I AM writing in regard to the story on the so-called psychiatric condition Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), the label given to children who display poor behaviour (Giving Condition Full Attention, News Shopper, July 19).
It is a subject which continues to be shrouded in controversy.
German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin first devised a system of codification of human behaviour, while simultaneously acknowledging psychiatry had no effective treatments or cures for most psychiatric disorders.
More than a century later, things have not changed. Poor childhood behaviour or ADHD, having been codified as a disorder, was literally voted into existence in 1987.
Children are now being diagnosed with chemical imbalances despite the fact no tests exist to support such a claim.
With millions of children labelled as having ADHD, psychiatrists are creating a generation of potential drug addicts.
Last year, in England alone, £18.4m was spent on central nervous system stimulant drugs.
It is worth considering what would happen if a child was cured of so-called ADHD. If it did, the psychiatrist would be out of business.
Brian Daniels
National spokesman
Citizens' Commission on Human Rights (United Kingdom)
PO Box 188
East Grinstead
West Sussex
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