Fucking Ritalin woo-woos!!!

[Odin2005]

Too many idiots who have no clue what ADD and (Autistic) Executive System Dysfunction is like.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

1. It's not surprising

These are the same people that are against vaccines, conventional medicine and science. Most of 'em don't know their asses from a hole in the ground, but still claim to be "expert" in almost everything.

[TZ]

3. Likely the same ones who think

medications for mental illness makes mentally ill people violent...:banghead:

[lazarus]

2. I slammed one early yesterday

I never even looked back to see if there was a response. I said what needed to be said.

[realisticphish]

4. I do think that ADD is overdiagnosed

but that's beside the point

[ZombieHorde]

5. ADD medicine is awesome.

My daughter has benefited greatly from ADD medicine.

[Warpy]

6. They're also the same people who tell depressives to snap out of it

and schizophrenics to stop pretending they see and hear things because the rest of us don't.

They're idiots. Ignore them.

Let me bark at them when I find them.

[realisticphish]

7. seriously?

people think that schizophrenic hallucinations are "pretending?"

[Warpy]

8. Or they say something really helpful like, "Just ignore it."

Most of the time it's along the lines of "it's not really there, so stop telling me it is."

People still by and large feel that mental illness is a moral failure.

[realisticphish]

9. wow

granted, I have a psych degree, but still.

Why can't people understand that schizophrenia, for example, is as much a medical problem as arthritis or diabetes

[Warpy]

10. Dunno

I worked my first psych job when I was 18. I got it within 5 minutes.

[lazarus]

11. moral failure

that's it in a nutshell. My dad finally accepted the idea that my daughter and I might need meds, but he thinks it's like penicillin: Just take some for a while and you'll be all better and can stop taking it. :eyes:

[SDuderstadt]

12. Ruff! n/t

[TZ]

13. Let's not forget the idiots

Who think mental illness is caused by the meds! I get sick after everytime a mass shooting happens and the woos insist the meds made them do it! Aaaaagh!

[beam me up scottie]

14. Sure they do.

Just look at all the great information provided by the Anti-science/Alternative Med Quack industry on teh internets...:banghead: