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Originally Posted by TurboFC3S
And just so you know, i don't need or have coffee in the morning, alcohol in the evening, or asprine to help with my pain..... I know your half kidding, but your comparing apples to oranges with your silly examples.
My point is if your change yourself to be a non-lazy, motivated & focused person you can overcome all the symptoms of A.d.h.d... Its all about how much you can motivate YOURSELF! And it would be better to try different ways of achieving this for your child rather then feeding them all these DRUGS to try to help them. There are no benefits of trying to fix A.D.H.D With drugs because whats going to happen when you take them off of the drugs? Back to square 1!
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My point was sometimes drugs are useful. Just going OMG DRUGS ARE BAD! is both ignorant and irrational especially when you're ignoring other regularly abused and useless chemicals while picking on one that's proven to be useful. And it's also dismissing the fact that there are people who have a legitimate medical condition for which medication is required to treat it. My point was if someone had cancer, or chronic pain, or allergies you wouldn't begrudge them medical treatment. Why would you do so for people with mental illnesses? This is a wide spread bias and one of the reasons mental illnesses are so broadly stigmatized. Because people don't understand that there is something physically wrong with the brains of people that have these diseases.
I'm sorry you can't willpower your way out of a legitimate chemical imbalance. Sometimes you can use activities to stimulate chemical releases in your brain that will assist in offsetting the disorder but this assumes that 1. the patient is in a position to manage their own treatment and 2. that the brain of the patient is even chemically able to respond in the desired manner. Often one or the other is not true.
Ideally what happens when it comes to mild to moderate medical illnesses you medicate to bring the patient to a functional baseline, educate them on coping techniques (this is when activities are best introduced) and then when they're handling things well you scale back their medication under observation to ensure they're coping well and managing their condition until they're off of it, with continued monitoring to follow. The drugs aren't the treatment plan, but rather a part of the patient's treatment plan. This is the method for intervening in anxiety, depression, and other mental illnesses and it's exactly the same for ADHD.
This works VERY well. It's not a oh we give you pills then we take them away and now you're fucked again thing. Believe it or not, people who go to school for a decade plus actually know what they're talking about.