I recently read Talking back to Ritalin, by Peter R Breggin, which tackles the psychiatric illusion that difficult kids are ill and should be prescribed harmful drugs.
When I was a kid at primary school, I was always on the go. I found it difficult to sit still, and I couldn’t concentrate for long. Fortunately, I went to school before the psychiatric community had developed a theory that difficult school kids were ill, and suffering from chemical brain imbalances, which they termed Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and which they could now cure through life-long prescriptions of amphetamine drugs, such as Ritalin.
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