• Sluggish cognitive tempo: the ADHD-like disorder that explains daydreaming?
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[QUOTE]The tough-minded call it naughtiness. Some parents blame dull teaching. More than [URL="http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/documents/timeline.pdf"]a century after it was first described[/URL], there are still plenty of people who wonder whether children who can't concentrate at school are really suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Now a group of researchers think that millions of them are not, but that they are living with something else instead. Sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT), as the condition has been called, was the big story in [URL="http://link.springer.com/journal/10802/42/1/page/1"]the January issue of the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology[/URL]. And to some extent it does tidy up a loose end that has been hanging around for decades: many of those diagnosed with ADHD are not hyperactive at all.[/QUOTE] Crucially: [QUOTE]There are also familiar murmurs about "disease-mongering", not to mention the relationship between some of the researchers into SCT and Eli Lilly, a company that is trialling drugs that might treat it.[/QUOTE] Source: [url]http://www.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/2014/apr/15/sluggish-cognitive-tempo-new-disorder-rival-adhd[/url]
Oh no! 90% of people have sluggish cognitive tempo, better start over prescribing meds again! Seriously can we just stop throwing fistfuls of pills at everything with a name please?
Maybe they can't concentrate because they don't find it interesting?
Is it just me or is literally every facet of human behavior being classed as a disorder lately
[QUOTE=Sitkero;44805783]Is it just me or is literally every facet of human behavior being classed as a disorder lately[/QUOTE] It is just you, you have a disorder.
Everything is a disorder
[QUOTE=Complifused;44805764]Maybe they can't concentrate because they don't find it interesting?[/QUOTE] That's just silly, kids love school, including all of their mandatory classes that teach nothing other than handing out busy work or laborous amounts of dry notes from monotone teachers.
[QUOTE=Jrose14;44805795]That's just silly, kids love school, including all of their mandatory classes that teach nothing other than handing out busy work or laborous amounts of dry notes from monotone teachers.[/QUOTE]Not to mention all the sitting!
Daydreaming is an awesome disorder.
Yo can we get procrastination filed as a mental disorder already? I want to have a medical excuse.
I daydream, I daydreamed all the time in high school and still had a 4.0. Nothing is wrong, I just found most of the shit to be boring and useless. If you're going to read a PowerPoint or textbook to me, I can do that myself. The only classes in college I didn't daydream in were ones that had active participation and again, weren't reading off of a slide. Blame the teachers who phone it in instead of kids trying to occupy their minds with something interesting.
This is fucking stupid, we day dream because we're bored.
Just feed kids PCP, that should fix the problem..
I remember hearing about this on QI Stephen explained it as a medical term slapped onto lazy people
[QUOTE=bravehat;44805762]Oh no! 90% of people have sluggish cognitive tempo, better start over prescribing meds again! Seriously can we just stop throwing fistfuls of pills at everything with a name please?[/QUOTE] This could end up being a good thing because it will help prevent unnecessary diagnoses of ADHD.
i've never had a daydream
Honestly it's hard to say whether this is 'slapping a disorder unto lazy/bored people' or an actual legitimate disorder without seeing the actual research articles firsthand. This news article provides little information on how much research has been done and to what regard, thus disallowing us from really making a proper judgment on how legit this is.
[QUOTE=Chief Martini;44806939]Honestly it's hard to say whether this is 'slapping a disorder unto lazy/bored people' or an actual legitimate disorder without seeing the actual research articles firsthand. This news article provides little information on how much research has been done and to what regard, thus disallowing us from really making a proper judgment on how legit this is.[/QUOTE] 21st century media in a nutshell, my friend.
[QUOTE=Lordgeorge16;44806957]21st century media in a nutshell, my friend.[/QUOTE] Pretty much. I'll read through the abstracts of the articles later to see for myself I guess.
[QUOTE=Lizzrd;44805796]Not to mention all the sitting![/QUOTE] not to mention the sweltering heat and bitter cold common to most schools, its hard to pay attention when your face is either stuck to the desk by sweat or frozen
what constitutes as a daydream? i never really understood it
Oh, hey, look, society is once more applying band-aid solutions to problems it could easily solve outright! Instead of making school interesting let's jsut pump our kids full of drugs! That'll work! They totally won't be dependent on pills and shots to solve their ills later in life!~!![QUOTE=Zeke129;44806792]This could end up being a good thing because it will help prevent unnecessary diagnoses of ADHD.[/QUOTE] Only to overdiagnose this instead, resulting in a net improvement of zilch.
[QUOTE=bravehat;44805762]Oh no! 90% of people have sluggish cognitive tempo, better start over prescribing meds again! Seriously can we just stop throwing fistfuls of pills at everything with a name please?[/QUOTE] [t]http://www.lifebeyondhepatitisc.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/iStock_000015708827Small-270x300.jpg[/t] hahahahahaha PIILLLSSSS whats the time doc? [t]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZBxMqLJp-3k/URi4wjNsfuI/AAAAAAAAhG0/Wqqi4eYnpEg/s1600/aoejyxv.jpg[/t] Time for pills~! whoa too many pills! [t]http://blog.adw.org/wp-content/uploads/fainted.jpg[/t] this is literally what it comes down to with the obsession for "ADD? Pills" "Bad grades, ADD!" [QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;44805792]Everything is a disorder[/QUOTE] anarchy lives [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Forgot to take his pills; bad posting" - Starpluck))[/highlight]
you are really funny jinx [editline]awawa[/editline] :)
[QUOTE=J!NX;44807156] hahahahahaha PIILLLSSSS whats the time doc? Time for pills~! whoa too many pills! this is literally what it comes down to with the obsession for "ADD? Pills" "Bad grades, ADD!" anarchy lives[/QUOTE] Is this tumblr?
[QUOTE=.Lain;44807067]what constitutes as a daydream? i never really understood it[/QUOTE] When you're awake and thinking about something, but unaware of what's occurring around you. It's not really a problem unless you find it happening to you often and uncontrollably.
oh, if i do that it's entirely on purpose :v seems like what a lot of people i know with ADHD describe a lot of situations as
[QUOTE=itisjuly;44805840]Daydreaming is an awesome disorder.[/QUOTE] It's not when you have absolutely no control over it tho One moment I'm taking notes and the next one the teacher is screaming in my face that I'm a slacker, and apparently a full hour had passed. I also regularly zone out while talking to my friends on skype and stuff like that
[QUOTE=outlawpickle;44805857]I daydream, I daydreamed all the time in high school and still had a 4.0. Nothing is wrong, I just found most of the shit to be boring and useless. If you're going to read a PowerPoint or textbook to me, I can do that myself. The only classes in college I didn't daydream in were ones that had active participation and again, weren't reading off of a slide. Blame the teachers who phone it in instead of kids trying to occupy their minds with something interesting.[/QUOTE] damn i daydream all the time in algebra 2 and im getting a 40% in that class. my transcript must hate the 1.5 GPA on it this year. Another thing that pisses me off is i get an A+ in my programming class, which is basically all math and logic, so my math teacher must be doing something wrong. EDIT: Either that or maybe its just that typical "this has no practical use in life!" attitude :P. which i dont think solving hyperbola's and parabola's using factoring has for what i want to do
[QUOTE=AJ10017;44810206]damn i daydream all the time in algebra 2 and im getting a 40% in that class. my transcript must hate the 1.5 GPA on it this year. Another thing that pisses me off is i get an A+ in my programming class, which is basically all math and logic, so my math teacher must be doing something wrong. EDIT: Either that or maybe its just that typical "this has no practical use in life!" attitude :P. which i dont think solving hyperbola's and parabola's using factoring has for what i want to do[/QUOTE] No fear, I got a C- overall and failed the final in my pre-cal class in high school, mostly because the teacher was a controlling bitch and completely lost my respect and attention. I laughed after she graded my final and walked out of the class knowing I'd still pass (we were allowed to leave since it was the last period, I didn't just cool guy walk out of there). I kept a 4.0 because I took AP classes which skyrocketed my GPA and I took programming classes like you that I aced.
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