Mental Illness and Childhood

Matt Walsh has written a very insightful article about the recent meteoric rise in the number of ADHD diagnoses in school-aged children. Children are being diagnosed — and consequently are being prescribed powerful psychiatric medications — at ever higher rates and at ever younger ages. On what basis are these diagnoses being made? Walsh has a hypothesis: Well, the National Institute of Mental Health offers a clue (emphasis mine): People who have ADHD have combinations…