So on the drugging I wanted to lend my voice to the fact that while it is over diagnosed in children ADD/ADHD does exist, it is a real condition and at times in

So on the drugging I wanted to lend my voice to the fact that while it is over diagnosed in children ADD/ADHD does exist, it is a real condition and at times in a persons life it can be debilitating. I personally was diagnosed with ADHD later in life and from the moment I took my first dose the transformation on my abilities was profound. ADD/ADHD medication is one of the true success stories of mental health treatment. Unlike depression, bipolar and other conditions if a person suffers from ADHD, in the vast majority of cases, they will improve and improve significantly with medication and the improvement has a rapid onset from the first dose. I actually choose not to treat it in myself for a long time because I had already suffered thru schooling and it was not until a life event stacked so much responsibility in top of me that I imploded to the point where I could not put one foot in front of the other that I decided to actively treat it. Immediately I look back at all the struggles I had especially in schooling and realized I choose the hard path. So while I agree that we are over-drugging boys, I agree ADD/ADHD is over diagnosed and I agree that school sucks for all boys even the ones that do not have focus problems. I want to lend my voice to caution about rejecting medicating those that do have a legitimate disorder as looking back I realize I did myself a disservice by rejecting being drugged.