Child Support
In our economic times, families are experiencing new levels of stress and are being targeted by the mental health industry for all sorts of psychiatric diagnoses that lack any scientific basis. Those diagnoses are lining the pockets of the few while the many are further burdened with long-term misdiagnoses and financial strife.
The support of a child is from within the family setting. Upon the birth of psychiatric diagnoses such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), we have seen many children diagnosed and prescribed psychiatric drugs and this has disrupted the family unit in more ways than we know, to-date.
In a 2007 article, titled “The great ADHD myth”, The founder of many of the mental health disorders, Dr. Spitzer, is brought to a new light. The article states “The psychiatrist who identified attention deficit disorder - the condition blamed for the bad behaviour of hundreds of thousands of children - has admitted that many may not really be ill. Dr Robert Spitzer said that up to 30 per cent of youngsters classified as suffering from disruptive and hyperactive conditions could have been misdiagnosed. They may simply be showing perfectly normal signs of being happy or sad, he said.
'Many of these conditions might be normal reactions which are not really disorders,' he continued.
Dr Spitzer developed the bible of mental disorder classification in the 1970s and 1980s, which identified dozens of new conditions including ADD and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Since then hundreds of thousands of children have been diagnosed with ADD, a behavioural disorder linked to poor attention span, and ADHD, which adds an element of hyperactivity.”
A more recent CNN report, dated, August 19, 2011, states "...Whatever the underlying reasons for the condition's rise, a tremendous amount of money is being spent on health care and educational interventions directed at ADHD, not to mention other costs to parents. In 2005, using an estimated prevalence of only 5%, researchers estimated the societal cost of this mental illness to be about $42.5 billion.
...The percentage of children with the condition rose from 7% in 1998-2000 to 9% in 2007-2009, for both boys and girls. In some areas of the United States those figures are even higher. From 1998 to 2009, ADHD prevalence increased 10% in the Midwest and South.
...on the flip side, past research has found indications of frequent misdiagnosis of ADHD. Some parents say the first suggestion that their child might have ADHD came from educators rather than mental health professionals. That could lead to misdiagnosis and inappropriate treatment..."
Florida and Federal regulations prohibit school personnel from suggesting that someone may have any psychiatric disorder! (http://cchrflorida.org/schools-mental-health-rights.html)
The facts (http://cchrflorida.org/children-and-families) bring the truth to light, child support does start with the family and continues to end with the family. The parents’ right to raise the child and ensure he/she has a fair education, remains in the home. Understanding the fraudulent claims of psychiatry regarding psychiatric diagnoses, and understanding your rights to alternative treatments, will ensure a shift in the current trend of misdiagnosing and spending and will carry the child safely to adulthood, to tomorrow’s generation of leaders.
The support of a child is from within the family setting. Upon the birth of psychiatric diagnoses such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), we have seen many children diagnosed and prescribed psychiatric drugs and this has disrupted the family unit in more ways than we know, to-date.
In a 2007 article, titled “The great ADHD myth”, The founder of many of the mental health disorders, Dr. Spitzer, is brought to a new light. The article states “The psychiatrist who identified attention deficit disorder - the condition blamed for the bad behaviour of hundreds of thousands of children - has admitted that many may not really be ill. Dr Robert Spitzer said that up to 30 per cent of youngsters classified as suffering from disruptive and hyperactive conditions could have been misdiagnosed. They may simply be showing perfectly normal signs of being happy or sad, he said.
'Many of these conditions might be normal reactions which are not really disorders,' he continued.
Dr Spitzer developed the bible of mental disorder classification in the 1970s and 1980s, which identified dozens of new conditions including ADD and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Since then hundreds of thousands of children have been diagnosed with ADD, a behavioural disorder linked to poor attention span, and ADHD, which adds an element of hyperactivity.”
A more recent CNN report, dated, August 19, 2011, states "...Whatever the underlying reasons for the condition's rise, a tremendous amount of money is being spent on health care and educational interventions directed at ADHD, not to mention other costs to parents. In 2005, using an estimated prevalence of only 5%, researchers estimated the societal cost of this mental illness to be about $42.5 billion.
...The percentage of children with the condition rose from 7% in 1998-2000 to 9% in 2007-2009, for both boys and girls. In some areas of the United States those figures are even higher. From 1998 to 2009, ADHD prevalence increased 10% in the Midwest and South.
...on the flip side, past research has found indications of frequent misdiagnosis of ADHD. Some parents say the first suggestion that their child might have ADHD came from educators rather than mental health professionals. That could lead to misdiagnosis and inappropriate treatment..."
Florida and Federal regulations prohibit school personnel from suggesting that someone may have any psychiatric disorder! (http://cchrflorida.org/schools-mental-health-rights.html)
The facts (http://cchrflorida.org/children-and-families) bring the truth to light, child support does start with the family and continues to end with the family. The parents’ right to raise the child and ensure he/she has a fair education, remains in the home. Understanding the fraudulent claims of psychiatry regarding psychiatric diagnoses, and understanding your rights to alternative treatments, will ensure a shift in the current trend of misdiagnosing and spending and will carry the child safely to adulthood, to tomorrow’s generation of leaders.