Americans take that to mean he was threatening to kill us,
I wonder if they put all undertakers in jail, then. Heck, "We will bury you!" would make a good advertising slogan. Especially in todays times, where there's been a case or two of undertakers stockpiling corpses in their basement instead of actually burying them.
If the people of N. Korea didn't approve of their government, one would see demonstrations, if not coup d'état attempts. This, however, is nowhere to be seen.
Random question: How would you "see" what's going on in a completely isolated country that basically completely controls all news?
and moral if you believe it is wrong to secretly put highly addictive substances into food.
If they were really intentionally putting traces of highly addictive substances into food, they'd be using stuff that's a) much more physically addictive than cocaine and b) much less problematic legally, like, um, nicotine.
Besides, people who think that decocainated coca leaf extracts contains zero cocaine probably also believe that decaffeinated coffee contains zero caffeine.
It's fine if you want to use a drug to make life more bearable, just don't kid yourself by hiding behind the "it's an illness" banner.
A condition that interferes with a persons functioning in everyday life can be labeled a disorder without any problems. In fact, that's pretty much the separating line between a personality trait and a disorder.
Besides, ADHD has been described in psychiatry for over a century. Its existence is hardly news. If you have really good arguments to the contrary, I'm looking forward to finding some of your journal articles on pubmed.
Well what about the people with those same symptoms who don't have ADHD?
ADHD and various other conditions (e.g. certain forms of autism, oppositional-defiant disorder, bipolar disorder, hearing problems, brain tumors) have symptoms in common, so those people should be evaluated for those conditions (in fact, ADHD is diagnosed only after these conditions have been excluded - if it turns out that someone was diagnosed with ADHD but did in fact have not have ADHD, it's a sign that the doctor overlooked something. If there's a concentration of such cases for certain doctors, maybe it's time to look at their licenses again. Doctors aren't going to like that, really.)
ADHD exists, it's just that it exists in theory to be pulled out whenever a pharmaceutical company has need of increased revenues.
Durr. Really. ADHD is treated with fscking cheap generic stuff. There's no big money to be made with making it, especially not for big pharma, since the patents on it have expired fscking decades ago, if they ever existed. You might as well say that headaches are a a theory that's pulled out whenever a pharmaceutical company needs to sell more aspirin, it's just as silly.
Sounds like a healthy kid. Running around playing,
The problem is, he's not playing _with_ other kids. He loses interest in group activities almost instantly and then runs off to do things on his own (throw rocks, play with dirt, flip light switches, open drawers, try to climb the fence, etc). He also has a hard time sitting still for group activities (singing, playing games) - he loves music and will sit still while a song is being song, but will run off as soon as the song is finished.
I wonder why this ADHD problem seems to only appear in the US...?
It's the same problem everywhere. The problem in the US is that it's massively overdiagnosed (90% of the produced methylphenidate is consumed in the US).
ADHD isn't new. It's been known under various names as a psychiatric disorder for over a century.
Did you child have ADHD when you first placed him in front of the TV at 6 months old to watch the flashing colors and fast paced images to his newly developing brain? No?
In fact, after reading up on ADHD symptoms in infancy, I can say yes, he was pretty much showing the symptoms from the minute he was born. He must have gotten it from the one brief look at the patient monitors screen in the delivery room, right?
Yeah, the fact that you want to just drop your kid in front of the TV makes you out to seem like an amazing parent.
Yes, great, you may be able to spend 12 hours without a bathroom break, but I for sure don't. And right now, taking that break means a high chance of having to do damage control (highly annoying and time-consuming) and mete out punishment (highly unpleasant for everyone involved and entirely without effect) afterwards.
That may be news to you, but parents need breaks, too. With a kid with ADHD, you only get a break when the kid is asleep. Not getting the breaks you need won't make you a good parent. In fact, it'll turn you into a horrible parent over time.
But trollingly, if most parents in Hungary would 'beat the shit out of' another human in response to that person's suggestion, you guys need some serious stress relief.
No, they don't have violent psychopaths there. They have something similar, which they call "marginally civilized behavior".
Err.. no. Those two are completely separate disorders. And kids can have either, or even both.
Hell, the lack of attention in most of them is entirely because the parents plop them down in front of the TV.
I have a kid with ADHD, and believe me, I'd be more than happy if I could just "plop him down in front of the TV" for a minute. But he doesn't watch TV. None. Zero. Zip. Nada. Because that would mean he'd actually have to sit on the couch for more than 30 seconds. Instead, he'll sit down for 29 seconds (at most), and then jump up to either play with the remote, the buttons on the TV set, the radio or the books on the shelves, or climb on the window sill, or run to the bedroom to jump on the bed, or climb in his sisters crib, or just run outside. _Anything_ other than sitting still and watching TV.
Fun fact: Hungary does not recognize the thing you're trying to treat. It simply does not exist here.
I see that even after the fall of communism, it's long-standing tradition of denying reality is still alive and well.
Although we do have something similar, we call that boredom, and it's not a disease.
Oh, yeah. You probaly don't have paraplegia, either, but something similar, which you call laziness? And no blindness and muteness either, but something similar, which you call stupidity? Right.
It is frustrating that anyone, anywhere, thinks that ADD is about attention, or that it's a deficit of anything, or that it's a disorder.
They should (once again) rename it - to "attention control disorder". People with ADHD have plenty of attention (not more or less that people without it), they have difficulty controlling what they focus their attention on.
Thanks for clearing that up. Drowning is actually "water poisoning". Roger.
No, it's poisoning by too little oxygen. The original quote doesn't say anything about a "high enough" dose, it just says that the dose makes the poison.
You're missing one thing: Assuming legalization, you're neighbours meth lab probably would be closed down even earlier for not properly following hazmat safety regulations.
Why bother with registering your lab when you can still run an illegal one on the cheap and undercut the competition?
"junkies" exist now because there is not enough readily available and unbiased information out there for people to make an informed decision about these substances.
Err... any pharmacy textbook will do. I'm sure your local library can get one if you ask. However, in the US, this also might invite black vans and other unpleasantries.
I'd assume there's plenty of firmware (i.e. code) in these things, managing the user interface (even if it's just a handful of buttons), exposure times, etc.
Basically 1/ ensures that *every single reading it produces is wrong* (except in some very special cases like the readings all being identical.
Buggy enough for you?
No. Whether there's a significant difference depends on the analog hardware (i.e. the noise characteristics of the A/D converter and the analog circuitry surrounding it) of the device.
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I wonder if they put all undertakers in jail, then. Heck, "We will bury you!" would make a good advertising slogan. Especially in todays times, where there's been a case or two of undertakers stockpiling corpses in their basement instead of actually burying them.
Random question: How would you "see" what's going on in a completely isolated country that basically completely controls all news?
This isn't East Germany, Hungary, or China.
If they were really intentionally putting traces of highly addictive substances into food, they'd be using stuff that's a) much more physically addictive than cocaine and b) much less problematic legally, like, um, nicotine.
Besides, people who think that decocainated coca leaf extracts contains zero cocaine probably also believe that decaffeinated coffee contains zero caffeine.
A condition that interferes with a persons functioning in everyday life can be labeled a disorder without any problems. In fact, that's pretty much the separating line between a personality trait and a disorder.
Besides, ADHD has been described in psychiatry for over a century. Its existence is hardly news. If you have really good arguments to the contrary, I'm looking forward to finding some of your journal articles on pubmed.
Huh? There are enough people out there claiming that you can. Just use google.
You can with ADHD.
No. If you can "snap out of it" in a controlled fashion, then you probably don't have ADHD. Or a only very mild case.
ADHD and various other conditions (e.g. certain forms of autism, oppositional-defiant disorder, bipolar disorder, hearing problems, brain tumors) have symptoms in common, so those people should be evaluated for those conditions (in fact, ADHD is diagnosed only after these conditions have been excluded - if it turns out that someone was diagnosed with ADHD but did in fact have not have ADHD, it's a sign that the doctor overlooked something. If there's a concentration of such cases for certain doctors, maybe it's time to look at their licenses again. Doctors aren't going to like that, really.)
ADHD exists, it's just that it exists in theory to be pulled out whenever a pharmaceutical company has need of increased revenues.
Durr. Really. ADHD is treated with fscking cheap generic stuff. There's no big money to be made with making it, especially not for big pharma, since the patents on it have expired fscking decades ago, if they ever existed. You might as well say that headaches are a a theory that's pulled out whenever a pharmaceutical company needs to sell more aspirin, it's just as silly.
The problem is, he's not playing _with_ other kids. He loses interest in group activities almost instantly and then runs off to do things on his own (throw rocks, play with dirt, flip light switches, open drawers, try to climb the fence, etc). He also has a hard time sitting still for group activities (singing, playing games) - he loves music and will sit still while a song is being song, but will run off as soon as the song is finished.
I wonder why this ADHD problem seems to only appear in the US...?
It's the same problem everywhere. The problem in the US is that it's massively overdiagnosed (90% of the produced methylphenidate is consumed in the US).
ADHD isn't new. It's been known under various names as a psychiatric disorder for over a century.
In fact, after reading up on ADHD symptoms in infancy, I can say yes, he was pretty much showing the symptoms from the minute he was born. He must have gotten it from the one brief look at the patient monitors screen in the delivery room, right?
Yeah, the fact that you want to just drop your kid in front of the TV makes you out to seem like an amazing parent.
Yes, great, you may be able to spend 12 hours without a bathroom break, but I for sure don't. And right now, taking that break means a high chance of having to do damage control (highly annoying and time-consuming) and mete out punishment (highly unpleasant for everyone involved and entirely without effect) afterwards.
That may be news to you, but parents need breaks, too. With a kid with ADHD, you only get a break when the kid is asleep. Not getting the breaks you need won't make you a good parent. In fact, it'll turn you into a horrible parent over time.
No, they don't have violent psychopaths there. They have something similar, which they call "marginally civilized behavior".
ADHD is the aspergers of children.
Err .. no. Those two are completely separate disorders. And kids can have either, or even both.
Hell, the lack of attention in most of them is entirely because the parents plop them down in front of the TV.
I have a kid with ADHD, and believe me, I'd be more than happy if I could just "plop him down in front of the TV" for a minute. But he doesn't watch TV. None. Zero. Zip. Nada. Because that would mean he'd actually have to sit on the couch for more than 30 seconds. Instead, he'll sit down for 29 seconds (at most), and then jump up to either play with the remote, the buttons on the TV set, the radio or the books on the shelves, or climb on the window sill, or run to the bedroom to jump on the bed, or climb in his sisters crib, or just run outside. _Anything_ other than sitting still and watching TV.
"Sugar buzz" is a myth. If your blood sugar regulation is working correctly, sugar will make you tired, if anything.
I see that even after the fall of communism, it's long-standing tradition of denying reality is still alive and well.
Although we do have something similar, we call that boredom, and it's not a disease.
Oh, yeah. You probaly don't have paraplegia, either, but something similar, which you call laziness? And no blindness and muteness either, but something similar, which you call stupidity? Right.
It is frustrating that anyone, anywhere, thinks that ADD is about attention, or that it's a deficit of anything, or that it's a disorder.
They should (once again) rename it - to "attention control disorder". People with ADHD have plenty of attention (not more or less that people without it), they have difficulty controlling what they focus their attention on.
No, it's poisoning by too little oxygen. The original quote doesn't say anything about a "high enough" dose, it just says that the dose makes the poison.
Maybe because it's even cheaper to make his own, illegally?
Never heard of loitering, and laws prohibiting it? You must not be from the US, then.
Why bother with registering your lab when you can still run an illegal one on the cheap and undercut the competition?
Err ... any pharmacy textbook will do. I'm sure your local library can get one if you ask. However, in the US, this also might invite black vans and other unpleasantries.
Rockstar Games and a few other companies probably beat you to the punch there.
Drop a convential bomb on him.
Judging from past attempts with different targets, those two points are harder than they sound.
Good morning! Where have you been the last couple of years? Your list is at least two countries short!
Err, are you sure? (e.g. did you design one?).
I'd assume there's plenty of firmware (i.e. code) in these things, managing the user interface (even if it's just a handful of buttons), exposure times, etc.
Oh, and grammar, because the word "color" is discriminating to the colourful British.
I don't think outlawing grammar would help any. Outlawing spelling, however, would.
No. Whether there's a significant difference depends on the analog hardware (i.e. the noise characteristics of the A/D converter and the analog circuitry surrounding it) of the device.