A donation of any size will make them all vanish for a year...

Would have mentioned it on DU even if I had seen it somewhere else.

the ad implies childhood itself could be considered a treatable disorder.

I've let my membership lapse from time to time, and the shit that comes up in those ads can be downright shocking.

Thanks big pharma - because even though you don't recall who it was specifically; I can make a winning bet on who it was generally.

I really don't think we need to start teaching new, inexperienced parents that their child has a disorder just because they are little clingy. I'm not a child psychologist but in my almost 50 years of life I've observed kids being clingy - especially the younger they are. I think it's normal.

Now, if the kid is older, say starting somewhere in middle-school and up, and is still really clinging that might be a problem. But not necessarily one that requires meds. I'm betting their trials will prove their new medicine is effective and just what's needed for kids though and the FDA will bless it.

My OP triggers a second ad by the same people. No company name just an invitation to join the trial by contacting your local doctor.

it's another corporate American made scare tactic seeding for future income from the gullible.

Like I said in my first post, "clingy" is normal for young kids. I fear the long-term effects of expanding the, already insidious, practice of parents telling their kids to just "shake it off and toughen up" and the "big kids/boys don't cry" meme. Which is what I think this can lead to - parents ignoring their kids because they think they're too clingy and they think they're doing the right thing to toughen them up. How could this not happen? After all, if there's a pill for it it must be an illness.

Yep, let's start teaching kids how to stifle their emotions and need for human interaction from the people who are most important in their lives. That's healthy.

It's not long before they start telling you where to go when you make suggestions as to their behaviour. LOL

fucking up young brains with poorly tested chemicals is a profit center.

play on parental guilt/vanity, they'll spend.

ADVERTISING 101

--make the rubes believe they need something or make them feel bad because they don't have it.

everyone wants to be a good parent in some way (i imagine). pharma plays on that.

That's all. No problemo.