Dr. Malo's Adventures

After seeing more and more kids and what behavior is considered "abnormal" and what behaviors can be corrected medically.... I am leaning more and more toward the notion that many kids at the mosque need to be evaluated and or treated. In fact, some of their parents need treatment as well. There is no reason for the behavior and lack of discipline that the kids demonstrate at the mosque or in school. I could rattle off a list of kids that have ADD or ADHD superimposed on Bipolar disorder.... but I'll be nice.

Of course the fear is over diagnosis of ADD, and unnecessarily putting kids on drugs, but trust me, some of these kids are way beyond the ADD stage and should get treated. Bad parenting and ADD make a terrible combination... and then teh kids end up being trailer trash, druggies and losers... everyone wonders what went wrong.

Not to throw the blame entirely on genetics and chemical inbalances (ahh, the joys of inbreeding) of the kids, also, many of the adults in the community have serious coping issues, fixation, post-traumatic stress disorder, scatterbrain, inability to focus, reaction formation, impaired judgement, inability to react logically or rationally, paranoid, hsitrionic, egocentric, subconscious overuse of defense mechanisms (rationalization, displacement, intellectualization, suppression, fixation on targets) and one parent is almost schizophrenic... more of a schizophrenoid.