George Lucas, the creator of the Star Wars and Indiana Jones films once stated, “I’m not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.” Lucas is among good company. Some of the world’s greatest minds, including scientists, artists, innovators and humanitarians, were avid daydreamers. Despite the incalculable gifts resulting from the work of some of the world’s most famous daydreamers like Albert Einstein, Thomas Alva Edison, Sir Isaac Newton, Florence Nightingale and Sir Paul McCartney, the latest fad diagnosis—Sluggish Cognitive Tempo (SCT)—will “psychiatrize” the creative thoughts of millions of children including our future artists, scientists and label them with the latest ‘fad’ in mental illnesses, “SCT”. Psychologist Russell Barkley’s recently released ADHD: A Handbook for Diagnosis & Treatment, Fourth Edition, markets SCT. And Barkley suggests that the alleged SCT “may be a form of pathological mind wandering,” even though there are no medical/scientific tests to confirm any pathological finding. But this is the same man who once said that Ritalin (methylphenidate) which, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration, is nearly identical to cocaine in its effect, is “safer than aspirin.”
Posted on: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 22:19:42 +0000
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