ADHD Medication Essay

When I think of medication, I think of medication being used to cure symptoms that face a crucial threat on the human immune system. When I think of people with ADHD, depression or anxiety disorders being medicated, it confuses me. I believe there is an enormous amount of over medicating happening. I feel as if children are not getting the proper care they need for helping with these diagnosis’s, as if medication is the easy way out. If you really stop and think about it, it’s frightening and disappointing. However, there may be some cases that are very severe and they have been through all of the other possible directions to receive help and it didn’t work. Therefore, they need the medication. That is a completely different form of medicating.

That is beyond lubricious to me. Toddlers are beginning to explore and come to concept of what the world is and what they are doing in it. To medicate toddlers for any of the above diagnosis is crazy to me. Another issue that I believe more children are facing in present day is the lack of physical development they are getting. There is a specific state, I can’t think of which one off the top of my head, that is building their elementary schools without playgrounds so the children can better focus on academics. Therefore, the children are not receiving the amount of physical activity their body needs. “What physicians once called attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), often now elicits a diagnosis of childhood bipolar disorder, leading to a 40-fold increase in prevalence from 1994-1995 to 2002-2003.” (Insel) I don’t think people are understanding the need children have to use their bodies and move them. When we are asking children to sit all day and teaching them how to take a test or limiting their range of their body movement, then children are going to cause more chaos and will seem like a child with ADHD, but what if all the changed? What if we were able to allow children more time to use their gross and fine motor other than at a desk or sitting at a