Another kid saved from the system

From the London Daily Mail...

At four, Jake was referred by his GP to a paediatrician at Grantham hospital.

'She told us he had ADHD and OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). Very convenient labels, but I still don't believe they should be controlled by drugs,' says Yvonne.

Despite grave reservations, but exhausted by Jake's behaviour and lack of sleep, she agreed to have him put on dexanphetamin.

'This drug, like Ritalin, works on the chemical balance of the brain and has the effect of calming down a child immediately.

'He took it twice a day and the effect was instant. He was like a zombie....

A year later, under the advice of the paediatrician, Jake was taken off this drug and put onto Ritalin.

'The effect was the same. I moved him from a big state primary into a village school, but they couldn't cope.

'He just sat there in class, drugged up and learning nothing. It was heartbreaking.'

When Jake was eight, his mother took him off Ritalin....

Yvonne created a set routine for Jake: every morning, he gets up at the same time.

He is expected to tidy his room and lay out the breakfast things. He has to make eye contact and reply to questions. Manners are vital.

'He has to say please and thank you. I never raise my voice to him, and the atmosphere in the house is always calm,' says Yvonne.

'Everything happens in a specified sequence of events.

'Coming home from school, he has a cup of tea, a snack and then is allowed to go to his bedroom and work on his computer....

'It sounds easy, but it has been a long, slow road. We've had lots of setbacks, because if he can't have what he wants immediately, he could get frustrated.

'But he has learned that I am not going to change my mind and give in to him.

'I have given him boundaries and discipline, and it has worked miracles on his behaviour....

Once branded as 'hopelessly disruptive', Jake is taking Btec courses in advanced maths, IT, engineering and travel & tourism. He spends his spare time mending computers for friends and family.

As bad as England is with socialized medicine and idiotic laws that leave people the victims of criminals, they do have one thing on us here in the states, they aren't as sucked into the Ritalin lie as we are. In the US the Child Protection Racket would have had Yvonne arrested and Jake placed in a foster home and doped up on drugs again so he'd be a more malleable drone of the state.

Posted by Danny Carlton at October 10, 2008 7:43 AM