ADD Meds Info for Moms – Part I
Sunday, September 11, 2011 2 Comments
Titration Trials – ADD Med’s Info for Moms Series: Part I
BACKGROUND: The genesis of the information in this series was actually a reply to a thread on the ADDitude Magazine Website.
I’m reposting it here because their site stripped the paragraph formatting at post time, making it WAY too difficult to read.
Since I’m adding it here anyway, I expanded its focus, added new content, and “edited a bit” so that it would make sense to those of you who don’t ever click the link to ADDitude Magazine for context (there’s tons of OTHER great stuff over there for those of you who do).
This series is my response to a number of medication concerns and comments posted in a section supporting Moms of ADD kids. There were various medication concerns, each detailing symptoms and side-effects in their children, hoping to get some advice from the other Mom’s with ADD kids.
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Even though I am The ADD Poster Girl, known globally for my ADD expertise – working with ADD for a twenty-five years, and even though I:
- Know, literally, hundreds and hundreds of ADDers, and
- Co-founded the ADD Coaching field, and
- Developed and delivered the world’s first ADD-specific coach training curriculum, and
- Have helped hundreds of ADDers turn their lives around
I am NOT a doctor or a scientist!!
This article is NOT what is considered a “primary source.” Neither is most of the ADD information you will run across on the internet, most of what you will find in books, or anything in the popular press.
That doesn’t mean the info you find there is not valuable or accurate,
but it also doesn’t mean that it IS.This series has been written to provide Moms with information and context to help you evaluate the risks and the benefits of medication for your children. I want you to have access to the facts and figures and theories and underlying rationale to be able to come to a decision, rather than jumping one way or another in reaction to the fear-mongering, sound-biting and personal opinion pretending to be information for a while now.
