Posted by stjames on September 25, 2001, at 16:00:23
In reply to overmedicated, posted by gracey on September 25, 2001, at 10:59:13
A basically normal child, but Dx with ADD/ADHD. Placed on stimulants....Soon the meds are working against the body and there are new behaviours; aggression, anxiety, compulsiveness or impulsiveness....Drs. diagnose these new behaviours with fancy labels, OCD and ODD, and new meds are added to the mix. Nothing is taken away, so now the kid is on 3-4 diff meds, and is convinced that he/she is not normal and cannot be normal without these pills. The kid lives with nausea, constipation, ect...every day. He does not know that this is NOT normal, because his awareness of his body has been clouded by drugs for as long as he can remember.
James here.....
BS and inflamitory. I was that "normal child" in first grade, with a LD and a IQ of 150, despite the fact I was failing school. I did not understand anything they were saying till they put me on stims. What a world of difference ! I had none of the side effects you mentioned and 20 years later have only good effects from the wise and informed choice my parents made to medicate me as a child. To deny me medication would of been abuse.
James
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