Adhd can be diagnosed at 6. In fact it's usually pretty obvious. Not saying he should be on meds but undiagnosed ADHD can lead to serious problems later in life.
Indeed ADD or ADHD can be identified as young as 5 or 6.Adhd can be diagnosed at 6. In fact it's usually pretty obvious. Not saying he should be on meds but undiagnosed ADHD can lead to serious problems later in life.
Indeed ADD or ADHD can be identified as young as 5 or 6.
There's nothing wrong with giving someone who is 6 years old ADD/ADHD medications.
They're taken by a lot of people worldwide including children, who are monitored by doctors and other medical professionals, and the medications are taken in extremely low doses. Someone who has ADD/ADHD does not react to amphetamine or methylphenidate the way someone who does not have ADD or ADHD does. These medications are certainly a lot more studied, and known about than smart drugs/nootropics and research chemicals are.
Would you deny someone who is a kid and who is bipolar/manic, or even schizophrenic medications that would help them? Or a kid that's a diabetic insulin?
It's true. Try talking to actual medical professionals, experts in ADD/ADHD, and people who have ADD, or ADHD who have taken medications for their ADD or ADHD...instead of just being anti-medication, pretending you know more than neurologists or other medical professionals, and angry for a silly and pointless reason.What a load of bullshit.
It's true. Try talking to actual medical professionals, experts in ADD/ADHD, and people who have ADD, or ADHD who have taken medications for their ADD or ADHD...instead of just being anti-medication, pretending you know more than neurologists or other medical professionals, and angry for a silly and pointless reason.
Indeed ADD or ADHD can be identified as young as 5 or 6.
There's nothing wrong with giving someone who is 6 years old ADD/ADHD medications.
Medication is never going to be perfect. That being said, you have zero way of knowing that the medication itself was responsible for making everything worse.Well, my niece was diagnosed when she was a small kid and all the medication she took made everything worse now.
She became vulnerable and like some of us, she started to medicate herself to get some fun out of it.
I believe she´s now addicted to a lot of pills.
Sometimes, it´s a bit difficult to judge what would have been better for us.
I guess in theory it could work, but we never really know.
Medication is never going to be perfect. That being said, you have zero way of knowing that the medication itself was responsible for making everything worse.
Many studies have shown that those of us with ADHD are already far more likely to abuse and be addicted to drugs, and even far more likely than that if they weren't medically treated as children. It's so significant that it's the ONLY potential disease/disorder I was asked about when assessing the risk for drug abuse, going into pain management.
With everything I've gone through because of it, I would have zero issue medicating my child if I felt the diagnosis was accurate. The people who diminish ADHD and the hardship it can cause frankly have no idea what they're talking about.
But what you should never, ever do under any circumstances is give them nootropic supplements. Because don't kid yourself: These aren't really "supplements" in the way that Vitamin C or fish oil caps are. These are pharmaceutical drugs that are normally used to treat dementia in 80-year-olds in other countries, and usually prescription-only at that. Except when you're buying them as supplements, you don't even know for sure if what you're getting is actually what you ordered, and whether it is free from toxic impurities.
Hodor I couldn't agree with you more.
I will not pretend to know much at all about ADD its symptoms treatments, but this point
can not be stressed enough.
Regardless of your opinions on medications and when and when not to use them, they are still medications that have been Produced in a pharmaceutical lab and put through rigorous quality control checks and are approved for human consumption.
These medications are held to a very high standard.
The chemicals in question may be of a very high purity, but they also may not be.
They may have been produced by someone who takes pride in their work in a very clean lab, but they might also have been produced in an unsanitary lab and contain dangerous contaminants as Hodor brought out.
The fact is you don't know and have no way of knowing.
More and more treatment options that don't involve medications are being discovered and implemented.
I haven't done much research on ADHD, but I am also under the impression that not treating it (I don't think this is medicine-specific) can lead to depression and drug abuse.
I'm no medical professional but six still seems pretty young in my book. Yet if it means the difference between flunking out of high school and graduating with honors from college I'd definitely pick the latter. The problem is no one can predict the future.
I theorize that medicating at such a young age would produce a lot more of a dependence on the medicine than if medicated later because of brain development, but to each their own.