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Post by Amtram on Feb 9, 2014 20:23:48 GMT -5
But selling something that will "cure" it. The Price of ADHD Business is so full of awful things that I had to hack at it piece by piece on my blog, here. But feel free to say what you think about the article right on this thread. I hate when people do this stuff.
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Post by tigger on Feb 12, 2014 0:07:19 GMT -5
You just can't "cure" neurobiology and wishing doesn't make it so.
Something that occurs to me is that ADHD attracts idiots because there isn't buy-in. There isn't buy-in because of fear. Fear is based in the reality that so many of our symptoms are similar to things that are fairly common. Unfortunately, ADHD takes those fairly common things and blows them up.
What is so painful is that there ARE reasonable alternatives to medications for those who simply can't take medication. Are they as good as meds for managing ADHD? Not really, but they provide some relief and can help to keep vulnerable people from going down paths of drug use for self-medication. Blowviators like this tend to cloud that fact.
ADHD isn't a moral failing, it is a neurobiological differentiation that has results in significant impacts to the individual. That someone would take something with the far-reaching impact of ADHD as a "get rich" scheme makes me ill.
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Post by Amtram on Feb 12, 2014 8:41:10 GMT -5
We spend most of our lives convinced that it is a moral failing. But nobody ever suggests a magical cure for that! But what kind of mind can say over and over "it doesn't exist," and then proceed to "buy my stuff if you want to cure it"? I have ADHD, and that jumps out at me right away, so it shouldn't take an incredible amount of attention to see the contradiction.
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Post by dotty on Feb 12, 2014 19:27:59 GMT -5
When there's something that doesn't have a proven cure, like ADHD or some forms of cancer, there will be plenty of people who will step up and try to sell a 'fix it' or a 'cure'. But it does seem like an oxymoron to say a condition isn't real but you have a cure for it. Doh.
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Post by tigger on Feb 13, 2014 0:19:07 GMT -5
Dotty, you are so right. When my husband was dying of cancer, every self appointed expert came out of the woodwork to tell us all the ways we were doing it wrong. As if the crap they were peddling was somehow "right".
To me, this is part of why sites like this one are valid and important. We are able to shed light to the crap people like this are peddling.
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