The Heart-Wrenching Project

Well, I will just dive head first into this one. I go to a school where you get to choose the projects you do, so for health I decided to do a project on ADHD because it went along with another one of the projects I was doing at the time. I thought that if I did two projects 'in the same neighborhood', i would do the projects in half the time, and I did. When I finished my first project, which was on Indigo Children, I started on my second one, ADHD.

Throughout my research, I was shock at some of the things that happen to a child with ADHD. One of the books that made me speechless was ‘How To Reach And Teach Children with ADD/ADHD: Practical Techniques, Strategies, and Interventions’ by Sandra F. Rief M.A. I was completely fine reading the cover of the book until I saw the word ‘interventions’. I was very upset with this but not as upset as I was that parents would read this book and listen and follow what was written. The rest of my research wasn’t much better, but slowly, I made it through this heart-wrenching project. One of the horrid things was the misdiagnosis and the fact that the parents and doctors hadn’t looked into it that much and gave them prescription for who knows how long and who knows what damaged could have been caused. All in all, I would have to say this was one of the most eye-opening and upsetting projects that I have ever done and I wished that the information was different. I’m not one of those people that have a problem with the truth but just the way the health system works and the way some parents think just shocks me.

In my opinion, I think parents could, scratch that, should look into what their child could have instead of sending them to the doctor and possibly putting them on prescription that they will probably never need in the rest of their lives. The prescription could cause something much worse than what the intent of the medicine was for in the first place. How about considering all of the possibilities first? Maybe the child is gifted, or has a few phobias. Oh, here's a crazy idea i just thought of, maybe it's just a regular, plain, laid back, kid. But no. That couldn't be it. The poor kid has to be exposed for something that they DON'T EVEN HAVE. Parents like this sicken me.

That's my opinion and I'm done..... for now.