@jerv
It’s all so very complicated. Psychiatry, though they have made great strides in both the science, the understanding of psychiatric disorders, and treatment, it is still, really, not an “exact science.”
ADD, ADHD, OCD, Autism, Aspergers, etc. are real disorders, with real consequences, and while I think some of these disorders may be over-diagnosed, particularly ADD and ADHD, but you don’t want to throw the baby out with the bathwater, as they say. And how to treat children with these disorders is a very tough call, I think. If medications and certain types of treatments can really help a child then the children need to be treated.
Proper treatment, early on can save some of these kids a lifetime of disfunction, but as I said, I don’t think it’s quite an “exact science” yet. And until it is, people, children, will get treatment they don’t need, to their detriment, perhaps, and people, children, won’t get the treatment they need, to their detriment also, I think.