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My favourite quote of the day comes from my seat neighbor at a Maryleborne Café this afternoon:
“The only thing that graduating from Central Saint Martins [a prestigious London arts and design school] has given me is ADHD”
This is an equally funny and insightful statement. Too often do we treat mental disorders as something intrinsic, rather than something inflicted on us by our circumstance.
It’s an important distinction. If ADHD is something intrinsic, then we need to treat the symptoms. And we do. For many children and from a young age. With amphetamines.
If instead we recognize it for what it is: a condition delivered to us by a very unnatural environment, then we create a possibility and a responsibility: A possibility to actually address the root causes of ADHD and many other conditions instead of creating more problems by drugging our children. And a responsibility for all of us to change the environment we live, study and work in.
Marc Chagall’s “I and the Village” (1911)
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