Stimulants ADHD - is it that common? Does Adderall stop working?

[phactor]

Most of the misdiagnosed are in younger kids that parents cant control so they automatically assume that it is ADHD. When really it is lack of good parenting.

Its often a far far more complex issue than that. Parents might play a roll, but so do things like a school system in decline, kids living in terrible neighborhoods, massive funding cuts that are closing services that kids need, overloaded teachers etc etc etc...

I wish it were as simple as some want to make it, but it just isn't. Sad thing is, it is getting worse and by the time it gets very bad it will be too late.

I am an early case of ADD (diagnosed in the late 80s) and underwent two weeks of testing (my parents were opposed to putting me on stimulants and really wanted to be sure). I have been off and on ADD meds for quite some time. I didn't like them as a child. Also, I have tried some of the non-stimulant meds and reacted very poorly too them. I took Straterra for two days and got off, the next day was when the first reports of suicide came in. I didn't feel suicidal but had some really weird ideas popping in my head.

Stimulants still speed me up, but I hardly ever take them.

 

[Epsilon Alpha]

I care!

I don't want to hijack the thread, but I was wondering if you have any sources showing whether or not there is any permanent norepinephrine and/or dopamine depletion with long term (say 5 years+) for amphetamine salts of any kind. I had posted something on that but never could find scholarly resources for it. (???) Of course Big Pharma might not want such info to get out...might mean less customers.

There was a retrospective study on young adults who took MPH growing up that didn't find any big negatives that came out in the last year or two. It showed that the kids who were medicated had a happier self reported childhood iirc.