Do you have to be on medication forever if you have this?
2006-06-24 06:44:40 · 10 answers · asked by honey27 4 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
For all of the people who said "up until a few years ago, people with ADD didn't have medication and they got through it."
I would like to tell you where they "got": PRISON!!! DIVORCE!! FINANCIAL RUIN!!! ADDICTIONS!!! DEATH!!!
Think I'm kidding? I am an RN and I have a daughter who has ADHD. Because of medication, she is a good student, is on the tennis team, works and helps out in volunteer organizations. She is an artist and painted the sets for the school play. She is going into 11th grade and is planning to go to college to study art. She has friends and is a joy to be around. She is NOT a zombie, stupefied, or lethargic.
Before medication, she could barely sit in a desk, ate ten times a day, never watched for cars, was very impulsive, impatient, had no friends, bad grades, and I had to beg people to watch her so I could run errands because taking her was too difficult. Even at 11, 12 y/o when taking medication breaks, so don't tell me "well, six year olds are difficult to take on errands." Because of medication, she is now learning to drive a car and the difference between practicing with and without medication is evident.
Anyone who won't medicate a child who really truly could benefit from it just because they are worried about what their family, friends, neighbors would think shouldn't be a parent. Your child will suffer the most! I hope that you plan on supporting them when they drop out of school and can't hold a job. I'll be sitting in an auditorium watching mine walk across the stage!
2006-06-24 08:32:54 · answer #1 · answered by Teresa 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is possible, but very hard. You might not have to be on the meds forever, for some forms of ADD will eventually fade. Ask your doctor about it, I am sure he will be able to give you a better idea of how long you will need to take medication.
2006-06-24 13:50:17 · answer #2 · answered by Kat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES..my son has a.d.d. and I refused to put him on medication. there are just too many side effects!! We use a reward system for him...and it works great. He is going into the fifth grade and reads at a 7th grade level and is doing math at a 6th grade level. Part of the problem with a.d.d. is that it is so overdiagnosed! Kids dont get recess like they used to...and because of the "No child left behind" crap...they dont go to classes like P.E. very often either...where do you think that energy is going to go?? They expend it INSIDE the classroom...and then they are labeled a.d.d because they cant sit still. Kids need to spend more time outside in the fresh air(my son had a total of 40 minutes a day for recess and lunch) We dont let employees work 8 hours without an hour break...why is it that we EXPECT kids to do it???
2006-06-24 13:57:43 · answer #3 · answered by SKITTLES 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyone in the entire world from the beginning of time up to the 1980's was living without ADD drugs.
Any more questions?
2006-06-24 14:43:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
think about it - ADD medication just started being used in great popularity less than 10 years ago.
so before then, everybody with ADD-like symptoms just had to deal. it is definitely possible - one just has to learn to compensate and deal with their shortcomings just like people with other sorts of learning difficulties do (slow readers, comprehension, etc)
the reason why so many people are being put on medication now is mostly because parents/teachers/school administrators don't want to have to deal with a student that needs extra help/attention/reminding.
it is totally possible
2006-06-24 13:49:34 · answer #5 · answered by K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is possible to go with out meds. The question is will you be able to focus and achieve as much as you did when you were on meds. Most ADD meds are very addictive. Just like diet pills can be.
2006-06-24 14:54:39 · answer #6 · answered by maxsteel 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Einstein himself would have diagnosed with it......
If he had been on drugs, we probably wouldn't have E=MC2... :)
Try a nutritionist, I've been hearing great things about their work in this.
2006-06-24 14:00:46 · answer #7 · answered by montanacowgirlwannabee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is possible because everyone I know thinks I have it but I don't take any medicne
2006-06-24 14:02:52 · answer #8 · answered by Chinchilla 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes without ADD you cant SUBTRACT OR DIVIDE
2006-06-24 13:48:30 · answer #9 · answered by Pobept 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no but u really have to be on top of it
2006-06-24 13:48:22 · answer #10 · answered by llac_queen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋