Diet and ADD/ADHD

You may want to talk with your doctor about being tested. ADD/ADHD can be controlled with diet but, there are other alternatives, too. Let me know if I can be of any help.

God Bless...

What kind of Dr do you go to a GP?

You'll need to schedule an appointment with a psychologist or psychiatrist to do the formal testing. Just tell them when you call that you want to be tested for ADD. A psychologist will usually do the testing, but if they decide to treat it with meds, a psychiatrist will have to handle that.

Poor diet and exercise can cause ADD-like symptoms, but if you actually have ADD, diet and exercise don't fix the underlying problem. ADD is a deficiency in the release and uptake of dopamine, norepinephrine, and a few other chemicals in the brain. Among other things, these chemicals (mainly dopamine) are produced when you start to focus on something. In a person with ADD, this doesn't happen effectively, so they have trouble concentrating.

If you are actually ADD, then don't put a lot of faith in the alternative solutions you hear about. Other problems are often misdiagnosed as ADD because the symptoms are relatively common. If it's actually ADD, it's a neurochemical deficiency. The only real solution is to increase the production and usage of these chemicals in the brain. The prescription meds that do this are the safest way to handle it, since you're under the care of a physician.

My cousin and one of my friends at school both have ADD. I had a friend who moved who had ADHD.
What you eat may have something to do with either one of these, but something that has been found in some studdies very recently is that the majority of boys who have ADD/ADHD are actually just acting like boys.
My teachers when I was young had me go to a doctor to see if I had it, but luckily he said I was acting normal.
A lot of kids are being falsly told they have this problem.
I am saying this because you're unsure on whether you have one of these or not. If you have a har dtime consontrating, or sitting still then you may have it, but if you're young than maybe, just maybe it's because your young and have lots of energy.
Since I'm a person who almost was put on drugs, and because I know a few people who where put on drugs this toppic is serious to me.

--Sorry for spelling and grammer errors

Thomist82 said:

You'll need to schedule an appointment with a psychologist or psychiatrist to do the formal testing. Just tell them when you call that you want to be tested for ADD. A psychologist will usually do the testing, but if they decide to treat it with meds, a psychiatrist will have to handle that.

Poor diet and exercise can cause ADD-like symptoms, but if you actually have ADD, diet and exercise don't fix the underlying problem. ADD is a deficiency in the release and uptake of dopamine, norepinephrine, and a few other chemicals in the brain. Among other things, these chemicals (mainly dopamine) are produced when you start to focus on something. In a person with ADD, this doesn't happen effectively, so they have trouble concentrating.

If you are actually ADD, then don't put a lot of faith in the alternative solutions you hear about. Other problems are often misdiagnosed as ADD because the symptoms are relatively common. If it's actually ADD, it's a neurochemical deficiency. The only real solution is to increase the production and usage of these chemicals in the brain. The prescription meds that do this are the safest way to handle it, since you're under the care of a physician.

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physciatrists suck as dont go to them they will just drug you just wrap yourself in activitiesd and live your life...i have ADHD extreme i am a authority just be yourself PM me if you like like! yah yah yah oh im always hyper check my urine i dont do drugs this is natural oh baby im hyper.....................

No Proof Mental Illness Rooted In Biology
by Keith Hoeller


What is "the mental health movement?" Its proponents claim that millions of Americans are afflicted with a mental illness, which is a disease "just like any other" and that the mentally ill suffer from a chemical imbalance in the brain that is corrected by psychiatric drugs.

Mental illness is said to be the cause of many of our society's social ills, such as suicide, murder, divorce, child abuse, sex offences, depression and various addictions. If only mental illness could be cured, mental health supporters say, all of these ills could be prevented.

Because the mentally ill often are unaware of their disease, treatment must be forced on the mentally ill. All 50 states have laws that allow involuntary treatment if professionals deem they are a danger to self and others.

Psychiatrists, we are told, can now accurately diagnose mental illness and have safe and effective treatments. Psychiatry is considered a valid medical specialty, like cardiology, and the claims of the movement are based on scientific research.

The largest lay group is the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI). The media routinely refer to NAMI as advocates for the mentally ill, although its membership consists almost entirely of family members and not the mentally ill themselves. NAMI ascribes to the "biological basis of mental illness," and endorses forced treatment of the mentally ill.

The movement's major source of funding is the highly profitable pharmaceutical industry, which funds the drug research; which funds psychiatric journals, and even the American Psychiatric Association itself; which funds advertising to doctors and the public; and even funds lay groups such as NAMI (at least $11 million) and Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder (at least $1 million).

Yet many professionals claim that the mental health movement is not a legitimate medical or scientific endeavour, let alone a civil rights movement, but a political ideology of intolerance and inhumanity. Numerous psychiatrists and psychologists have examined the psychiatric research literature and found it to range from smoke and mirrors to quackery.

Psychiatrists have yet to conclusively prove that a single mental illness has a biological or physical cause, or a genetic origin. Psychiatry has yet to develop a single physical test that can determine that an individual actually has a particular mental illness. Indeed, The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders uses behaviour, not physical symptoms, to diagnose mental illness, and it lacks both scientific reliability and validity.

On Aug. 16, eight members of MindFreedom (www.mindfreedom.org), an umbrella organization of mental patients who call themselves "psychiatric survivors," began a Fast for Freedom "to press for human rights and choice in psychiatry" and to "demand that the mental health industry produce even one study proving the common industry claim that 'mental illness is biologically-based.' "

Dr. James Scully of the American Psychiatric Association responded to the hunger strikers by claiming the evidence was so vast one need only look at "Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General" (1999) or a recent psychiatry textbook.

An expert panel for the strikers, made up of members (like myself) of the International Centre for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology (www.icspp.org), quickly responded by pointing out that neither of these works contains any such conclusive proof. Actually, the surgeon general's report on mental health states that "the precise causes (etiology) of mental disorders are not known" and "there is no definitive lesion, laboratory test, or abnormality in brain tissue that can identify (a mental) illness." The Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry (1999) states: " ... Validation of the diagnostic categories as specific entities has not been established."

In its reply to the fasters, the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill did not cite any scientific evidence at all.

In 1784, a similar debate raged in Paris about the scientific validity of the latest psychiatric nostrum (hypnotism) and its inventor, Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer, who claimed to have discovered a physical mechanism he called animal magnetism. The Academy of Sciences formed a panel, including American scientist Benjamin Franklin and French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, to assess the movement sweeping the city, and concluded that Mesmer's "cures" had no scientific basis. They were due entirely to the power of suggestion, now called the placebo effect. The Royal Society of Medicine issued a report with similar findings on Aug. 16, 1784.

Let us hope the Fast for Freedom has a positive outcome for all involved.

If not, let us insist that the American Medical Association (or similar body) form a panel of objective, non-psychiatric scientists, without any ties to drug companies, to examine whether psychiatry should continue as a medical specialty or if it should join the historical ranks of alchemy, astrology and phrenology as a pseudoscience.
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Dr. Keith Hoeller is editor of the "Review of Existential Psychology & Psychiatry" in Seattle.

PHILLIP DAY'S COMMENT: The fraudulence of almost all psychiatry is examined in detail in my book, The Mind Game, for which The Campaign for Truth in Medicine received a human rights award earlier in the year. In this work, the reader will learn of the quackery and downright criminal activity, perpetrated by psychiatry, which continues to plague our society. From ADD to schizophrenia to dyslexia and 'learning disorders', Dr Hoeller is indeed correct. These are not 'mental diseases'. When these symptoms exist at all, science has found physical ailments which affect the workings of the mind at the root of them. As such, these can be successfully treated in most cases using nutritional and lifestyle strategies.

In The Mind Game, there is a chapter on the school shooting phenomenon in America. Another examines Hollywood and how psychiatry has killed some of our best loved stars. Another conducts an in-depth analysis into the rock, pop and rap industry, and show the forces at work within it that have destroyed the lives of many working in the entertainment industry.

Further resources
The Mind Game by Phillip Day
from: http://campaignfortruth.com/Eclub/Eclub%20searchable/271003/psychiatry.htm