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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
"New Attention Disorder" Spurs Research, Debate
2014-04-14
Article from NYT, aka 'Pravda on the Hudson.
'With more than six million American children having received a diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, concern has been rising that the condition is being significantly misdiagnosed and overtreated with prescription medications.

Yet now some powerful figures in mental health are claiming to have identified a new disorder that could vastly expand the ranks of young people treated for attention problems. Called sluggish cognitive tempo, the condition is said to be characterized by lethargy, daydreaming and slow mental processing. By some researchers' estimates, it is present in perhaps two million children.

Experts pushing for more research into sluggish cognitive tempo say it is gaining momentum toward recognition as a legitimate disorder — and, as such, a candidate for pharmacological treatment. Some of the condition's researchers have helped Eli Lilly investigate how its flagship A.D.H.D. drug might treat it.
Posted by:Pappy

#22  "If you feel you are not properly sedated, call 348-844 immediately. Failure to do so may result in prosecution for criminal drug evasion." from THX 1138.
Posted by: linker   2014-04-14 20:20  

#21  From the DSM IV now to V
Is just a psych docs' shuck and jive
If in doubt what to do
Give a Ritalin or two
And school's now a drugged out bee hive
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2014-04-14 19:36  

#20  Instead, let's just provide free heroin to everyone who wants it?

I mean we own Afghanistan; so, providing it can't cost as much as whatever Eli Lilly is selling.
Posted by: rammer   2014-04-14 19:31  

#19  Two things the education industry just doesn't get;:

1. Some people really are just lazy and stupid.

2. The definition of "boy" is NOT "defective girl".

Any questions?
Posted by: no mo uro   2014-04-14 17:39  

#18  I have not allowed cognitive timing
Or short headspace to mess with my rhyming.
As I chatter away
And the limericks spray,
Their point of impact keeps on climbing.

Or not.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2014-04-14 17:06  

#17  From in back of the nanny state's skirt,
A brave whimper was heard to assert:
Before you say "slug,"
You insensitive thug,
You must issue a trigger alert!
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2014-04-14 17:00  

#16  Thou *shall* conform to the contrived norm for human behavior or thou shall be drugged until you do!
Posted by: CrazyFool   2014-04-14 16:58  

#15  My youngest was diagnosed with ADHD, she was just bored. She would finish school work and tests before everyone elese and was given nothing to stimulate her crave for learning. Ritalin was suggested but I flat-out refused.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2014-04-14 16:01  

#14  Huh?
Posted by: Frank G   2014-04-14 14:45  

#13  Saw this yesterday. If daydreaming was medicated when I was in middle & high school I would have been stoned for life.
Posted by: AlanC   2014-04-14 14:32  

#12  ...sluggish cognitive tempo


I've never let it hold me back.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-04-14 13:51  

#11  I find the term sluggish racist, and perhaps a bit sexist. How about achievable goal of equal results.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2014-04-14 13:06  

#10   sluggish cognitive tempo, New term for an old term. It used to be low levels of mental retardation. Brilliant, on to the Nobel prize with this one...
Posted by: 49 Pan   2014-04-14 12:25  

#9  sluggish cognitive tempo

Slow brains, eh? That could explain all those people voting for Obama a *second* time. Maybe they will eventually catch on.
Posted by: SteveS   2014-04-14 12:08  

#8  It let me in okay, and I'm not a subscriber.

Second, it's the New York Times. Any more than a few paragraphs would get Fred in trouble. I don't want a bottom-feeding lawyer (but I repeat myself) doing a copyright suit.

I apologize for the inconvenience, but I'm not going to post the article verbatim - even in the comments.
Posted by: Pappy   2014-04-14 11:10  

#7  Yet now some powerful figures in mental health are claiming to have identified a new disorder that could vastly expand the ranks of young people treated for attention problems. Called sluggish cognitive tempo, the condition is said to be characterized by lethargy, daydreaming and slow mental processing.

aka - being male (see-Tom Sawyer). It's a disorder from the female standard. A disorder much like hyperactive of the same group whose behavior distracts the matriarchy that dominates and operates the education institution and needs the administration of psychotropic drugs to imbue an environment conducive to their social limitations.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2014-04-14 10:43  

#6  Sounds like they're describing my mental state. And I thought it was the rum.
Posted by: Woozle Creng5249   2014-04-14 09:35  

#5  Let the indoctrination begin.
Posted by: ed in texas   2014-04-14 07:42  

#4  I could not get through the article; what does it say?
Posted by: Airandee   2014-04-14 07:21  

#3  Nonsense Besoeker. If you'd really look, you'd see that it's Harrison Bergeron, not Simon Lagree.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-04-14 05:46  

#2  Diagnosis of schizophrenia, Autistic Disorders, Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar Disorder, and Attention Disorders are all 'tickets to ride' the Social Security disability train.

Welcome to Obamawaziland. No one works here, it wouldn't be fair.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-04-14 05:28  

#1  Wouldn't repealing Common Core (TM-Retarded) make them less sluggish?
Posted by: 3dc   2014-04-14 01:51  

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