Re: alleged “alternatives” for ADHD

[Anonymous]

No. I’m entirely a layperson. I was a teacher, I now work in car and property insurance. Don’t have a single doctor, nurse, pharmaceutical rep, or pharmacist in my family either.

Once I did something “alternative”. Some idiot told me st. john’s wort was helpful for depression. Worst 6 months of my life. It didn’t do a damned thing for me. Waste of money and time, and because I was so damned miserable, I ended up not speaking to my sister for three years because I said something stupid to her while depressed and she cut me out of her life. We reconciled, thank goodness.

One of my best friends from childhood was treated for depression successfully for about 10 years going on from the start of high school. Then some quack told her she didn’t need therapy or pharmaceuticals, she needing “healing” and some herbal remedies.

She killed herself about 6 months after discontinuing her normal medication. There are real-world consequences to people pitching woo-woo nonsense. I might still have my friend if she had known then what I know about complementary/alternative medicine.

I AM NOT interested in pursuing alternatives. If you paid close attention I was giving that doctor in Ontario hell for peddling CD’s discussing “alternate” therapies. You’ll notice both in the original post and here “alternate” is in quotes, because I think that’s just a nice cover word for “crap that doesn’t work”.

What this thread was originally about is how does an Ontario licensed medical doctor justify making money off discussing “alternative” therapies that according to the normal medical community are completely worthless and worse, may even do harm?

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