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Attention Deficit Disorder Medication
Though there are some children who are
diagnosed with attention deficit disorder who really
don’t have it, there are many who do. There seems to be
no clear reason why so many have it now, and it is
pretty hard to treat. It comes in many forms, and some
that have it do not have the hyper part of it while
others do. Boys most commonly have ADHD while girls have
less severe forms of the condition and many go
undiagnosed for a very long time, even into adulthood.
Many children are on attention deficit disorder
medication and some work better than others.
My youngest brother was diagnosed when he was about
eight years old, and he was immediately put on attention
deficit disorder medication. This was not a good thing.
He had moments when he was violent or threatened
violence, so my mom knew that something had to be done.
The problem was that the attention deficit disorder
medication that he was put on, otherwise known as
Ritalin, was very hard on him. Instead of the vibrant
and active child we were use to we saw a zombie-like
person who wouldn’t eat much and didn’t seem to have any
will to so anything he use to enjoy. It broke my
mother’s heart.
For years they tried to adjust his attention deficit
disorder medication to the proper level, but that was
harder than it should have been. He came out of his
zombie-like state, but then he started to have episodes
again. Once changed another time, he started doing
better in school but seemed like he had no interest in
the world around him. In the end, my mom took him off
the attention deficit disorder medication because she
couldn’t stand to see him like that. He would always
talk about how odd it was that the same medication that
made him calm and lifeless was a stimulant for other
children, and he was amazed that it became an
underground way for teens to get high.
Since those days, there are new attention deficit
disorder medications on the market, and they may work
better than the original one did. My brother is now over
20 years old, and he no longer suffers from ADHD like he
did when he was a child. The good thing about this
condition is that it does tend to go away as a child
grows up, and by the time they reach adulthood they are
calm, cool, and collected adults.
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