Mental Health Association of Nebraska

Music video addresses more than just ADHD

Rapper Chill E.B. has posted Ya'all Busted, a music video raising questions around the diagnosis and treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) on YouTube.  The video includes segments featuring noted experts on ADHD discussing the issue at a 1998 National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference.  The NIH website provides a disclaimer that states that given the age of the conference, the information is provided for historic purposes only, and "some of the material is likely to be out of date, and at worst simply wrong."

However, the video raises important issues regarding diagnosis, treatment and medications that can be applied to other mental illnesses:

    "Free your mind from mis-education, misinterpretation yo they tryna control.

    You and me both with dose after dose.

    A comatose and roast ya, enslave the culture.

    Insulin shock 10,000 has to stop.

    Lobotomy cuttin' up brains 11,000 dropped.

    And you wanna know who gansta? Who da dope man?"

For a copy of the lyrics,  click here.

For more information on ADHD, visit NIH's MedlinePlus.

Peer to Peer Services: People Helping People

According to Mental Health Patients Turn to Each Other (better yet:  People Living With Mental Health Issues Help Each Other), peer to peer services provide a perspective that traditional medical service professionals cannot provide. Peer to peer services provide "a chance to discuss and maybe get help for problems that, all too often, their friends, families and even therapists didn't seem to understand."  If you can read beyond the constant reference to patients instead of people, the article provides affirmation to what many of us already know.  To read more . . .