I love these articles you post. :)

Glad to be of service. :)

it just seems to me that if the kid isn't cooperating, THEY SHOULD ALL BACK THE HELL OFF and try something that the kid might actually accept.

Otherwise, it's child abuse,with potentially more long-lasting negative effects (such as despair, resentment, and helplessness on the part of the child) than the original disorder.

That is all.

From the first article:

The aim of the conspiracy is to convince us that it’s all in our heads, or, specifically, in our brains—that our unhappiness is a chemical problem, not an existential one.

I think I said in another thread that I really do recognize the problems inherent to the US system of drug discovery, marketing, and profiteering. But I am the daughter of a man who is legitimately sick with a syndrome that has no agreed-upon physical or mental "causes", just lots and lots of symptoms. One of those symptoms is depression and muscle aches, and Prozac makes it better. Quantitatively. If the placebo effect helps him get up in the morning and fall asleep at night and live in between, then hurrah for the placebo effect.

Greenberg just comes off as kind of an extremist douche.

it just seems to me that if the kid isn't cooperating, THEY SHOULD ALL BACK THE HELL OFF and try something that the kid might actually accept.

I actually knew a kid who was sort of at the forefront of ADHD diagnoses back in the mid-90s. He hated the way he felt on Ritalin, so his parents agreed to let him stop taking it and accommodated his ADHD in other ways - mostly with homeschooling (where he could set his own schedule and get lots of physical activity) and when he got older with tutoring and specialized behavioral techniques - what Greenberg might call "a method of indoctrination into the pieties of American" hard work.