I have been working with a few children who have been told
to take ritalin. (This is a drug
used to treat ADD/ADHD and is been ‘offered’ as an almost standard treatment in many
schools all over the world). The homoeopathic work has been successful,
none of the children who I have worked with takes ritalin anymore and most have
not had to take any at all. I have mainly used constitutional remedies, diet
changes and any form of artistic expression.
A woman, who has made huge changes over the short period of
time of working with me, was talking to me about children and parents at her
children’s school. 'The children on
ritalin are all skinny' she mentioned (one of the side affects of an
amphetamine-like prescription: you do not get hungry) 'and the parents seem to
be very happy that their children are sitting still, being quiet, paying
attention in and out of school'.
Now this causes huge problems in my brain: children are not
by nature, quiet, still nor do they want to sit for hours at a desk without
time to play and explore. Also, if we subject our children to mind/emotion
altering drugs at such a young age how will they deal with their mind/emotions
in the future? Are we not creating a (more) drug dependant society? The long term
picture is not pretty. A world of people out of touch with themselves. I
suppose it is helpful to have a drug dependant society: so much easier to control.
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