
Sick Girls
2023-10-08 · 79 min · Not rated
In recent years, the number of diagnoses of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder has skyrocketed. What are the reasons? Does a society geared towards efficiency use the label ADHS to weed out anyone who does not fit its frames? What are the consequences of the fact that medication treatment has become almost ubiquitous? Could Ritalin and the like have become the doping of the performance society?
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- Gitti Grüter
- Production companies
- kurhaus production, Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, ZDF
- Countries
- Germany
- Status
- Released
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