Childhood Is The New Diagnosis

Now I know I'm not that  old, and I know I've mentioned  in a  recent blog the changes I've noticed in today's youth, but it dawned on me today while I was watching one of those "if you need help call  us we're lawyers* commercials  that  many of the problems within  today's youth are not their fault. When I was a little girl children would daydream, get emotional and  sometimes even take a quiet moment to themselves. I was actually one of those lucky children. In this day and age, however, daydreaming is a apparently a telltale sign for ADHD , getting emotional is now synonymous to Bipolar-ism and being an thoughtful introvert implicates heady depression. MY  response to all of these insinuations is SINCE WHEN? Since when  does being a normal  child make you the candidate for an 'one pill a day ' dosage. All these parents and all these so called medical gurus are so busy drugging happy, active children that they neglect the ones who ACTUALLY  need help. Is there even going to be a such thing as active child in a few years? What's it going to take for the higher- ups to  realize that medicating a being whose body isn't even fully equipped to deal with whats being put inside of it isn't always the best way. The obliviousness in the way most authorities operate in this matter is liable to destroy a generation that beforehand held such promise.