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Old 09-23-2006 | 08:13 AM
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I don't agree with you surreal. Ask anybody that's ever spent hours making sure that their carpet fibers were all going in the same direction. In the process basically tearing their fingernails off. My cousin has a severe case and this is something he did.

However, the drug makers do have a vested intrest and I'm sure it's like ADD/HD, overdiagnosed. For every person that really does suffer from these there are probably 3 or 4 on meds that don't need to be. I've had four students in this situation in the last five months. In each case, an overbearing mom decided that because they couldn't sit still at 13 they had to take drugs to get good grades (I still can't sit still at 25). In two cases, they spent a ton on flight lessons only to have to make their kid give it up because the FAA wouldn't issue a medical. The other two have been appealing for months. All because of an over-diagnosis to sell Ritalin.
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