parents?

In every circumstance the doctor immediately wants to push extremely addictive drugs onto the child that require lifelong use and result in extremely nasty side effects that ruin their lives. And we all accept this as normal despite it being unthinkable a few years ago.

I don't understand how others can find stimulants like adderall addicting or helpful for concentration. I get it but not personally. Maybe there's just something wrong with me?

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Maybe the reason why the kids misbehave is because they were given shitty genes by their shitty parents?

There's some truth in that, but I never heard "timmy is being a little shit" like I used to do 20 years ago. Every parent, good and bad, now has a full-time tard wrangling job.
Although, If I were being pedantic, I would say any parent who raises their kids on a tablet or smart phone is automatically a bad parent, even if, OTOH, with both parents' working, it is sometimes easier. I would cut them some slack if the crotch-goblin was watching educational Youtube videos 24/7 and not "How Uncle badtouch now wears a wig and pretends to be your aunty is a good thing".

Feminism and the push for women in the workplace, catalysed with instant-access slop-entertainment, has led to a generation of spastic spawn.

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

No, it definitely does. It's overdiagnosed, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

No he's absolutely right. I have a little experience in this field so I can say that this is absolutely true. If you don't believe him, nigga doctors are willing to mutilate kids, cut their tits and dicks off and graft flesh wads onto women. What makes you think they aren't above inventing diseases? In fact, you've seen them invent fake diseases in your lifetime. We all have. He's absolutely right. The criteria for diagnosing this garbage has expanded to an amorphous blob that can apply to everyone and everything for endless paychecks.

 

[Equal Rights for Androids]

What he’s right about is that we have turned a symptom into a disease to medicate, instead of addressing the symptoms

It truly depends on the situation. A lot of adults have undiagnosed ADHD. ADHD has different forms. The one I'm familiar with is the one where you don't have the energy to do anything but eat sleep watch tv and play games. Those are the only things that give you enough dopamine to do things. Not even doing your favorite things produces enough dopamine. It's a slog. I know an adult who was recently started on ADHD medication for the first time and he was an entirely different person. Someone who was able to be a productive member of society instead of feeling like it was pulling teeth.

I've tried to lower my dosage but even a 5mg drop was enough that I wasn't functional over three months, despite adhering to a very healthy diet and conforming to exercise (it was a lot harder). Had to pace constantly to get enough focus to study. It was so hard to learn anything.
Some people genuinely just don't have enough dopamine in their brain naturally to function without stimulants. I become a hungry fuck who sleeps and eats all day. I'm annoying without my meds, no impulse control. ADHD is real but as others have said, ridiculously overdiagnosed. Only medication could fix my issues as a child. I was just too sleepy and hungry to focus on school, nothing could grab my attention. The meds cured me. They made me normal.