ADHD in childhood may be linked to obesity in adults

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8. It assumes nothing. ADHD pharmaceutical treatment is based on unfounded assumptions.

ADHD, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, unlike schizophrenia is subjectively diagnosed often based on the testimony of teachers or parents. Often you can perform scans on those displaying schizophrenic tendencies and find concrete abnormalities within brain regions. The same can't be said for ADHD. In the majority of cases diagnosed as ADHD neurotransmitter testing will reveal little difference between those labelled ADHD and those considered healthy. When there are significant differences they are often indicative of existing manic depressive disorder and coincide with symptoms of this disorder, which is not treated with psychostimulants, quite to the contrary psychostimulants will aggravate such a disorder.
There is absolutely no concrete evidence that ADHD exists, if you can find it please do post it. As I said its a theory, as is the method of treatment. No one claims to understand how the drugs work with certainty, neither does anyone claim to know exactly what ADHD is on a biochemical level.
Yes I work with children on a daily basis and am familiar with the research that has been done into pediatric as well as adult neurochemistry, psychology and pharmacology.
There are thousands of doctors in the United States alone who will refuse to write a prescription for a stimulant. Many DO's will simply refer the children to a psychologist, not a psychiatrist, to investigate whether there is evidence of trauma or abuse in the child's history. Many DO's will also order diagnostic tests to determine if there might be thyroid abnormalities, heavy metal toxicity, vitamin deficiencies, hormonal irregularities etc.
I find your comparison to Scientology to be a leap. I have never claimed there is no such thing as mental illness , I simply argue there is a complete lack of objective evidence for the existence of ADHD as well as virtually no understanding or explanation offered for how such blunt effect drugs are supposed to work for adhd.
Something else I feel inclined to mention is that many children who are sent to a psychologist instead of a psychiatrist have been found to have been victims of trauma or abuse. What if instead those children had simply been put on a drug? The trauma and/or abuse may never have been identified. Psychological intervention is often able to help those victims of trauma and/or abuse live full normal lives.