I was wondering if the same applies to the "skyrocketing" diagnosing kids with ADD/ADHD, as far as many not really having this disorder, and that the true percentage is smaller than what we have been made to believe from all the stuff we read or hear.
Also, I have seen cases when I worked in a school system a few years back, that many kids were being labeled with the DX and given the meds from their GP's, I personally, and may be wrong for saying this, feel a pdoc, not a gp should be the person to make the evaluation of the child's state. I believe this disorder exists as well as other disorders, but personally I think the DX is overkill by now. I've witnessed and even had a young mom come to me about her daughter and ask, "do you think if she is on Ritalin she'll behave?" I told her Ritalin is not the answer, the child was NOT ADD, she needed some consistancy at home, the teacher I worked with who was near retirement, knew of her mom's sour marriage and this was contributing to the child's poor behaviour.
My sister-in-law is a R.N. she has said she has never seen such a rash (figure of speach) of scripts for ADD meds being sent to school, she says it is like a long line of kids coming in at lunch time for meds. she also knows of docs that write the scripts to appease the parents, not even having the child evaluated.
It saddens me when people with marital, or other problems become eager and desperate for some sort of "substitute" for what a child really needs.
Okay I rambled on enough, and probably to an obnoxious extent, ha!ha!
Thanks for reading this

DE