Let me start of by telling a short story; my mother was a
second grade teacher at a school in Peru. She dealt with the different behaviors
and personalities of kids. There was one kid who started losing concentration,
couldn’t focus, and didn’t want to work. My mom and the school’s psychologists
noticed this. This kid was diagnosed with ADHD; the first thing the
psychologist recommended was to go under medication. A few weeks on medication
there was a drastic change in the kid. He seemed ill; he wasn’t active or
young-spirited as he was. He would hide himself under his books, lunchbox, and
would always cover his face. When someone would talk to him, he’d never look at
them and only would answer by shaking his head as answers. Whenever he had any sort of interaction within
his friends, he’d always turn out hitting or excluding those who weren’t his
closest friends. Shorty, he started not speaking either; he became depressed.
His parents were very concerned, so they took him to the hospital. He had to be
in the hospital for several weeks. He was given several treatments and went
through intense medications. When he came back to school, he literally seemed
like a zombie child. He expressed no emotions, he had the expression of being
miserably tired, but he could have any sort of panic attack so there was a
nurse in the school that would be responsible of looking out for him. The
little second grade kid who was energetic, but lacked concentration was now the
depressed boy who was ill and considered ill amongst everyone. He lasted three
days in school, having a panic attack once or twice a day. He left school and
did not come back.
What is ADHD? Well it basically is known as a disorder. 8-10% of schoolaged kids, especially boys are diagnosed of it. This simply means that these kids can’t sit still, have a hard time focusing, they have a hard time being attentive and or obeying what they’re told.
Nowadays people treat everything with medications. If one has a cold one takes medication to cure their illness, not their grandma’s natural remedies. That’s perfectly okay, right? I mean one’s pain is gone and they recuperate quickly. But aren’t there side effects? Of course, usually pills heal/alleviate pain of/a symptom/pain, but what people don’t take in mind is, while it heals (or seems to heal) one thing in their body it is also harming something else; either one’s stomach, bones, etc. This happens with kids who are under medication due to their ADHD. The side effects that children will get are the following, underdeveloped growth, abdominal pain, loss of appetite, and other symptoms. There are two kinds of treatments that a person who was ADHD meds and therapy. I personally believe a child shouldn’t go through medication if they are said to be diagnosed with ADHD. In my perspective, therapy is essential for treating and actually attending, helping, improving a kid’s actions, thoughts, and attentiveness/concentration skills. Why on earth put a young child under pills and medication when a well-trained psychologist can help improve the kid’s life with the kid actually doing things/activities/talking/learning how to improve in the aspects he lacks. People obtain knowledge by learning/experimenting/failing/hearing advice/ facing their problems not by magically taking a pill. Most people say that ADHD isn’t real; they say it’s due to bad parenting. If ADHD is or isn’t real that’s not something I will discuss, but what I am concerned about is the fact that people are putting kids under the slave-life of taking medications when they can “act human” and learn how to dominate their struggles with the help of one who has more knowledge, in this case a psychologist/having therapies.
What is ADHD? Well it basically is known as a disorder. 8-10% of schoolaged kids, especially boys are diagnosed of it. This simply means that these kids can’t sit still, have a hard time focusing, they have a hard time being attentive and or obeying what they’re told.
Nowadays people treat everything with medications. If one has a cold one takes medication to cure their illness, not their grandma’s natural remedies. That’s perfectly okay, right? I mean one’s pain is gone and they recuperate quickly. But aren’t there side effects? Of course, usually pills heal/alleviate pain of/a symptom/pain, but what people don’t take in mind is, while it heals (or seems to heal) one thing in their body it is also harming something else; either one’s stomach, bones, etc. This happens with kids who are under medication due to their ADHD. The side effects that children will get are the following, underdeveloped growth, abdominal pain, loss of appetite, and other symptoms. There are two kinds of treatments that a person who was ADHD meds and therapy. I personally believe a child shouldn’t go through medication if they are said to be diagnosed with ADHD. In my perspective, therapy is essential for treating and actually attending, helping, improving a kid’s actions, thoughts, and attentiveness/concentration skills. Why on earth put a young child under pills and medication when a well-trained psychologist can help improve the kid’s life with the kid actually doing things/activities/talking/learning how to improve in the aspects he lacks. People obtain knowledge by learning/experimenting/failing/hearing advice/ facing their problems not by magically taking a pill. Most people say that ADHD isn’t real; they say it’s due to bad parenting. If ADHD is or isn’t real that’s not something I will discuss, but what I am concerned about is the fact that people are putting kids under the slave-life of taking medications when they can “act human” and learn how to dominate their struggles with the help of one who has more knowledge, in this case a psychologist/having therapies.
