is there a greater likelihood of substance abuse and smoking in ADHD individuals without stimulant medication? If meds still offset that risk, meds are still a better option. Everything is a choice between evils.
yes there is
ADHD Stimulants May Increase Risk of Heart Damage in Young Adults
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#12How is this news? Monitoring heart condition is part of ADHD medication management day 1? confused
yeah, this was the reason I had to stop. Because the doc said "you'll need to have a cardiac report next time or you won't get new pill" to an ADHD patient with no organizational skills. I never went again unfortunately. Oh how I miss it
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#13I would love to see a study on how banning social media impacts ADHD symptoms. The current wisdom is as soon as a diagnosis is made: go straight on the meds because there is minimal side-effects. So environmental modifications as treatment are not explored. Plus, once meds are involved, you now have a stimulant dependence to deal with too involving a afternoon crash, and increased anxiety, etc. Then your on anti-depr…
Sure, in light cases it might help, but mostly you see news/social media amplifying ableistic "look at , they're managing, why aren't you? it's obviously your lifestyle choices" But talk to any people who actually have ADHD and you'll realize that this doesn't help anyone: ADHD doesn't mean "easily distracted", it means "inability to maintain control over focus", and taking distractions away doesn't make this even ma…
If someone had a broken arm you wouldn't tell them to exercise that arm more and that it's fine. Or that back in time people didnt had casts and they were fine.
I don't understand why so many people act otherwise when it does come to issues you can't see.
I don't have ADHD but I have friends who do. And no it's not a question of willpower they need meds to function. So I'm very sensitive when it comes to people saying it's on them like poster before you somewhat implies.
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#14I would love to see a study on how banning social media impacts ADHD symptoms. The current wisdom is as soon as a diagnosis is made: go straight on the meds because there is minimal side-effects. So environmental modifications as treatment are not explored. Plus, once meds are involved, you now have a stimulant dependence to deal with too involving a afternoon crash, and increased anxiety, etc. Then your on anti-depr…
Symptoms most likely didn't decrease dramatically, it's just no longer as visible and easily recognizable to the parents; they also likely started to spend more time with their child, helping them keep attention to tasks that need it.
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#15Well, yes? That's the number one thing written on the box. My doctor checks my heart every month, and we discussed this trade off extensively.
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#16I would love to see a study on how banning social media impacts ADHD symptoms. The current wisdom is as soon as a diagnosis is made: go straight on the meds because there is minimal side-effects. So environmental modifications as treatment are not explored. Plus, once meds are involved, you now have a stimulant dependence to deal with too involving a afternoon crash, and increased anxiety, etc. Then your on anti-depr…
Parents are notoriously unreliable witnesses if you're looking out for signs of neurodivergency. It's just as likely that the symptoms aren't gone at all, they're just less visible now that they have excluded the one marker they had noticed.
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#17I would love to see a study on how banning social media impacts ADHD symptoms. The current wisdom is as soon as a diagnosis is made: go straight on the meds because there is minimal side-effects. So environmental modifications as treatment are not explored. Plus, once meds are involved, you now have a stimulant dependence to deal with too involving a afternoon crash, and increased anxiety, etc. Then your on anti-depr…
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#18How is this news? Monitoring heart condition is part of ADHD medication management day 1? confused
yeah, this was the reason I had to stop. Because the doc said "you'll need to have a cardiac report next time or you won't get new pill" to an ADHD patient with no organizational skills. I never went again unfortunately. Oh how I miss it
I’m in my first month of meds and I’d do anything that’s necessary to keep taking them.
I get it’s a catch 22 sometimes, especially trying to get diagnosed as an adult, but the benefits in my life have been immense.
I’d encourage you to muster the willpower (that we feel we lack so often) and book it if you can afford it. It took me years to get to this point and I wish I had done it sooner. Life is short, allow yourself to live it fully!
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#19Who would have thought that meth(lite) could do that.
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#20I would love to see a study on how banning social media impacts ADHD symptoms. The current wisdom is as soon as a diagnosis is made: go straight on the meds because there is minimal side-effects. So environmental modifications as treatment are not explored. Plus, once meds are involved, you now have a stimulant dependence to deal with too involving a afternoon crash, and increased anxiety, etc. Then your on anti-depr…
Sure, in light cases it might help, but mostly you see news/social media amplifying ableistic "look at , they're managing, why aren't you? it's obviously your lifestyle choices" But talk to any people who actually have ADHD and you'll realize that this doesn't help anyone: ADHD doesn't mean "easily distracted", it means "inability to maintain control over focus", and taking distractions away doesn't make this even ma…
> mostly you see news/social media amplifying ableistic...
It's actually the opposite.
It is now practically forbidden to criticize anything related with ADHD.
After reading all the literature I concluded there were huge problems with almost every aspect of it. Then you go try to tell people and you are tarred and feathered.
Then look at incentives: on one side is: "a citizen concerned that maybe taking stimulant meds is going to cause greater problems" vs "drug companies and psych industry making huge money from increasing lifetime prescriptions of stimulants".
The people on the "hang on a minute" side of things are concerned about health and safety of society. They stand to make ZERO money from raising the alarm. On the other side its billions of dollars.
> trying to decide how people should treat their disabling medical conditions.
Trying to raise awareness of risks. I think people don't understand the risks. They see a smart pill with no side-effects.
Do what you like.