Posted by jboud24 on October 26, 2004, at 13:24:26
In reply to To Medicate or Not? Pros and Cons, posted by momof1bpkid on October 26, 2004, at 11:46:35
Stop allowing your son to be a tool of the psychiatric industry. It isnt your fault, my mom has one of my brother on adderall and he is 8 yrs. old. It's awful, he's like a zombie during the day. And these meds do work on kids like they do on adults. That's not the problem. The problem is that you are altering some of the child's brain while their bain is still in its developmental mode. Thus, the brain tends to develop in a manner inconsistent with the way it would have developed without the medications.
For instance, an old friend of mine, she's female age 22, has been on adderall or dexedrine he since her very early teens. Fast forward 10 years. Now she struggles to feel any sort of motivation on an everyday basis, she takes 60-80mgs of dexedrine / day just to feel normal, and she used to constantly cry to me about how dissatisfied she was with her life, and how she wished she could just function again without an amphetamine 24/7. Constant amphetamine use has also caused her to become an alcoholic, because alcohol is the only thing that will calm her mind enough to get a few hours of sleep each night after the daytime dexedrine use. It was very hard having to watch her go through that.
If you are a consenting adult, have ADD/HD then great, take a stim, at least you know what you are taking and your brain isn't developing anymore. But a child? No,no,no. Not my child anyway.
Take care,
Justin
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