A Million Kids Misdiagnosed with ADHD?

Jamie was one of several people who submitted links to a story proclaiming that as many as a million kids were misdiagnosed with ADHD simply for being the youngest and therefore least mature in their classes. Worse still, I wonder how many of those kids are permanently put on drugs.

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Re:Medical corruption

[PopeRatzo]

3 years later I passed all the tests to join the Intelligence Core in the British Army but failed the medical because I had apparently previously been diagnosed with depression.

Well, to be fair, you weren't intelligent enough to walk out of the doctor's office and seek a second opinion or at least learn a little bit about it before taking venlafaxine for months. Maybe it wasn't so much that you were treated for depression but rather that you were so quick to listen to a doctor handing out Effexor.