ADHD is a disorder that affects a person's attention and behavioral control. There are prescription medications that can be used to help control behavioral outbreaks and help the person(s) maintain attention, but is the diagnosis of ADHD, helping or hurting kids? The question of whether the diagnosis of ADHD helping kids or not has a few points of view. The diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is seen as harmful to students because, the diagnosis is typically followed by the prescription of new medicine and behavioral therapy. This is not helpful to the students because they become dependant on the medicine, when they should be learning techniques to help with attention and behavioral control. The common counter argument