Well the title is pretty self explaining.
World wide studies have depicted that about 10% of population has one of these mental illnesses, whether diagnosed or not, chances are that you may even have them, but just do not notice.
OCD (Obsesive compulsive disorder.) - Its the instinctual habit of obsessing over certain things, depending on where your intrests are brought. They could be as simple as housework, to as complicated as advanced mathmatics.
ADD ( Attention deficit disorder.) Self explanatory, its the imparative habit of remaining concentration upon one individual task for a long time.
ADHD (Attetion deficit, hyperactive disorder.) Same as ADD except it attributes the over hyper and energetic personality to boot.
Now the topic of this thread is to acknowledge if doctors and parents should really be medicating their children to solve this issues.
Certain drugs may include, Ritilin, Aderal, Paxil, Clonodine, or Respritol.
Now I was diagnosed with all three of these growing up and from personal experience I believe that taking the easy way out and drugging your kids is not the correct decision. The result of many of these pills will effectively tranquilize the child and they will miss out on much of the joy of childhood. In the end I cheated everyone by secretly not taking my medication, so that I could attempt to handle self corrections and problems of my own accord. This all took place 7th grade and below.
Now my arguement on this issue is that it is not only a medical and genetic disability, but attributes to your own personality as well, and I think its honestly bullshit for other people who have the power to medicate children, to do so. I do not think people can fully grasp the understanding of a child and that its a crutch and excuse that takes away from the understanding that life has problems, and attributes that drugs can be the answer.
Further more I think that if parents are to drug their kids through out their whole childhood, it takes away the ability for them to mentally handle and deal with these problems on their own accord. I think this could result in a even larger problem when kids turn into adults and have become used to medication calming themselves down. Once they are adults there will be nobody to enforce such drugs and their lack of personal control that they never had a chance to learn, can potentially be even more dangerous to the human mind than the alternative.
I will also add that many of these illnesses are blessings in in disguise. Micheal Phelps has extreme ADHD, and he attributes this to one of his abilitys to being as exceptional as he is. Personally having both OCD and ADD I find that these two balance each other out to having more exceptional effects then the average human. The OCD gives me the ability to maintain extreme focus on anything I do, and its balanced by the ADD that gives me the effect of being able to focus on more then one task at a time, resulting in a more focused mind. I think that if I were to take drugs my whole childhood and adult hood I would not have many of the experiences and abilities that I have, but rather I would be a zombie that believes I have a problem, and that I RELY on drugs to make me NORMAL? I think that normal is perception, and people who are different are just afraid of difference.
Everyone feel free to share your opinions on the subject matter. Should we be medicating our children with these illnesses, or letting them learn and grow from them, and into them.
Please be kind and make sure you at least have a brief idea of these disorders before commenting.
World wide studies have depicted that about 10% of population has one of these mental illnesses, whether diagnosed or not, chances are that you may even have them, but just do not notice.
OCD (Obsesive compulsive disorder.) - Its the instinctual habit of obsessing over certain things, depending on where your intrests are brought. They could be as simple as housework, to as complicated as advanced mathmatics.
ADD ( Attention deficit disorder.) Self explanatory, its the imparative habit of remaining concentration upon one individual task for a long time.
ADHD (Attetion deficit, hyperactive disorder.) Same as ADD except it attributes the over hyper and energetic personality to boot.
Now the topic of this thread is to acknowledge if doctors and parents should really be medicating their children to solve this issues.
Certain drugs may include, Ritilin, Aderal, Paxil, Clonodine, or Respritol.
Now I was diagnosed with all three of these growing up and from personal experience I believe that taking the easy way out and drugging your kids is not the correct decision. The result of many of these pills will effectively tranquilize the child and they will miss out on much of the joy of childhood. In the end I cheated everyone by secretly not taking my medication, so that I could attempt to handle self corrections and problems of my own accord. This all took place 7th grade and below.
Now my arguement on this issue is that it is not only a medical and genetic disability, but attributes to your own personality as well, and I think its honestly bullshit for other people who have the power to medicate children, to do so. I do not think people can fully grasp the understanding of a child and that its a crutch and excuse that takes away from the understanding that life has problems, and attributes that drugs can be the answer.
Further more I think that if parents are to drug their kids through out their whole childhood, it takes away the ability for them to mentally handle and deal with these problems on their own accord. I think this could result in a even larger problem when kids turn into adults and have become used to medication calming themselves down. Once they are adults there will be nobody to enforce such drugs and their lack of personal control that they never had a chance to learn, can potentially be even more dangerous to the human mind than the alternative.
I will also add that many of these illnesses are blessings in in disguise. Micheal Phelps has extreme ADHD, and he attributes this to one of his abilitys to being as exceptional as he is. Personally having both OCD and ADD I find that these two balance each other out to having more exceptional effects then the average human. The OCD gives me the ability to maintain extreme focus on anything I do, and its balanced by the ADD that gives me the effect of being able to focus on more then one task at a time, resulting in a more focused mind. I think that if I were to take drugs my whole childhood and adult hood I would not have many of the experiences and abilities that I have, but rather I would be a zombie that believes I have a problem, and that I RELY on drugs to make me NORMAL? I think that normal is perception, and people who are different are just afraid of difference.
Everyone feel free to share your opinions on the subject matter. Should we be medicating our children with these illnesses, or letting them learn and grow from them, and into them.
Please be kind and make sure you at least have a brief idea of these disorders before commenting.
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