Is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) an Actual Disease?
What may be happening in a child’s brain to cause them to be affixed with this label? First of all, let’s eliminate any misperceptions that ADD or ADHD is an actual disease. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder has never been proven as a disease, even after 25 years of research. No abnormality or dysfunction has ever been found in the brain, and there is no concrete medical disorder or disease. According to Rita Kirsch Debroitner, R-CSW and Avery Hart, MA in the book Moving Beyond ADD/ADHD – An Effective Holistic Mind/Body Approach, “saying that someone has ADD, with or without hyperactivity, is like saying a person has RND, Runny Nose Disorder, with or without fever.” ADD or ADHD are labels that mental health and primary care physicians have used to describe a situation that they see frequently. The labels give them a way to talk about it and provide a simplistic explanation for an extensive array of “problem” behaviors that are likely to have an equally wide range of different an
