From: footballjds
I believe, and unless I have a first hand experience showing me otherwise, will ALWAYS believe that half of the things doctors diagnose you with are COMPLETE BULLSHIT.
Like ADD or ADHD. Who the fuck wants to pay attention in school. NO ONE.
Don't drug the kid… I had the WORST attention deficit disorder EVER(Ask my teacher, fuck I didn't do ANY{seriously, none. In my state the legal age you MUST start school is 8} school till i was 9 ALMOST 10)…
I found my own way of learning and got accepted to college 2 months after i turned 14…
Nowhere did I say he should be prescribed anything by a doctor, not that he shouldn't.
ADHD (ADD isn't a thing)
is a real medical condition. It's just misdiagnosed like mad because so many kids want drugs for free/cheap, and it's a relatively nice drug to enjoy recreationally.
School is stupid, and using it to determine if someone has ADHD/ADHD-PI/whatever is absolute nonsense. I don't care to explain why doctors are so keen on prescribing meds, but it makes complete sense if you know what's going on in the medical world (which I think I can at least partially talk about since I dealt with it for work quite a bit). It's sad, but it's what happens because the world is fucked.
Anyway, offtopic. If a legitimate doctor is to evaluate someone to see if they have a mental illness, you'd have to be a bit of an idiot to not at least listen to them. If you don't trust them, do something logical and get evaluated by more than one doctor.
And just for the record, I dislike most prescription drugs and think almost anything can be treated in a much better way. And doing research and filling yourself with knowledge with what you may be worried about can often help any hallucinations/anxiety, so I'd recommend doing that.
EDIT:
fagex, it's also much more profitable to give them pills.