ADHD Medications
| January 21, 2010 | Posted by Brenda under ADD |
The other night, my family was watching one of our favorite shows – Intervention on A&E. It’s a documentary style show that profiles a person addicted to (usually) alcohol or drugs. In the show, the family stages an intervention and tries to get the person some much needed help.
The other night, a man named Vinny was featured. Vinny was diagnosed with ADHD when he was a child and placed on Ritalin. (By the way, Vinny was abusing crack cocaine; the ADHD was mentioned as background information).
In the show, Vinny says that his mind was always going 100 miles an hour and that he couldn’t focus, but that the Ritalin slowed him down to the point where he felt “retarded”. (His word, not mine).
He went on to say that he hated the way the ADHD medication made him feel so much that he started pretending to take it and then spitting it out.
You would think that his mom or his teacher would have noticed the change, but apparently not.
When my kids took ADHD medication, they were always open and honest about how it made them feel and how they felt about taking it. As far as I know, they always took it when it was given to them and said something when they didn’t. (I recently found out, however, that this was not the case when it came to antibiotics. Apparently they knew that was non negotiable.)
At any rate, I mention this to you as sort of an FYI. If your child takes ADHD medication, and if they seem not to be working as well as they used to, you might want to consider having an open and honest talk with them. Of course, many other things could be causing the change in effectiveness, including growth, weight gain, and diet.
And by the way, untreated ADHD can often lead to self-medicating with things such as alcohol, drugs, food, and nicotine.
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