The most ridiculous childhood ‘disorder’ yet

While we’re talking about ADHD, there’s another “co-existing disorder” kids are being diagnosed with out there. It’s one that shows how far this terrible epidemic of drugging our children has gone.

The condition is called “oppositional defiant disorder” or ODD. It first became an “official” ailment in the early ’80s.

And if you want a mental picture of its symptoms, well, just visualize any small child, especially one in the “terrible twos.”

A child with ODD is said to have “frequent outbursts,” a “tendency to argue” and “ignore requests,” and my favorite, “engage in intentionally annoying behavior.”

So that toddler you saw (and heard) having a meltdown in Walmart because he couldn’t have a talking Elmo doll, well, that was a textbook case of ODD.

Now, the good news is that over half of preschoolers will outgrow this terrible condition by the time they turn eight (something most moms could have told all these “experts”).

But the bad news is that the treatment for ODD can involve one of the worst and most addictive drugs out there. One called Vyvanse.

That may have a familiar ring to you, because Vyvanse just got the green light from the FDA for adults to take for the brand new condition called “Binge Eating Disorder,” or BED.

But back when BED was merely a gleam in the drug maker’s eye, Vyvanse was given the FDA’s blessings for use in kids as young as six.

Vyvanse is an amphetamine that can become highly addictive after only a short time. And trying to get off the drug can cause some real side effects, such as personality changes, an increased heart rate and panic attacks. In other words, real mental (and physical) disorders.

And two years after the FDA gave the okay for this drug to be taken by kids, a seven-year-old in Florida committed suicide while on it. The child hung himself in a shower.

Of course we’ll probably never learn the real number of innocent little children who have been injured, and even destroyed, by this drug and similar ones.

But what I do know is that far too many have been placed in harm’s way by a system that seems intent on giving dangerous meds to children, all because they’re acting like…children.

Source:

“What is oppositional defiant disorder?” Royce Flippin, Additude, additudemag.com