I'm not sure about the explosion in ADD diagnoses. In some ways it is just the typical modern reaction to being overwhelmed (give me a pill). Don't get me wrong, there are certainly people who need help but a lot of these ADD specialists see ADD everywhere and the treatment is reinforcing it.
Case in point. I talked to someone because I was falling behind at work who recommended a specialist. They gave me a prescription. Guess what? I got more work done. Of course I did. I was on speed. Baseball players take it to work harder. Is it because they are all ADD or is it that it simply makes you concentrate harder and apply yourself more? It did improve my work so the specialist now assumes that I have ADD since the ADD treatment helped my "problem". Now, in my way of thinking, most everyone's work output would improve on amphetamines. That's why it is called speed.
My conspiratorial mind also notes that the medicine would cost over $500.00 a month if I didn't have a prescription plan. Someone is making a killing on the increased diagnoses of ADD.
Gone the carvings and those who left their mark. Gone the kings and queens, now only the rats hold sway.
