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ADD/ADHD Misdiagnosis: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder often mistaken for ADHD

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I have often written about the huge problem of ADD/ADHD misdiagnosis. This problem makes me think of the old proverb that says: “If you only have a hammer everything looks like a nail!” Modern medicine have become so preoccupied with sticking the ADD label on kids that it is very often the first diagnosis that [...]

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ADD/ADHD Drugs and the Placebo Effect: Shocking New Research

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We are all familiar with the so-called ‘placebo effect’. This is where someone begins to feel significantly better after receiving ‘fake’ medication (usually a sugar pill or a tablet with no active pharmacological ingredients). The existence of the placebo effect amply demonstrates that the belief that a condition is being treated can sometimes be as [...]

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Audio: Gifted or ADHD? (ADHD Misdiagnosis 2)

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Trouble in the bloodstream? (ADHD Misdiagnoses 4)

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In our look, over the past few weeks, at the problem of ADD/ADHD misdiagnosis we came across some possible causes that seemed very straightforward and logical when you stop to think about them. I suppose most intelligent people would be able to come up with the hypothesis that giftedness or lack of sleep could cause [...]

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Lack of Sleep Possible (ADHD Misdiagnosis 3)

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Over the past few weeks we had a look at the very real problem of ADD/ADHD misdiagnosis. The bottom line of much of that was said is that it is very important to research alternative explanations for ‘ADD like symptoms’ before meekly accepting a diagnosis. This is because it is, sadly, often the case that [...]

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