Dear Dr. Baughman. I am writing to commend your excellent work in exposing dangers of this horrible fraud (ADHD) and the dangers of ritalin. …

[Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD:
*****, thank you for writing of your victimization. See with comments below.]

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  From: "*****
  Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 11:52 AM
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    Dear Dr. Baughman.
    I am writing to commend your excellent work in exposing dangers of this
    horrible fraud (ADHD)  and the dangers of ritalin.
    I am 32 years old and have a masters degree from a internationally respected
    California university, however as a child a was considered a "problem
    child"... I wouldnt pay attention in class (bored to death), wouldnt do my
    homework (I saw no need to do a math problem 100+ times to "prove" that I
    knew how to do it...) and frequently argued with teachers (and more often
    then not, showed up the next day with a college level book checked out from
    the local library to prove I was right and they were wrong...they hated
    that). 

[Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD:
their only recourse, confronted with a superior with no
right--in their eyes--to be superior--was to diminish you by psychiatric
diagnosis topped with an always-brain-damaging drugs]

    Needless to say, I was diagnosed with ADHD.
    From the 2nd grade until my junior year in highschool I was put on ever
    increasing dosages of Ritalin (the last few years my dosage was 35mg of
    "long lasting" Ritalin 4 times a day) (I've been told that thats "alot")
    I finally removed myself from medication simply by pretending to take the
    pills and after several months presenting my parents with a ziplock bag
    filled with hundreds of pills and told them I hadnt been taking them and
    pointed out that there hadnt been a noticable increase in my "bad  behavior"
    (not to say I was a saint...just that it hadnt gotten worse). 

[Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD:
I
salute you.]

   
    It was during my second year as a undergraduate at Ohio State that I took a
    IQ test that one of my dorm mates was administering for a class project that
    I finally learned the truth... according to the tests, my IQ was 186...
  

[Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD:
I urge one and all not to fall into the IQ trap, a fraud and a
deception whether 2 digits, or 3 and whether inferior or superior. Think
how ludicrous, a statement of all "human potential" in 2 or 3 digits. See
the Mismeasure of Man by the late, great Stephen Jay Gould]

    looking back with 20/20 hindsight, its no wonder that I thought school was
    boring and that my teachers were idiots...
    But instead of being put into a "gifted" set of classes, the schools and the
    doctors medicated me until I was "normal" (what a ugly word).
   
    Now I have to live the with aftermath of all those years of unnecessary
    medication...
   
    The most pronounced side effect that I have (and this is more then  slightly
    embarrasing...) is the inability to acheive climax with a partner...the
    erection is there...just no "fireworks" at the end...
    (this, in fact was what prompted me to stop using ritalin in the first
    place...)
    This has cost me more relationships then I can count because the women I've
    dated end up taking it personally that they cannot "get me off".(even though
    I explain up front about the ritalin)
   
    I can only hope that you can prevent others from going through what I've had
    to go through...

[Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD:
thank you for writing my friend and instructing us
all of this horror-in-a-democracy that follows psychiatry-the-cult as it's
god. God help the parents and adults of the nation as they force this on
their normal, innocent, helpless children]