Illnesses and disabilities
ADHD
Category: Illness or disabilaties
Type
Involuntary
Introduction and description
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD or AD/HD or ADD) is defined as a “developmental disorder characterized by the co-existence of attentional problems and hyperactivity, with each behavior occurring infrequently alone" and symptoms starting before seven years of age.
It is “the most commonly studied and diagnosed psychiatric disorder in children, affecting about 3 to 5 percent of children globally and diagnosed in about 2 to 16 percent of school aged children”.
Boys get the condition more than girls “ADHD is diagnosed two to four times more frequently in boys than in girls”, but this may be because boys prefer to be physically active; sitting in a classroom listening to teachers all day tends to drive all of them a little demented; and also because girls tend to be more polite and compliant, keeping quiet when they are bored and unhappy.
The cause is never investigated. It is another weasel word. A symptom not a cause.
INVENTOR OF ADHD'S DEATHBED CONFESSION: "ADHD IS A FICTITIOUS DISEASE" Wednesday, March 27th 2013 By Moritz Nestor, Current Concerns
The German weekly Der Spiegel quoted in its cover story on 2 February 2012 the US American psychiatrist Leon Eisenberg, ..... who was the “scientific father of ADHD” ... said at the age of 87, seven months before his death in his last interview: “ADHD is a prime example of a fictitious disease”
Since 1968, some 40 years, Leon Eisenberg’s “disease” has haunted the diagnostic and statistical manuals, first as “hyperkinetic reaction of childhood”, and then “ADHD”. The use of ADHD medications in Germany rose in only eighteen years from 34 kg (in 1993) to a record of no less than 1760 kg (in 2011) – which is a 51-fold increase in sales! In the United States every tenth boy among ten year-olds already swallows an ADHD medication on a daily basis. .... Eisenberg .... served on the “Committee for DSM V and ICD XII, American Psychiatric Association” from 2006 to 2009. American psychologist Lisa Cosgrove and others ... in their study Financial Ties between DSM-IV Panel Members and the Pharmaceutical Industry found that “Of the 170 DSM panel members 95 (56%) had one or more financial associations with companies in the pharmaceutical industry. One hundred percent of the members of the panels on ‘Mood Disorders’ and ‘Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders’ had financial ties to drug companies".
Enough said.
Causes
Let us now presume that the symptoms of ADHD do exist even if the 'illness' doesn't. What might these symptoms be caused by?
Wrong school
Hyperactivity can result from a clever child being put in a poor school. It can result from a spiritually gifted child - a so called dreamer - being put in a school for non dreamers, a pen pushing rote learning and memorising non creative school. A school of desks and good behaviour and book learning.
It can result from a child who is not so hot academically being put in a school that is academic. In effect the child would be better doing things, playing and getting involved in sports or other active pursuits.
It can be the result of f**king awful teachers. Generally speaking those diagnosed at school are referred by a teacher. This is thus the teacher’s considered opinion of course, which then serves to deflect any ‘blame’ on the child’s inability to concentrate on the quality of teaching, the boring nature of the lessons or the inappropriateness of the subject matter.
Mild brain damage
It can be caused by very mild brain damage. Brain damage cannot be cured, but it can be helped - there is one Russian observation I have provided to show this
Constant Exposure to overload
It can be caused by exposure to overload - too many video games, too much violent TV, too many bright lights, and stimulatory input and not enough 'rest' - constant 'fight or flight' exposure, constant invocation of the sympathetic nervous system and not enough invocation of the parasypathetic nervous system.
Food additives
It can be caused by the addition of various chemicals to food
Colas and other fizzy drinks
It can be caused by sugary caffeinated and so called high energy drinks
Vitamin deficiencies and mineral deficiencies
It can be caused by an inappropriate diet and poor nutrition.
Vitamin supplements and mineral supplements
It can be caused by overdose on supplements which are no substitute for a balanced diet of good food
Drugs and pharmaceuticals
It can be caused by pharmaceuticals and other drugs - antihistamines, vaccines, antibiotics, antivirals, inhalers and cold cures, cough medicine and nasal sprays, amphetamines and stimulants a whole host of stimulatory overdose medicine.
The eHealthme site collects the Adverse Drug reports submitted by doctors to the FDA and SEDA in the USA. It then summarises them for ease of use. We originally provided a direct link to ADHD and the pharmaceuticals that can cause it, but the eHealthme website developers frequently reorganise the site and thus break the links. Thus in order to find out which pharmaceuticals are implicated in ADHD
- Follow the LINK to the eHealthme website
- Using the ‘All conditions’ index find the ADHD entry
- Now scroll down until you get to the section marked ‘Drugs that could cause ADHD”
The list shows you all the drugs implicated in CAUSING ADHD as well as the number of people who have made a complaint to their doctor and had their case reported by him. Note that it is up to the doctor whether he reports or not.
As of October 2016, about 650 pharmaceuticals were in this list.
Home life
It can result from a disruptive and unhappy home.
It can be the result of f**king awful parents.
Stress and fear
It can be the resut of stress, anxiety, fear, bullying, and boredom as well as a whole host of other negative events.
Poisoning and toxins
It can be caused by heavy metals and other toxins. It can be the result of heavy metal exposure - lead exposure is correlated with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and antisocial behaviour. Elevated lead levels in children are correlated with higher scores on aggression and delinquency measures. So leaded petrol, lead in paint – you name it that could be the cause. But we should not forget mercury poisoning and plastics poisoning and food poisoning - all culprits.
Bacterial infection
A number of bacteria are known to damage the brain and cause symptoms like ADHD. One of these bacteria is the one from Lymes disease . But other bacteria are beginning to be implicated, for example a weak link appears to be present for temporary ADHD and streptococcus
Eleven out of 22 children (51%) with non comorbid-ADHD showed evidence of A beta-hemolytic streptococcus (GABHS) infection compared to three out of 22 (14%) controls (P = 0.007).PMID: 19288046
Viral infection
ADHD has been linked with HIV and enterovirus 71. Febrile seizures due to human herpesvirus 6 or influenza A are a risk factor for ADHD. Cytomegalovirus is implicated, EBV is implicated, plus many more. Viral infections during pregnancy and at birth, are serious risk factors for ADHD.
Vaccines
When we vaccinate someone we give them a dose of a virus in the hope they will build up immunity. Where the vaccine used in the injection is a live virus, there are instances where it, although apparently vanquished by the immune system, lays low and continues to attack, albeit at a much reduced rate. Some of these viruses can reach the brain and cause brain damage. In some ways development of vaccines is putting the cart way before the horse and it is a runaway cart liable to do untold damage. We do not know the entirety of diseases or illnesses caused by viruses or bacteria, nor do we know precisely whether each one is eradicated by the immune system or simply lies low. To give anyone a live virus when this information is not known, carries enormous risk - and one of the risks may be that a child develops ADHD or worse.
Treatments
Find and Treat the cause.
On the whole, because many of the symptoms of ADHD are overload related, it would be far better to treat the child with suppression based actions and suppression based food. For example Home schooling may help.
In Russia this is being investigated quite extensively, in the USA, for reasons I am unable to comprehend, the solution medics have come up with is a stimulant drug. They are called ADHD drugs. In Europe, ordinary non medical people are sitting on the fence unable to make head nor tail of what is going on. From what we can see on our fence, the Americans may thus be prescribing stimulant drugs to unhappy children with no illness other than boredom, who may be suffering from poisoning, bad schooling, toxins and overdose levels of stimulation already. We do not understand why.
I am now going to quote Rudyard Kipling, who these days, if he had been born in the USA, might well have been prescribed these drugs. Kipling's happy days in India [a land of suppression based action and dreaming], ended when he was five years old. As was the custom in British India, he and his three-year-old sister, Alice , were taken to England—in their case to Southsea, Portsmouth, to live with a couple who boarded children of British nationals who were serving in India. They come under the heading above of f**king awful pseudo parents.
For the next six years, from October 1871 to April 1877, the two children lived with this couple. In his autobiography, published some 65 years later, Kipling recalled the stay with horror, and wondered if the combination of cruelty and neglect which he experienced there at the hands of Mrs. Holloway might not have hastened the onset of his literary life:
"If you cross-examine a child of seven or eight on his day’s doings (specially when he wants to go to sleep) he will contradict himself very satisfactorily. If each contradiction be set down as a lie and retailed at breakfast, life is not easy. I have known a certain amount of bullying, but this was calculated torture — religious as well as scientific. Yet it made me give attention to the lies I soon found it necessary to tell: and this, I presume, is the foundation of literary effort".
How it works
Most genuine ADHD children are right brained - see Brain split, which means that all spiritual experience is either from Inherited genes or 'brain damage' - that is an interestingly different configuration of their hardware that has benefited them by helping them be more open to spiritual input.
See also the Model of the Mind and the generic description of How spiritual experience works
References and further reading
see also Neurologic adverse events following vaccination Prog Health Sci, 2012, Sienkiewicz D., Ku?ak W., Okurowska-Zawada B., Paszko-Patej GRelated observations
Healing observations
- Ameliorative effects of ferulic Acid against lead acetate-induced oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunctions and toxicity in prepubertal rat brain 017777
- An open trial of light therapy in adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. 027423
- Brief Mindfulness Meditation Training Reduces Mind Wandering: The Critical Role of Acceptance 023452
- CES and its uses 006507
- Dr Duke's list of chemicals and activity for the Shallot 017969
- Dr Duke's list of Medicinal plants with Tranquilizer activity 018139
- Dr Duke's list of Medicinal Plants with Tranquilizer activity of high potency 018140
- Dr Duke's list of plants with AntiADHD activity 018403
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Tranquilizer activity 018138
- Dr Nadine Burke Harris - How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime 015244
- Dr Natasha Campbell-McBride - Food is the Best Medicine 027894
- Dr Natasha Campbell-McBride - The Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS) Diet 027895
- Drumming and music therapy for traumatised children 012354
- Fungal infections and mental illness 006899
- Heavy metal poisoning and learning difficulties in children from Brazil 013085
- Instenon and children with brain dysfunction 005769
- Korean study on foods to have and avoid in children 006291
- Mercury in foods and fish and selenium as a chelation agent 013083
- Nicotine and ADHD 005286
- Nicotine as Therapy 017963
- PubMed - Steiner Eurythmy - And ADHD 013772
- PubMed - Steiner Eurythmy - And children with chronic diseases 013761
- PubMed - Steiner Eurythmy - And chronic disease 013778
- PubMed - Successful applications of montessori methods with children at risk for learning disabilities 015194
- Pythagoras - Iamblichus's Life - Healing 'passions of the soul' and insomnia with music 014680
- Pythagoras - Iamblichus's Life - Healing with music 014679
- The Music Child 022328
- The Serotonin hypothesis – curing illness with food 028494
- TMS and anxiety, ADHD and other mental problems 006487
- Tree, Isabella - Wilding - Milk and beef facts 029101
- Use of movement therapies and relaxation techniques and management of health conditions among children 016539
- Valerian, insomnia and muscle pain 010361
Hallucination
- Adhd and Hallucination, auditory - from FDA reports 024501
- Amitril 017993
- Carbamazepine 012342
- Children given beta blockers for ADHD have nightmares 012272
- Dental amalgam fillings, anxiety, anger and depression 012331
- Dopamine agonist withdrawal syndrome: implications for patient care. 013025
- Heavy metal poisoning and learning difficulties in children from Brazil 013085
- Potential developmental neurotoxicity of pesticides used in Europe 027714
- Seeing little green spots 014404
Wisdom, Inspiration, Divine love & Bliss
- Arthur Benjamin - A performance of "Mathemagic" 014549
- Carrey, Jim - 01 How Roland Rolls 015597
- Carrey, Jim - 02 How Roland Rolls 015598
- Carrey, Jim - article and clips 006177
In time
Other observations
- Artificial food colouring and ADHD 005657
- Effects of tryptophan depletion on reactive aggression and aggressive decision-making in young people with ADHD 017325
- Health effects from low-frequency noise and infrasound in the general population: Is it time to listen? A systematic review of observational studies 027781
- Influence of rapid tryptophan depletion on laboratory-provoked aggression in children with ADHD 017324
- Link between depression and academic self-esteem in gifted children 015195
- Premature babies and mental illness 006799