Monday’s Medicine Myth: “ADHD Meds Fix the Problem.”
Part 1: The History of the Myth
Before this became a modern cultural script, it started with a very old medical habit:
1. The 1950s: Behavior = Diagnosis = Pill
When stimulant medications were first used in children, doctors noticed something striking: kids who were restless or unfocused became calmer and more compliant.
So the logic became:
“If the pill changes the behavior, the behavior must be the disease.”
This was the birth of the myth.
No physiology.
No metabolic context.
Just behavior = label = medication.
Most adults don’t take ADHD meds because they’re reckless.
They take them because life keeps handing them more tabs than their brain can keep open.
Here’s the part no one tells you:
Stimulants don’t create focus.
They rent it.
And the bill always comes due.
If you want the other parts of the class...
If you want the physiology behind why these meds “work” even when the root cause isn’t ADHD (and it usually isn't) how to read your body’s signals before you override them, that’s inside the community.
$26 gets you in.
Clarity and truth gets you out.
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Dr. Peninah Wood Ph.D
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Monday’s Medicine Myth: “ADHD Meds Fix the Problem.”
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