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Your child may have ADD/ADHD. The good news is professionals have learned that ADD/ADHD is only as medically “serious” as myopia. It’s treatment is as nearly straightforward as vision testing and eyeglasses. Both ADD/ADHD and myopia lead to profoundly negative outcomes if unrecognized and untreated. The difference is, they don’t blame you for not seeing well.
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SHHH-It's a secret
We just don’t want to talk about mental health. At least not in OUR family. Yet it is our leading “SILENT KILLER.” Unfortunately, there has been very little change in the ignorance, stigma and discrimination that has always tainted mental illness. This reality is demonstrated by the fact that, according to Harvard and the Wold Health Organization (WHO-2000), Major Depression, alone, was the single largest cause of disability in the world. The single largest! Despite this fact, Major Depression is exceptionally unrecognized, undiagnosed and untreated. Within any one year period, 10.3% of the U.S. adult population will suffer Major Depression. Of this number, only 50% will be diagnosed and only about 30% of these will receive adequate treatment or any treatment. Suicide – a completely preventable death – robs us of 32,000 Americans each year – it is the 11th leading cause of U.S. deaths.

Psychiatry and Mental Health are changing at the same exponential rate as everything else. Psychiatry is provided a bevy of new drugs each year. Each year also brings more and more research about how therapists can and should conduct therapy so that it will actually work – for example, the use of cognitive – behavioral therapy in the treatment of Major Depression. Researchers have been learning more and more about the major psychiatric diagnoses, permitting “drug-matching” and “therapy-matching” more successfully than ever before. Alternative treatments, such as the use of Omega fatty acids are proving useful as well, at least as augmentation for primary treatments. In short, psychiatric treatments are among the most successful treatments in all medicine, manageable in at least 80% of cases

Despite Harvard, despite WHO, despite common sense, ignorance and discrimination hold sway over the mental disorders. Simply consider the fact that, as recent research has shown, mental illness is the single largest contributor to losses in workplace productivity, or at least within the top ten. It has also been shown that identification and treatment of mental illness at work not only improves lives but also improves the bottom line. 

Our ability to find highly tolerated and highly effective treatments for these conditions have advanced beyond our wildest dreams thirty years ago. Despite this fact, the field (and those who suffer these disorders) continues to suffer from the ignorance and stigma of others and discrimination by others. It’s like we’re in the 1960’s when high blood pressure was called “the Silent Killer.” Now, mental illness is the “Silent Killer.” But no one’s talking.