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ADHD: The Profitable Myth Destroying Our Children

by Ram ben Ze'ev


ADHD: The Profitable Myth Destroying Our Children
ADHD: The Profitable Myth Destroying Our Children

There is no epidemic of attention deficit. There is no neurological plague sweeping across schoolyards. What we have is an epidemic of bad parenting, lazy medicine, and pharmaceutical greed — all of which have converged under the convenient, lucrative label of “ADHD.”


Let us be clear: ADHD is not a disease. It is a fabrication — a profitable invention — designed to medicalise childhood and pathologise normal, often preventable behaviour. Children labelled with ADHD are not broken. They are overstimulated, underparented, and starved of structure and purpose.



A Manufactured Disorder

This so-called disorder did not exist until it became profitable to “diagnose.” The moment pharmaceutical companies developed drugs like Ritalin and Adderall, the number of “ADHD cases” began to soar — not because a medical breakthrough had uncovered a hidden ailment, but because a market had been created. That market has since exploded into billions in annual revenue, driven by doctors who write prescriptions like candy and by schools that would rather medicate a student than discipline or inspire them.


And the result? A generation of drug-dependent children, raised to believe that their restlessness, their creativity, their need to move and explore, are symptoms of disease — not signs of life.



The Real Cause: Bad Parenting and Lazy Living

Let’s stop tiptoeing around the truth. Children are not suffering from ADHD — they are suffering from absentee parenting, excessive screen exposure, processed food, and a complete lack of boundaries.


You don’t need a doctorate to understand this: a child who spends eight hours a day with a screen, another three on a gaming console, and the rest of their time avoiding fresh air, books, exercise, or responsibility, will inevitably display signs of dysfunction. But that dysfunction is not a medical condition. It’s a reflection of the home, not the child.


Where are the parents? Where is the insistence on sunlight, bicycle rides, chores, and reading? When did we stop raising children and start outsourcing their behaviour to pharmaceutical reps?


Young Adults and the Badge of Relevance

It doesn’t stop with children. An increasing number of young adults now proudly announce their ADHD diagnosis like it’s a social badge — proof of uniqueness, a reason to be accommodated, a shield from responsibility.


This is not resilience. It’s collapse. It’s a society in decline, where weakness is worn as virtue and effort is avoided at all costs.


Instead of confronting the discomfort of growth and discipline, they seek validation through labels. It is easier, after all, to say “I have ADHD” than to say “I never learned how to focus because I wasn’t taught to.” It’s easier to take a pill than to take responsibility.



Doctors and the Prescription Culture

Doctors, who ought to know better, are the high priests of this cult. They don’t prescribe solutions — they prescribe sedation. They don’t suggest fewer screens, more exercise, or the removal of sugar and digital chaos from a child’s life. No. They reach for their prescription pad. Why? Because it pays. Because every diagnosis adds to their income and to the profit margins of the pharmaceutical industry they serve.


In doing so, they are not healing our youth — they are weakening them. They are cultivating dependency, breeding fragility, and ensuring that the next generation is less able to cope, less capable of self-mastery, and more reliant on chemicals to function.


Reclaiming Our Children

This madness must stop. We do not need more diagnoses. We need more discipline. We need parenting, not pills. We need books instead of tablets, sunshine instead of sedation, bicycles instead of consoles.


Childhood is not a disease. It is a season of boundless energy and formative struggle. To drug it out of our children is not only a mistake — it is a crime.


It’s time to reject the ADHD racket. Let us raise children again — not label them.


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