Shocking: Scientist Who “Discovered” ADHD Now Claims It’s a Fake Disease

Leon Eisenberg, the scientist who discovered the ADHD, in his last interview before he died reported that ADHD was a key example of a fictitious disease. This scientist has won the Ruane Prize for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Research. He was one of the major scientists that studied the child psychiatry for more than 40 years and he has conducted numerous researches, pharmacological trials, teachings and social policy, especially in the field of autism and social medicine. What can possibly be the reason for a scientist to discredit his own work of so many years in the blink of an eye? Is that maybe guilty conscience?

Every year, about 6.4 million of children are being diagnosed with ADHD. How is then this possible? This is explained by Jerome Kagan, a psychologist at Harvard and a leading specialist in childhood development. According to his explanation, we have the same types of child characters as 50 years ago. However, there is a difference in the treatment. 50 years ago, when a seven-year-old child was bored in school and disturbed the classes, it was called lazy. Nowadays, children with the same attitude and character are immediately diagnosed with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). But, this is wrong, because the children that are not doing well in school are sent to the pediatrician and they are the ones who immediately give them this diagnose, the ADHD, and they immediately prescribe the medicine, Ritalin. Actually, in 90 percent of these 6.4 millions of cases of children with ADHD, the problem is not the abnormal dopamine metabolism. However, doctors have this medicine, the Ritalin easily available, and that’s why they so easily give this diagnose.

This view of Jerome is an interesting one. This problem refers to a great part of the child population in America, because 1 in 10 boys there take this medication on a daily basis. There was a study, “Financial Ties between DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) Panel Members and the Pharmaceutical Industry”, published by Doctor Lisa Cosgrove. This DSM is a group of guidelines that almost all doctors turn to in the diagnosing of mental conditions and disorders and their treatment. It is not unexpected at all that the research has discovered that out of the 170 DSM panel members 95 of them (56 percent) had one or more financial associations with companies and pharmaceutical houses. All members (one hundred percent) of the panels on ‘Mood Disorders’ and ‘Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders’ were financially connected to the drug companies.

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