The Never-Ending Wonderland Of ADHD

ADHD is a Fake Diagnosis

The media is ablaze with the news that research scientists have finally admitted what yours truly has been saying for more than thirty years—ADHD, (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) is a fake, pseudo-scientific diagnosis lacking even a shred of medical or scientific validity and EVERYTHING psychologists and psychiatrists have claimed about it is false.

Let me be perfectly clear: The mental health professional community has known all along—since the 1970s—that what they were telling the public about ADHD was fiction; therefore, they were not simply mistaken. They were lying through their teeth, making stuff up. The nefarious purpose of their prevaricating was to sustain the cash flow the diagnosis was generating, which was unprecedented in the history of the profession.

The Grifters of Mental Health told people that the defining symptoms of ADHD were due to something they called “brain differences.” A lie. The brain differences some researchers claimed they were detecting were probably the RESULT of the symptoms, not the cause (if they ever truly existed, that is). They told people that the defining symptoms were due to an imbalance of chemicals in the nervous system. A lie. No one has ever quantified a state of chemical balance in the nervous system; therefore, there is no way of proving an imbalance. They said ADHD was caused by genes. A lie. If the victim was a child, his father, after being asked three or four questions, including, “Did you sometimes have problems paying attention in school?” to which every male will answer in the affirmative, was fingered as the carrier of the ADHD gene and told he had “adult ADHD.” That lie protected the self-esteem of the mother, who is nearly always the parent who made the appointment. (Psychologists all know that if they so much as suggest that the mother had anything to do with her child’s undisciplined behavior, the cash flow from that set of victims will cease.)

One lie after another, all for the purpose of obtaining victims of fake treatments, the most common of which were pharmaceuticals that have never reliably outperformed placebos in controlled clinical studies. You did know, didn’t you, that if held to the standards to which drugs designed to treat verifiable diseases are held, no psychiatric drug would ever obtain FDA approval? Yeah, sorry to tell you, whoever you are, if you’re taking a psychiatric drug, you might as well be taking Gas-X.

The most common victims of the ADHD scam were children, who are unable to give informed consent for treatment. The drugs prescribed for ADHD are various iterations of “speed,” so the claim that they are harmless is yet another lie.

And on and on it goes. BUT HERE’S THE GOOD NEWS! If you or your child was ever diagnosed as “having” (it is impossible have something that does not exist) ADHD, I strongly recommend that you contact the meanest attorney you can find (make sure he drives a top-of-the-line Mercedes and belongs to the toniest country club within fifty miles) to see if you have sufficient reason to take action (i.e., sue) against the diagnosing professional for deceptive business practices. Hey! You might also be able to sue his licensing board for allowing him to practice in the first place and/or failing to provide him with sufficient oversight.

For more on the subject of ADHD, consider reading The Diseasing of America’s Children by yours truly and nationally-known pediatrician Bose Ravenel. It is good. You will like it. I promise.

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Copyright 2025, John K. Rosemond