The month of October is ADHD Awareness month which is a good time to reflect on those children lost who were on psychiatric medication for ADHD.
The psychiatric label Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has never been scientifically proven, yet dangerous psychiatric drugs continue to be prescribed for the so-called condition.
And despite the psychiatric propaganda, the link between the use of psychiatric drugs and suicide continues to strengthen.
It’s therefore desperately sad to read of a schoolboy, who, having been labeled with the manufactured ‘disorder’ took his own life while on ADHD drugs.
In 2018 one casualty reported in the media was twelve-year-old Connor Robertson. He was reportedly on ADHD drugs when he hanged himself at his home in Birmingham last October.
Whatever was going on in that young child’s life, the use of a psychiatric drug to chemically restrain him was so wrong. There’s also the matter of informed consent. Were his parents given all of the information about the dangers of the drugs in order that they could make a fully informed choice?
The psychiatric industry, supported by drug companies, has been desperate to come up with a plausible explanation about the intimate workings and chemical exchanges in a child’s brain to justify using psychiatric drugs. The idea of the ‘chemical imbalance’ was born, a scientific-sounding theory that hoodwinked parents into believing it was the cause of their child’s problems. It was also used to convince parents that their children needed mind-altering drugs.
In 2000, 269,000 prescription items for ADHD drugs were dispensed in England. That figure had risen to 1.3 million in 2016, costing the taxpayer £59.3 million. That may be good business, but its bad medicine.
Connor isn’t the first young person to take his own life while on ADHD drugs. In 2010, ten-year-old Harry Hucknall hanged himself at his home after being prescribed an ADHD drug and an antidepressant. Then in August 2013, a nine-year-old boy who was on drugs for ADHD hung himself at his home in Billingham in the northeast of England.
While life can be full of problems that can sometimes be overwhelming, it’s important to know that psychiatry, its diagnoses and its drugs are the wrong way to go. Contrary to psychiatric opinion, children are not experimental animals. They are human beings who have every right to expect protection, care, love and the chance to reach their full potential in life.
There are other options. Alternative ways of helping those suffering from mental disturbance are buried by the marketing hype that “mental illness” is the result of some neurobiological dysfunction or chemical imbalance that can only be corrected with psychotropic drugs. For more information on the alternatives to psychotropic drugs download this article.
