Posted by Buckeye Fan on October 20, 2005, at 22:17:43 [reposted on October 21, 2005, at 1:41:09 | original URL]
In reply to Re: ADDH, posted by alohashirt on October 20, 2005, at 21:49:55
There are no silver bullets that will kill the werewolf. The funny thing about unnatural medication & natural herbal remedies is that my body can't distnguish penicillin from moldy bread. I have tried nine medications and fifteen herbal remedies. I'm now taking Focalin XR, fish oil, and exercise.
The risk of not treating ADHD is huge - I failed a year of college, didn't get promoted, lost a job, and I'm one of the high functioning ADHD people! When I was diagnosed with ADHD I spent a year reading everything i could find about teh condition - I was extremely skeptical. The more I read the clearere it was that, particularly for children, medication was turning F students into B students, allowing people to focus. My own experience was that medication allowed me to concentrate for the first time. There is a lot of panicked, almost hysterical writing about over-diagnosis of ADHD and dangers of Ritalin. In fact it seems that Ritalin is better tested medication than almost every other medication available and is ten times safer than tylenol.Medication is only one part of treatment. I can strongly recommend "Delivered from Distraction" by Ned Hallowell a psychiatrist who has ADHD himself. Some people try coaching ro cognitive therapy to help build skills to work around the symptoms. Is also worth knowing that there are some positive characteristics that accompany ADHD. Many ADHD people are enormously creative, persistent and intuitive.
It's worth taking your son to an ADHD specialist who is up to speed with current treatment options.
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I appreciate your well thought out post.
I will go to any lengths possible to resue my son from this...now that we have identified the major problem.
I WILL look up and find that Book and anything else I can get my hands on to help make an informed decision.
Like a few other things in life...I thought ADDH was a made-up term for bad behaviour in kids.Boy was I wrong
BF
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