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TheCatt 
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Posted on: Mar. 17 2014,06:40 |
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I was diagnosed with ADHD several years ago. I took those meds. They were nice in very short spells (1-4 days), but messed up my sleep. The weight loss side was nice though 
I'm open to this argument. I'm just inattentive, particularly in meetings, or other things that are boring.
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Vince
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Posted on: Mar. 17 2014,07:41 |
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I'm open to the idea. I think it's way over diagnosed. Most kids that are hyper and hard to control aren't ADHD. They're just what we call "kids".
That being said, my niece has a friend with one daughter that's been diagnosed ADHD (along, I believe, with a few other things) that really does have something wrong with her. When she was 3 or 4 she would just have sudden melt downs. I remember her raging at me for something or other. I laughed at her, but this wasn't the normal "kid gets mad and after playing for 30 minutes forgets all about it". She stayed at a level of rage the entire evening. Was kind of unsettling.
They put her on meds and she is an entirely different kid. Not a zombie at all either. You could talk to her after that and she'd engage and connect with you in a way that she just wasn't capable of doing before.
One of the few cases I've seen where I can say definitively that I believe she's better off with the meds than without them.
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TPRJones
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Posted on: Mar. 17 2014,08:28 |
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ADD does exist, I'm sure of it. I'm ADD and have been my whole life. Unmedicated, though, because I'm old enough to have missed the ADD diagnosis craze and have over the years developed a set of behaviors that allows me to control and deal with it. I've put some of the positive aspects of it to work for me in my career. But there's no doubt that I am completely incapable of dealing with boredom in a way that is anything like the way normal people seem to.
Maybe I should seek out the meds some time and see how that goes. But I don't think I actually need them to get by.
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Malcolm
I disagree.
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Posted on: Mar. 14 2016,10:49 |
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Hope your kid wasn't born in August.
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