Male and Female Imponderables--Delicate Sound of Thunder
POSTED BY: Tristan
UPDATED: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 15:41
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I find it really interesting to see someone on Ritalin who says it has helped, as I usually only get to hear arguements against it (my mum is a care assistant for a 5 year old who is dosed up - wrongly in her opinion. She's seen a sweet imaginative child with some behavioural problems turn into a sullen depressed zombie.) I have pretty much the same views that you summed up, that where it truely is needed then it can make a great positive difference.
I just wish that there was a concentration pill for the truely scatterbrained of us. I have the attention span of a three year old. So many projects that I start or mean to start and never get around to finishing. I just don't seem to have much will power at all. I often wonder what I could accomplish if I could be as motivated and active as some people. I'm lucky if I can force 5 hours of really useful activity into a day. *Sigh*
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Huh, I missed alot!
RugBug, about the animal comment, not offense taken at all. We are animals, and the same rules apply to all of us, even in the area of learned behavior. Normal, tried-and-true methods generally work, but there are individuals with wiring flaws, and traditional methods do not always work. Thank you for that post!
Damn, Emma. :hugs: and 
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mostly I'm just a bit of a dingbat and I can't track an idea for more than a few moments and I have a horrible tendancy to forget and misplace things...sigh but hey it's worth it. It just makes life a bit of a struggle to get what I need done and not forget anything important, but oh well it'll be worth it and all:)
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For Emma who wants to improve her concentration and MsG who is off her Ritalin:
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/innovations/stories/s1695160.htm (This interview briefly mentions Dyspraxsia, too)
http://www.usa.makelifebetter.com/systems/science/science_22776.html
http://www.fatsforhealth.com/news_update/research_summary_brain.php
Well, you get the idea. Google "fish oil" or "Omega-3" and "brain function" if you want still more info.
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Wow, a discussion on psyche meds. Just what I need after a hard day 
Well, I can only speak from my own experience, which is this; I've suffered from depression in the past. I was prescribed meds. I took the meds. I got better.
I was lucky in a lot of respects - my depression was fairly mild (not that it felt that way to me, but then it never does) and consequently I only needed a mild dose. I stabalised pretty quickly and didn't get any adverse reactions.
It was pretty much like taking an antibiotic for an infection, only it sorted out the funky chemicals in my brain instead.
Since then I've had to be careful and I've used other therapies to help prevent getting depressed again, so hopefully I won't need any more meds 
That's about it. Questions? Comments?
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MSG _ pregnancy also can make you very absentminded.I was never so scatterbrained in all my life.
PR- I bookmarked the articles I've got to go get Dylan from school,so I'll read them tonight over a margarita at the forsaken pub.
TTFN.
Bryce
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MSG _ pregnancy also can make you very absentminded.I was never so scatterbrained in all my life.
PR- I bookmarked the articles I've got to go get Dylan from school,so I'll read them tonight over a margarita at the forsaken pub.
TTFN.
Bryce
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I swallowed a bug.
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Sorry for the double post.Sean just ran at me full force.
Bryce
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I swallowed a bug.
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Ok, I gotta jump in on the meds thing. As someone with three chronic illnesses and taking five separate prescriptions, I have a strong opinion about these things.
I think it's important to differentiate between psychiatric drugs, and medications used to treat physical illness. I don't think this is a mistake that anyone here is making, but I often hear that medicating children at all is wrong, and I think that overlooks the scores of childhood diseases that require medication. One of the diseases I suffer from results in my thyroid not producing enough thyroid hormone, so every day for the rest of my life, I will have to take a pill that supplements that which my body cannot make naturally. Without that medication, my health would slowly decline, until I could no longer work, until I could no longer get out of bed, and eventually I would end up in a coma and die. This disease runs in my family, so all my siblings are tested for it regularly, and if my youngest brother, who just turned 13, was diagnosed with it, I would challenge anyone who tried to deny him the necessary and life saving medication.
I'm a big believer in medical testing, and I refuse to accept a diagnosis that doesn't have solid medical tests to back it up. There's a simple blood test that measures thyroid hormone, and I get that re-tested often so that we can adjust the amount of thyroid medication I'm taking. My third chronic illness is so far undiagnosed (that is, we don't know specifically what it is, but my doctors are doing their best to treat it), and I've had plenty of quacks try to pawn off some BS diagnosis on me -- supposed diseases that either have no tests whatsoever on which to base the diagnosis, or have wishy-washy "clinical signs" which I don't fit. No thanks.
Medication for depression is the one that gets me, though. I've been strongly warned against taking any psychiatric medications, because they would mask my symptoms, and because it would mess with the delicate hormonal balance of my body. I've fired more than a couple of doctors for implying that the problem is just that I'm depressed, and there's not anything actually physiologically wrong. Those suggestions usually come out after they haven't been able to diagnose me within a few weeks, and I'm at the height of a flare up. (I'm at the height of good health right now, but with flu season upon us, it's only a matter of time before I catch something, which will cause a flare and lead to six+ months of pain.) I just feel like telling them, "Look, bub, of course I'm depressed, I've been in pain 24/7 for the last X months straight, can't work full time, can't do the grocery shopping by myself, and walk with a cane at the age of 25. How would you feel? Now how bout you treat the underlying cause, rather than trying to stuff Prozac in my mouth just to get me out of your office, hmm?"
MsG, I'm glad to hear that ADD can be diagnosed with a PET scan now. One of my brothers was diagnosed with it about 10 years ago, and it was hugely frustrating for our family. The other five of us were identified as "gifted," and all but one of the behaviors the teachers and doctors pointed out in my brother applied to the rest of us as well. The only difference was he would forget to do his school assignments. All six of us would drift off in class (usually writing stories in our heads), forget to do our chores, be disorganized and running late, all of it. So I'm glad to hear that the diagnosis for ADD has moved beyond a list of behaviors that looks like it was copied directly out of the "Gifted and Talented" manual.
My parents agreed to medicate my brother for awhile, but eventually my mom decided to try taking him off the medication and just home school him instead. It took a lot of time and effort, but through strict schedules and a lot of attention, my brother finally developed good habits that let him function around whatever ADD he may or may not have had. He went back to public school for high school and sailed right through, just like t
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LA is right. Being PG makes you
a) absent minded
b) clumsy
I was never so ditzy in all my life as when I had the tidbit on board. I dropped (and broke) plates, glasses, etc.
But it was a wonderful ditzy, too.
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