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It's pretty remarkable that money apparently cures psychiatric disorders. Maybe we should be prescribing cash instead of ritalin to kids with ADD.
by empath75 9y ago
It's pretty remarkable that money apparently cures psychiatric disorders. Maybe we should be prescribing cash instead of ritalin to kids with ADD.
- 11thEarlOfMar 9y agoIt's about family dynamics. Parents who can focus on providing for and raising their kids will have a better outcome than those those that struggle to put food on the table. If the parents have hope and a means to deliver, the whole outlook of the kids changes from a life of coping with hopelessness to looking towards a future that they have influence over.
- empath75 9y agoI was more making a statement about how those kinds of disorders are over treated with medication when a change in the home environment would make a bigger difference.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> It's pretty remarkable that money apparently cures psychiatric disorders. Actually, the results are that it reduced the risk of developing such disorders; that there are environmental factors for psychiatric as well as other medical disorders and that many are correlated with poverty and/or economic insecurity is decidedly not news.