Random post week 4

I needed more sources badly.

great men : ADHD canidates.

intro-conclusion:

Intro:
Marie sits in the waiting room of her family doctor office. Tommy, her 5 year old son, bounces on the couch next to her. A closer look at Marie’s eyes revel redness and bags from lack of sleep. Marie is here to discuss Tommy’s behavior with the doctor. Back in the doctor’s office, Marie tells Dr. Herbert that Tommy doesn’t listen to anything she says and is always bouncing around. Here is where a normal reader would pause and tell Marie to stop feeding Tommy popsicles for lunch and cookies for dinner and that a time out every once in a while wouldn’t harm him. Then why is that a PhD. Trained doctor would say little Tommy has a mental disorder? The disorder is ADHD.
Conclusion:
After extensive research on ADHD, and a second opinion from another doctor, Marie decides that instead of giving Tommy Ritalin or Adderall, She is going to watch what she feeds him and follow a 7 step parenting plan set out by a top physician. Only a few weeks into this “alternate” and cheap treatment, Tommy is already straightening up. His grades have greatly improved and he is joining the local tee-ball team. His first practice is tonight and Marie couldn’t be happier.

Wednesday 4/21/10 homework

My topic is on ADHD. It is a disorder that makes children hyperactive and not be able to focus for long periods of time. The question that is trying to be answered in the paper is whether or not it is real and who gets to make the decision. This is to convince others that It is indeed a false disease that has no proof of existence and is based purely on here say. I found my research under a lot of doctors papers and books. There was one in particular that wrote a long detailed book on ADHD. The topic is very important to me because I know a lot of people who claim to have this ADHD but seem completely normal to me. I also have a sister that was told to drink mountain dew because for someone with ADHD it reverses the effects, causing them to calm down. That seemed like a bunch of bull to me.

Random Post Week 3

So this week in German History, I heard about syphilis causing famous people to go crazy and them becoming famous because of this. Now I fear my once really great topic for a paper has been replaced. I think it would be a good research paper to find out what exactly syphilis is, how it affects people, what famous people had it, and how it is now being cured. What crazy genius might we as a human race have stopped by curing it.

Random weekly number 2

This week I learned to check my email for class cancellations lol.

I find my subject more and more interesting. The more I look up. I missed the extra credit this week and was disappointed by it. I see all my friends already writing their papers and glad that I get all this time to research my work. It gives me time to find more sources for it.

Wednesday April 14, 2010 homework-Citations

Works Cited

Adams, Mike. "Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, ADHD, Has a Simple Cause: Poor Nutrition and Food Additives." Independent News on Natural Health, Nutrition and More. 19 Aug. 2004. Web. 14 Apr. 2010. .

-Food is the cause of this condition. It's poor nutrition and too many sweets that make a child hyper.

• "Let's face it -- the human brain is a flesh and blood organ, and it is strongly influenced by blood chemistry, which is, in turn, dictated almost entirely by diet. What you eat, in other words, determines what your blood composition looks like, and what your blood composition looks like determines the way your brain functions. "
• "when you eat processed foods containing additives and artificial colors, you are introducing toxic chemicals into your bloodstream. Those chemicals find their way into the brain and alter brain function"
• "But it isn't just food additives -- it's also refined carbohydrates. People who eat large quantities of white bread (or food containing refined white flour) also suffer from mental disorders. These can include depression, aggression and violent behavior, and learning disabilities. "

"Adhdtesting." ADHD Testing Issues regarding Testing, Drugging, and Diagnosis of ADD/ADHD. Web. 14 Apr. 2010. .

-ADHD can't be measured by any standards.

• "A teacher might observe that a child has marked inattention on a daily basis in his or her classroom. This is the teacher’s own observations."
• "At this point it is critical to restate the fact that the American Psychiatric Association (APA) voted ADD in as a “mental disorder” by a show of hands (majority vote) in 1980 at their committee meeting, without scientific evidence present"
• "In 1998, The National Institute of Health held a Conference on ADD/ADHD. At the end of this conference they issued this statement: "....We do not have an independent, valid test for ADD/ADHD and there are no data to indicate that ADD/ADHD is due to a brain malfunction.""

Block, Mary A. "No More ADHD « CCHR International." CCHR: Watchdog Information on Psychiatry, Psychiatric Disorders and Psychiatric Drugs. 15 Sept. 2009. Web. 14 Apr. 2010. .

-ADHD is just sugar induced children.

• "I have seen and treated thousands of children from all over the United States, who had previously been labeled ADHD and treated with amphetamine drugs"
• "The Annals of Allergy, reported in 1993, that children with allergies perform less successfully in school, across the board, than children who do not have allergies."
• "There is no valid test for ADHD. The diagnosis called ADHD is completely subjective. While some compare ADHD to diabetes, there really is no comparison. Diabetes is an insulin deficiency that can be objectively measured. Insulin is a hormone manufactured by the body and needed for life. ADHD cannot be objectively measured and amphetamines are not made by the body or needed for life."

"Brain Studies Show ADHD Is Real Disease - Drugs.com MedNews." Drugs.com | Prescription Drugs - Information, Interactions & Side Effects. 6 Aug. 2009. Web. 14 Apr. 2010. .

-ADHD can be measured in Brain tests

• "s a real disease linked to changes in production of the brain chemical dopamine"
• "If you have a certain variant of this gene, you have a greatly increased risk of having ADHD," said lead researcher Dr. Philip Shaw, a researcher in the Child Psychiatry Branch at the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health"
• ""About one-quarter to one-fifth of children with ADHD has this gene variant," he said. "That's higher than the general population where about a fifth to a sixth has the variant.""
• "In a second study, scientists found that, in contrast to the common wisdom, ADHD is associated with lowered dopamine production."

Breeding, John. "Does ADHD Even Exist?: The Ritalin Sham - The Natural Child Project." The Natural Child Project - Celebrating Attachment Parenting and Unschooling since 1996. July-Aug. 2000. Web. 14 Apr. 2010. .

-personal story of a child with "ADHD"

• "Nathan had been diagnosed at age five with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and had taken Ritalin for a year. Alice thought the drug greatly helped her son, slowing him down enough so that he could listen and process information."
• "Proponents of psychiatric drugs attest that they "work," meaning they alter mood, thought, and action."
• "Like Alice, a large percentage of adults who take psychiatric drugs or give them to their children would prefer to avoid them"

"What Is ADHD?" KidsHealth - the Web's Most Visited Site about Children's Health. Web. 22 Apr. 2010. .

Random Blog week one

So I have found out a lot about ADHD. One of the things I found out was that my boyfriend's stepbrother has it. His father felt very strongly against me when I told him I was writing this paper. He went on to say that he isn't using the drugs that treat it. I didn't agree that the boy has ADHD because I feel he has so many other problems. I wondered if I should use some version of this story to make my essay or if I should still look for something more exciting. My boyfriend's mom even had something to say. She agrees with me that it is made up and that they are using it just to drug the children. I felt this discovery was important to my essay because it shows that ADHD is even effecting my own family.

Friday April 9,2010 Homework

Research sources:

1. ADHD: Caused by food additives!! Link
2. ADHD: real, doctor speaks out on it Link
3. ADHD: Most are just an allergy problem Link
4. No clear test for ADHD Link
5. Pediatric doctor writes book against ADHD Link
6. Ph.D wants Natural Children Link

Audience:
I feel like my audience in this paper is going to be aimed at anyone who ever wondered if ADHD was fake. It will be aimed at parents who don't want a life of drugs for their kids. Doctors who are diagnosing kids with this disorder.

Wednesday 4/7/10

My topic is ADHD and if it's real or not.

My thesis(choices):

1. ADHD is a disease that we as humans created in order to drug our children.
2. Parents drug their kids without reason.
3. We are a drugging our children to make our lifes easier.
   

Further research on: ADD: did we create it?

ADD or Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder(ADHD)

• What is it? Google health had a lot to say about it( Link ) It is said to be inattentiveness, over activity or both.
  
• What are the signs of it? Google health listed what to me sounded just like a kid with too much sugar. "fails to pay close attention to details, difficulty sustaining attention, doesn't listen when spoken to, doesn't follow instructions, hates schoolwork) They all sound familiar to me.
• How do we cure it? Most children are put on medications such as: Methylphenidate (Ritalin, Concerta, Metadate, Daytrana,Dexmethylphenidate (Focalin),Amphetamine-dextroamphetamine (Adderall), Dextroamphetamine (Dexedrine, Dextrostat), Lisdexamfetamine (Vyvanse) But what do they do?
• -Methylphenidate: speeds up mental processes. used also to treat narsolepsy. I found this in a medical site (link) "THE MODE OF ACTION IN MAN IS NOT COMPLETELY UNDERSTOOD" How safe can that be? Oh and it also can stunt growth and weight gain. And that's just one drug.
  
• Another thing google warns you about is it causing sudden deaths in children with heart problems.
• It says ADHD is genetic. If that is so then everyone must have it.

I didn't want my bog to just be about what it is. So I started trying to find sites that agree with me that it is fake.
This isn't what I found however. I found a site saying it was proven to exist.

• Link it states that dophimine levels are what is affected.
  

Research choices

My three possible choices as research topics are:
1. Chemotherapy, is it helping or hurting?
2. Are women still being taking advantage of?
3. ADD: Did we create it?

I chose the first one because one of my friends brought up that some people refuse chemo because they don't want to feel miserable for the last days they may be alive. I feel that women are constantly being taken advantage of and I want t find statistics that prove it. And the last one is the one I will probably do. I feel like every child now and days is diagnosed with ADD. I want to know if we created it.