| ADHD disorder has now reached epidemic proportions | | | | would just give parents the medicine ! Good parenting |
| in America and Europe is not far behind. According to | | | | skills will be a great asset though, once ADHD disorder |
| U.S. Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, ADHD | | | | is diagnosed and the best thing to do is to find a |
| is "one of the most common neurobehavioural | | | | ADHD parents support group near you. This may be |
| disorders of childhood." The only consolation is that | | | | organised by a local church or education authority. By |
| Europeans have a slightly different conception of | | | | attending such a group, you will get more solidarity and |
| ADHD disorder and tend to treat it less with | | | | support and also find out how to access resources |
| psychostimulants. The burning question is if we are | | | | and how to benefit from any special facilities available |
| using the ADHD label to give our failure as a society to | | | | and get up and coming ADHD info. |
| rear our children, a certain legitimacy? | | | | The third misconception about ADHD disorder is that |
| The first misconception is that it is not really a disorder | | | | ADHD medicines will cure it. Although the Internet is |
| or certainly not a mental illness. It is just children | | | | flooded with ADHD info, many parents are maybe |
| behaving very badly. But children with ADHD disorder | | | | suffering from information overload. The medications, |
| have brains which are about 3% smaller than normal | | | | which range from blood pressure drugs, amphetamines |
| children and certain neurotransmitters are defective. | | | | to anti-depressants are really just keeping the |
| This affects their sensory perception. If I am listening to | | | | symptoms under control. There is no cure for the |
| you in a street talking to me, my brain is able to filter | | | | condition and there are very serious doubts (shared in |
| out all the sounds which are unimportant and I can | | | | part by the FDA) about the gravity of side effects |
| concentrate on what you are saying to me. The | | | | which range from risk of cardiac arrest, hallucinations |
| ADHD child is unable to do this and in such a situation | | | | and depression, just to mention a few. An alternative |
| he or she is likely to suffer from a sensory overload | | | | ADHD therapy for this disorder is to consider a |
| with all these sounds coming at him and he is unable to | | | | homeopathic one which blends in very well with a |
| filter out the trivial ones. Staying on task therefore | | | | combination therapy where diet, exercise, parenting |
| becomes an enormous challenge. Hence all the classic | | | | skills and proper school support all play important roles. |
| symptoms of distractability, restlessness and inability to | | | | You can find out more about how easy, cost-effective |
| focus. | | | | and safe these ADHD homeopathic medicines are by |
| The second misconception people have is that bad | | | | clicking on the link below. |
| parenting has caused all this. If that were the case, we | | | | |