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Does anyone ever wonder if the professionals REALLY know what is wrong with our kids?
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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 530289" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>I think the main problem is, that we still know so very little. Especially then it gets to how our brain function. We still basically know as much as our ancestors knew 5000 years ago. If you hit someone too hard to the head, their brains stop working. Okay, maybe little bit more but not that much. In fact we don't know much about many physical illnesses and whys and hows then it comes to them. And even less is known about why some drugs seem to be working to some illnesses and conditions. And when it comes to neurological and psychiatric problems it is basically in very large part just guessing and making categories. In those fields most diagnosis are based on behaviour. And often the behaviours is very similar in many totally different condition. And even more so with kids. And smaller the kid is, more difficult it is to know. They just react exactly the same way to many different things.</p><p></p><p>Ans as Keista already pointed out the information the professionals do get about the patient is incomplete and subjective at best. And sometimes it depends on circumstances. It would be very odd if for example boys who have born near the school cut off age do indeed have more ADHD than boys who are older then they start school. Especially then this seems to be true whatever month the cut off is, so it is not because of seasons. Still they do have much more diagnoses.</p><p></p><p>I kind of hope it would be possible to get kids help for what they seem to need, not for what their diagnose seems to be. If it seems like the kid needs help with this or that, they should get that despite any diagnose or none. It is also often with drugs, that they are more to help for certain symptom than certain condition. And maybe at times that should be enough. Of course there are also conditions that have that special drug for just that condition and then you of course need that diagnose. </p><p></p><p>Problem with all those diagnoses is also that it can easily become a self-fulfilling prophesy like these things tend to do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 530289, member: 14557"] I think the main problem is, that we still know so very little. Especially then it gets to how our brain function. We still basically know as much as our ancestors knew 5000 years ago. If you hit someone too hard to the head, their brains stop working. Okay, maybe little bit more but not that much. In fact we don't know much about many physical illnesses and whys and hows then it comes to them. And even less is known about why some drugs seem to be working to some illnesses and conditions. And when it comes to neurological and psychiatric problems it is basically in very large part just guessing and making categories. In those fields most diagnosis are based on behaviour. And often the behaviours is very similar in many totally different condition. And even more so with kids. And smaller the kid is, more difficult it is to know. They just react exactly the same way to many different things. Ans as Keista already pointed out the information the professionals do get about the patient is incomplete and subjective at best. And sometimes it depends on circumstances. It would be very odd if for example boys who have born near the school cut off age do indeed have more ADHD than boys who are older then they start school. Especially then this seems to be true whatever month the cut off is, so it is not because of seasons. Still they do have much more diagnoses. I kind of hope it would be possible to get kids help for what they seem to need, not for what their diagnose seems to be. If it seems like the kid needs help with this or that, they should get that despite any diagnose or none. It is also often with drugs, that they are more to help for certain symptom than certain condition. And maybe at times that should be enough. Of course there are also conditions that have that special drug for just that condition and then you of course need that diagnose. Problem with all those diagnoses is also that it can easily become a self-fulfilling prophesy like these things tend to do. [/QUOTE]
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