Cool Bipolar runs in your family. It's common practice not to give amphetamines or any kind of stimulants to people with bipolar because it puts their mania through the roof and can throw them off the deep end. Your doctor should know this, which leads me to believe that either your doctor doesn't know about your family history, or that he does and he's incompetent. YOU DO NOT GIVE AMPHETAMINES TO PEOPLE WITH BIPOLAR, IT MAKES IT WORSE.
Great, so you just proved the point I made in an above post.. that he's not being taken care of properly at his mothers home. What a coincidence that I was able to guess that before I even knew the information you just posted.
I don't know why in the hell you randomly came up with the idea that his behavior must be ADHD, but it sounds like it's something else entirely. Pissing your pants for attention is not adhd. Getting jealous when someone plays with his sister is not ADHD. I'm going to tell you the straight truth because I hope it helps you, but you seem pretty set in your ignorance. Your son sounds like (given the situations described above) he's in line to have a developmental disorder, maybe ODD or bipolar down the road. What you're describing is not ADHD, it's something else entirely, and the circumstances you described make a non-adhd diagnoses incredibly probable.. especially given your long family history of mental illness. What your son needs (preferably very soon) is therapy. Not psychostimulants. If you want to help turn your sons life into a very miserable thing, go ahead and throw amphetamines at him when he's 8. You're 21, you're young, you obviously do drugs and think that drugs solve problems. And you'd be right, sometimes they do help. But in the case of your son, they won't, I would be my life on that. Don't be an idiot, please, and don't ruin your sons life even more. It sounds like he's already starting to develop a personality disorder of some sort, and it sure as hell isn't ADHD. Stimulants should only be used on people who are healthy, and do not have a family history of mental illness's that can be exacerbated by stimulants.
Spend some time doing research on pub med about bipolar and the interactions amphetamines have with it. Forget the whole my 6 year old kid has ADHD because he can't sit still and gets in trouble at school... that's complete fucking bullshit. Look at your family history, look at the living conditions your son has grown up in thus far, and go talk to a therapist with him, but PLEASE do not think amphetamines will fix the problem he already has, because they will make it worse, and then your son will end up worse off than you are.
uh, obviously that's what you meant. I don't think anyone interpretted your post as saying that the parents were self medicating the kid with their own adderall prescription. But my point was that doctors (especially GP's), don't ever get the whole story and often throw meds to people that should not ever take them. A smart doctor would ask about family history of mental illness, cardiac diseases, blood pressure problems, would order an EKG before starting stimulant therapy, etc. Apparently your doctor failed to do that.
Whatever, all bullshit aside, please do not give your son adderall, or any form of stimulants. You're going to hurt him in the long run and you can bet every ounce of yourself that if he takes stims (especially at that age), he's going to be so much more worse off than he already is, and it will be your fault for allowing it because he'll be 8 and won't be able to make informed decisions.
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