The mother grinned broadly and triumphantly when she announced that the psychiatrist had diagnosed her child with ADHD. "I knew it!" "No one would listen to me, but I knew it, and I was right!"
She continued on to say that she was so relieved to finally have a diagnosis and to finally know that there was a chemical imbalance in her child. Really??? But that dooms the child to have this disorder for the rest of his life. And that is better? Better than what?
Better than admitting it might be the parenting?
That was more than a year ago. Since then the child has been placed on almost every psychiatric medication known to man - without any reduction in symptoms. He is currently on four very serious medications. And he is only 7 years old.
But it's not the parenting...
What a high price we are willing to pay to avoid being wrong.