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health advisory Hospital Mental Health 2007-11-15 19:01:19

i dont mean to offend anyone but this was never in the news 5+ years ago, is it just something the professionals conjoured up to label all the badly behaved children there are in the country????

Answer:

This is an interesting point, I can certainly see where youre coming from. I think that ADHD has probably been around for a lot longer than we realise, but it has onyl just now got its label, the same as things like dyslexia, IBS etc - the symptoms have always been around bu no one knew what they meant.

I think some parents (we know the type - good ol'd jeremy Kyle guests namely!) use ADHD as an excuse to be bad parents, however when a child is diagnosed by a doctor as having ADHD you cant really argue.

I think part of the problem is also the rise in use of addictives, preservatives, chemicals etc in food, and indeed the environment. This has a detrimental effect in so many ways and I personally think a lot of illnesses and allergies have been aggrevated by these unnatural products being present more than in the past. I for one suffer a lot more with my IBS now than when first diagnosed 10 years ago and I swear a lot of it to do to with whats in my food.

Hope this gives you another side to your question xx

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probably

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no its just more recognisable now than it was 5 - 10 years ago just like what dyslexia is

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Are you watching the Jeremy Kyle Show too?