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I am wondering why you need to have medicine for ADHD? can you handle ADHD without medicine??? I mean is the Medicine necessary?

And since it is kind of unusual for someone of your age to have this problem (unless you have been abused), it would be the starting point for treatment. If you have any questions on ADHD possibilities, please ask or post over here - http://www.medhelp.org/forums/ADD---ADHD/show/175 Best wishes.

Yes, the little one could have ADHD. It certainly is an inherited disorder for many - but not all kids. But, i have had kids in the classroom who have ADHD and their brother or sister did not. So it certainly is not guaranteed. By the way, I have seen the changes in how ADHD is treated over the years. Having spent almost 40 years in the classroom. It is being treated much better now then it was.

My parents recently adopted their niece. She has had behavior problems since before they got her. She has been diagnosed as bipolar and kleptomaniac. Recently her behaviors have been getting worse. She has tired to burn their home down, she tried to climb out of the second floor window to run away, she has been writing notes about how she ate certain family members and would like to hurt them. They can't take places because of her stealing. They have found knives and razors in her room.

If you are truly having all the symptoms you say you are and your parents are truly refusing to seek medical care for you then is there someone you can call? Maybe a grandparent, aunt, family friend, or a friend's mom? Based on the symptoms I read on the other forum, if you are truly experiencing these, you need to seek immediate medical attention.

Parenting with consistent discipline and support can help prevent over-diagnosis of ADHD in children. Sometimes, people think their child is ADHD when the child is still very young, under 5, and shows some symptoms. The problem with that is young children are still developing at very different rates and maturity levels vary greatly.

when I met him a little over a year ago he got in trouble for something and my son and his fiancé tried for almost 2 hours to get him to stay in time out. my son had ADHD,.ODD, you name it. and we got him help when he was approx. 2 1/2 because things were just behind in his progression. I am not sure of my grandson's progression but I know that he was still wetting the bed not all too long ago at night. I learned from my mistakes with my son but they wont listen.

You may want to see if you can get a hold of a copy of the August 'Pediatrics' magazine ,there is an article regarding ADHD drugs given to children ,calls to poison centers are up 75% in the last 8 years and most come from affects of the drugs given for ADHD even the drug enforcement agency has issued a Warning.Read 'The Cociane of the Playground' and see for your self.

//www.medhelp.org/forums/ADD---ADHD/show/175 and let me know what he is on and the dose of it. Has the dose ever been adjusted at all by his doc. In other words, did the doc start off low and slowly increase? Oh, and Mark has an excellent question ...what kind of a doctor are you seeing. finally on his soft voice. Is it all the time or only at home. Has it only been this way for this year or was it like this last year? How old is he, what grade is he in and when is his birthday?

t say specifically where your areas of concern are for your daughter in school. I will tell you that for a sensory kid (again, similar to adhd)------- doing much of what they call "heavy work" outside of school hours helps him maintain himself in school. Simple things around the house like animals walks such as crab walk, bear walk, snake, leap frog are good. Jumping on a mattress pulled on the floor. Take pillows off the couches and from around the house and make a big pile.

when should tell the child about adhd & odd, it been 3 months that child been told have adhd & odd, father wont agree with the dr recommending. want know when should i tell my child have adhd & odd? i know for years that child have it but father never beleive me then he finally admit he have adhd too and that he knew his child would have it before he met me.. what i am suppose to do? as single parent. a should i tell my child have adhd & odd?

Unless I read your post wrong, I think that your biggest concern is that your son is falling back academically because he isn't motivated to learn. If this is the case, you might want to reconsider the negative discipline and replace it with rewards for attempts to succeed academically. What could be happening or might happen is that your son has associated learning with punishment. This negative discipline will backfire as it sounds like it has.

PPD, ADHD, Asbergers, form of Autism, at different times. when told he can't have something keeps at the person, can go on for long periods of time. threatened to destroy home while parents sleep, has punched holes in walls. TSS coming to the home now. This is my grandson, lives in Penna., 30 miles north of Allentown, about 20 miles outside of Pottsville. What can be done, and soon, before he hurts someone, or himself?

Parents need to understand that ADD / ADHD has a definite cause. When that cause is removed the child will usually recover. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder – sometimes referred to as Attention Deficit Disorder – is as widespread as the refined foods and the food additives that play such a major role in causing ADD / ADHD. Once you have read the information below you will realise that Ritalin and other ADD / ADHD medications achieve nothing more than the suppression of symptoms.

s advice and what should I do about this I have a severe case of adhd mixed with anxiety and I am a grown adult that needs medication for my adhd for school and work and I get really frustrated that my parents don't let me control my own meds in general they know I don't abbuse it but every time I need my meds I have ask them and it makes my anxiety act up even more cuz I have to call them tell them I need my meds and it's annoying because they r not always their how can I get them t

I hope that you continue to try the no-medication route. Being placed on prescription stimulants for ADHD at 6 years old and being on them for years has left me with disabling, treatment-resistant depression. This is because of the way the meds overwork the dopamine system which is responsible for not only attention but the ability to feel pleasure as well.

//www.medhelp.org/forums/ADD---ADHD/show/175 a lot. And you might also want to continue this discussion over there where I am also the CL. Briefly, cause this could take pages. There is a lot that can be done. You just need the info. What I am most curious about is why aren't the meds making a difference? What is he on and what dose is he on? Also, how long has he been on the meds. His behavior should change (at least at school).

My youngest son is 10 and 60 pounds and at school he is on a 524 plan for accommodations and he has been on meds for 5 or 6 years now. His parents we think were drug abusers but we do not know if they did drugs when both boys were conceived. The middle son is 12 and about 67 pounds and his mom was in a correctional facility when she had him and we know there was substance abuse going on then. I will have to check out that book to read asap.

Hi there. So I am wondering what other parents have done as far as college goes for their ADHD child. Has anybody sent their child to college and had them be successful? If so, were they in a special program or was the college just going by the IEP? Thanks.

s support (as for most things in education) is nil. To say that there are more ADHD kids now because the schools are making money off them is untruthful and hurtful. If you are going to place any blame, try drug companies and andvertisements. I am sorry for you and your child. I hope your approach works. Hopefully, you are also trying some behavioral approaches with your child. I noticed that in the Child Behavior forum (you might want to check it out), that Dr.

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