Comments on: ADHD in Jail http://www.addadhdblog.com/adhd-in-jail/ A blog about Attention Deficit Disorder, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:12:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Shane Harvey http://www.addadhdblog.com/adhd-in-jail/comment-page-1/#comment-332835 Shane Harvey Sun, 23 Jan 2011 15:43:12 +0000 http://www.addadhdblog.com/?p=648#comment-332835 Thanks for your advise. Thanks for your advise.

]]> By: Dr. Kenny Handelman http://www.addadhdblog.com/adhd-in-jail/comment-page-1/#comment-332524 Dr. Kenny Handelman Sun, 23 Jan 2011 03:27:27 +0000 http://www.addadhdblog.com/?p=648#comment-332524 Shane, I'm no expert on legal matters, and I'm not an expert on your particular circumstances - I just know what you've posted here. Even though we like to joke about lawyers - if you are being charged for something that shouldn't even be a charge - my thinking is that a lawyer is NEEDED to help to get this taken care of. Just my 2 cents worth... Shane,
I’m no expert on legal matters, and I’m not an expert on your particular circumstances – I just know what you’ve posted here.
Even though we like to joke about lawyers – if you are being charged for something that shouldn’t even be a charge – my thinking is that a lawyer is NEEDED to help to get this taken care of. Just my 2 cents worth…

]]> By: Shane Harvey http://www.addadhdblog.com/adhd-in-jail/comment-page-1/#comment-332353 Shane Harvey Sat, 22 Jan 2011 22:09:52 +0000 http://www.addadhdblog.com/?p=648#comment-332353 Oh and they smashed my windows for nothing my word against theres. Oh and they smashed my windows for nothing my word against theres.

]]> By: Shane Harvey http://www.addadhdblog.com/adhd-in-jail/comment-page-1/#comment-332349 Shane Harvey Sat, 22 Jan 2011 22:08:16 +0000 http://www.addadhdblog.com/?p=648#comment-332349 theyve put me on diazapan at the moment dont know if its working yet and about the lawyer i refused one to beliving a poke cant be classed as a assult i even said when football players lock horns on the pitch then this should also be classed as a assult plus theres a million plus wittnesses so i dont get it. Why try and get me with a assult charge when they should also have the same consiquencises. The world isnt fair i should not have been treated like a criminal for somthing so pethetic. I have hated the justice system for a while now there always messing with me. They raided my flat a while ago when i was living on my own. I was deppresed and had very bad anxietys and they started kicking my door down for someone that used to live there 3 years ago. When you go in the police station and they advertise for example domestic abuse is down by twentey percent i think they mean how many people theve charged regardless to there inocence. I think they work on commision. theyve put me on diazapan at the moment dont know if its working yet and about the lawyer i refused one to beliving a poke cant be classed as a assult i even said when football players lock horns on the pitch then this should also be classed as a assult plus theres a million plus wittnesses so i dont get it. Why try and get me with a assult charge when they should also have the same consiquencises. The world isnt fair i should not have been treated like a criminal for somthing so pethetic. I have hated the justice system for a while now there always messing with me. They raided my flat a while ago when i was living on my own. I was deppresed and had very bad anxietys and they started kicking my door down for someone that used to live there 3 years ago. When you go in the police station and they advertise for example domestic abuse is down by twentey percent i think they mean how many people theve charged regardless to there inocence. I think they work on commision.

]]> By: Dr. Kenny Handelman http://www.addadhdblog.com/adhd-in-jail/comment-page-1/#comment-332114 Dr. Kenny Handelman Sat, 22 Jan 2011 13:59:19 +0000 http://www.addadhdblog.com/?p=648#comment-332114 Shane, I'm so sorry to hear of your ordeal. I think it's best if you can get some help for your self. Maybe there is a crisis service, or mental health service through the emergency room - where you can access some mental health support right away. Hopefully, they can help you with how you are feeling right away. Beyond that - you probably need a lawyer to help with these charges. Hang in there - this will pass! And from what you've said - your future wife does not feel that you assaulted her, and she still loves you - so hang in there! Shane,
I’m so sorry to hear of your ordeal.
I think it’s best if you can get some help for your self. Maybe there is a crisis service, or mental health service through the emergency room – where you can access some mental health support right away. Hopefully, they can help you with how you are feeling right away.
Beyond that – you probably need a lawyer to help with these charges.
Hang in there – this will pass!
And from what you’ve said – your future wife does not feel that you assaulted her, and she still loves you – so hang in there!

]]> By: Shane Harvey http://www.addadhdblog.com/adhd-in-jail/comment-page-1/#comment-331903 Shane Harvey Sat, 22 Jan 2011 07:20:58 +0000 http://www.addadhdblog.com/?p=648#comment-331903 plus wittness was inaccurate to wat she saw she thought i head butted her but i was tellin her shut up i know i shouldnt of poked her but thats bearly assult. im 5"9 the witness said i was 5"3 she was a old women with glasses about 25-30 meters away im scared for me and my familys wellbeing im having a nervous brakedown. plus wittness was inaccurate to wat she saw she thought i head butted her but i was tellin her shut up i know i shouldnt of poked her but thats bearly assult. im 5″9 the witness said i was 5″3 she was a old women with glasses about 25-30 meters away im scared for me and my familys wellbeing im having a nervous brakedown.

]]> By: Shane Harvey http://www.addadhdblog.com/adhd-in-jail/comment-page-1/#comment-331894 Shane Harvey Sat, 22 Jan 2011 07:02:18 +0000 http://www.addadhdblog.com/?p=648#comment-331894 I am 22 and suffer with adhd and i have alot of anger issues due to lack of support. I was arguing with my girlfriend in a local hospital and i poked her and went into her face and said stop shouting in my moms place of work its not fair on her. I then left with my baby to get her fed and ready for bed just as i done this the police knocked my door and arrested me for assult but my misses said i have adhd and i diddnt assult her i was just trying to deal with my babys needs. She bears no markings of assult and the police have stripped her down and noticed a bruise on her lower leg and said to her did he do that. she replied no i dont know were thats come from and then theve accused me of this bruise and now there putting me in court for acctual boddily harm and assult. She has very fair skin wen we went to devon last year she melted in the sun and needed skin steroids to heal her up. she wakes up in the mornin with new bruises on her legs not knowing were she got them She just bruises easly. wen they questiond me i didnt have anouther present and in my condision i needed someone there. I told them exactly wat happend 100 percent. ive just got out of the cells ive been there 24 hours wednesday-thursday then they let me home and re arrested me about that bruise on her leg. I have had a nervous breakdown because of them they have put it in my bail order im not allowed to see the only two people ive ever cared about. I am now on my own waiting for my court date i am that messed up i couldnt even remember my own postcode or pin for my card wich has now been blocked. I have spoken to my misses and she is worried sick about me i cant eat sleep and ive been crying for 4 days flat i am not violent and theve treated me like shit. i am living my own personal hell at the moment because of them. my adhd is currently being sorted after my ordeal as ive been tellin the doctors for years about it i finaly had to get in touch with my mom who knows i suffer with this but wen i was young adhd haddent been herd of so i wasnt diagnosed but now i have been. My mom told the doctor eveything about my child hood and the doctor knew then ive been tellin the truth this whole time. He never listend to me before cause i was always missing appointments but wen my mom looked it up thats one of the main bullet points. I asked to speak to the police doctor and he was absoultly horribe said i was a fake and he was giving me evil eyes and i could tell he diddnt want to speak to me cause of the way he was treating me. I have never struck anouther soul in my life and there treating my like a thug I NEED HELP!!! im so depressed and im in fear of them acctualy getting away with these bullshit alligations and making me loose my soon to be wife and baby. please if somone can shine a light on this for me cause im feeling like death is just round the corner my heart is physically acking i cant bare anouther secound without my loved ones its killing me! I am 22 and suffer with adhd and i have alot of anger issues due to lack of support. I was arguing with my girlfriend in a local hospital and i poked her and went into her face and said stop shouting in my moms place of work its not fair on her. I then left with my baby to get her fed and ready for bed just as i done this the police knocked my door and arrested me for assult but my misses said i have adhd and i diddnt assult her i was just trying to deal with my babys needs. She bears no markings of assult and the police have stripped her down and noticed a bruise on her lower leg and said to her did he do that. she replied no i dont know were thats come from and then theve accused me of this bruise and now there putting me in court for acctual boddily harm and assult. She has very fair skin wen we went to devon last year she melted in the sun and needed skin steroids to heal her up. she wakes up in the mornin with new bruises on her legs not knowing were she got them She just bruises easly. wen they questiond me i didnt have anouther present and in my condision i needed someone there. I told them exactly wat happend 100 percent. ive just got out of the cells ive been there 24 hours wednesday-thursday then they let me home and re arrested me about that bruise on her leg. I have had a nervous breakdown because of them they have put it in my bail order im not allowed to see the only two people ive ever cared about. I am now on my own waiting for my court date i am that messed up i couldnt even remember my own postcode or pin for my card wich has now been blocked. I have spoken to my misses and she is worried sick about me i cant eat sleep and ive been crying for 4 days flat i am not violent and theve treated me like shit. i am living my own personal hell at the moment because of them. my adhd is currently being sorted after my ordeal as ive been tellin the doctors for years about it i finaly had to get in touch with my mom who knows i suffer with this but wen i was young adhd haddent been herd of so i wasnt diagnosed but now i have been. My mom told the doctor eveything about my child hood and the doctor knew then ive been tellin the truth this whole time. He never listend to me before cause i was always missing appointments but wen my mom looked it up thats one of the main bullet points. I asked to speak to the police doctor and he was absoultly horribe said i was a fake and he was giving me evil eyes and i could tell he diddnt want to speak to me cause of the way he was treating me. I have never struck anouther soul in my life and there treating my like a thug I NEED HELP!!! im so depressed and im in fear of them acctualy getting away with these bullshit alligations and making me loose my soon to be wife and baby. please if somone can shine a light on this for me cause im feeling like death is just round the corner my heart is physically acking i cant bare anouther secound without my loved ones its killing me!

]]> By: Melanie Roberts http://www.addadhdblog.com/adhd-in-jail/comment-page-1/#comment-331398 Melanie Roberts Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:10:23 +0000 http://www.addadhdblog.com/?p=648#comment-331398 My youngest Daughter who is now 16 is ADHD-Diagnosed. It has been hard going But we have not gone the Ritalin route.I have used a cognitive approach. She was diagnosed at about 9 years old.The biggest problem has been the Educational System in refusing to acknowledge the problems untill it was too late and then trying to catch up on their mistake. We still have our problems but I have always talked my Daughter through it-the good and the BAD.When the BAD happened she did not identify what she was doing but afterwards, when she was in a calmer more receptive mood I would explain how she had been.She has learn't how to handle it-still there are times that can be difficult but she has had to earn to live with it and how to make it work to her benefit.One day I will not be there to help her so she has to be able to manage it herself. Drugs only supress it and often cause other problems. There is not a 'Cure' You do not grow out of it.It is there for life But with the right help-you can learn how to manage it. If we only had schools that would take these children on when first identified and used a cognitive approach,linked with a strong activity approach to use the energy these children would forge ahead with their education and pass the rest of the children with flying colours. My youngest Daughter who is now 16 is ADHD-Diagnosed.
It has been hard going But we have not gone the Ritalin route.I have used a cognitive approach.
She was diagnosed at about 9 years old.The biggest problem has been the Educational System in refusing to acknowledge the problems untill it was too late and then trying to catch up on their mistake.
We still have our problems but I have always talked my Daughter through it-the good and the BAD.When the BAD happened she did not identify what she was doing but afterwards, when she was in a calmer more receptive mood I would explain how she had been.She has learn’t how to handle it-still there are times that can be difficult but she has had to earn to live with it and how to make it work to her benefit.One day I will not be there to help her so she has to be able to manage it herself.
Drugs only supress it and often cause other problems.
There is not a ‘Cure’ You do not grow out of it.It is there for life But with the right help-you can learn how to manage it.
If we only had schools that would take these children on when first identified and used a cognitive approach,linked with a strong activity approach to use the energy these children would forge ahead with their education and pass the rest of the children with flying colours.

]]> By: debbie http://www.addadhdblog.com/adhd-in-jail/comment-page-1/#comment-221065 debbie Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:47:36 +0000 http://www.addadhdblog.com/?p=648#comment-221065 my son got a diagnosis of hyperkinetic conduct disorder, at 13 he was great on ritolin. when he was 15 he started to refuse his medication sometimes and got his self in a lot of trouble. he went to prison for 3 years while he was in there they took him of the medication without my permission. They released him and he was suffering greatly with his adhd, before i could get him to a psychiatrist he had committed more crime and 23 days after he was released he was arrested the police took him out and he admitted a lot of crime (which i dont believe that he did most of them) he was sentenced to a further 3 half years. He has just been released again and within 7 days back in prison. i feel the prison service should not of stopped his meds because while taking it in his early days he was calm and committed no crime. he is now looking at a new sentence and a licence for life. i think this is so unfair because he is only 21 and has been handed out a lot of prison and no help, for his problems. i feel like his life is over to the prison service when all he needed was the correct medication. The authorities have failed him all his life but he is the one paying for it. my son got a diagnosis of hyperkinetic conduct disorder, at 13 he was great on ritolin. when he was 15 he started to refuse his medication sometimes and got his self in a lot of trouble. he went to prison for 3 years while he was in there they took him of the medication without my permission. They released him and he was suffering greatly with his adhd, before i could get him to a psychiatrist he had committed more crime and 23 days after he was released he was arrested the police took him out and he admitted a lot of crime (which i dont believe that he did most of them) he was sentenced to a further 3 half years. He has just been released again and within 7 days back in prison. i feel the prison service should not of stopped his meds because while taking it in his early days he was calm and committed no crime. he is now looking at a new sentence and a licence for life. i think this is so unfair because he is only 21 and has been handed out a lot of prison and no help, for his problems. i feel like his life is over to the prison service when all he needed was the correct medication. The authorities have failed him all his life but he is the one paying for it.

]]> By: Scott http://www.addadhdblog.com/adhd-in-jail/comment-page-1/#comment-220802 Scott Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:05:04 +0000 http://www.addadhdblog.com/?p=648#comment-220802 My younger brother suffers from ADHD, just as I do, although I wasn't officially diagnosed until last year, and he hasn't been diagnosed at all (I'm 40, he's 32). He ended up in jail for a year due to drunk driving that ended in a fatal accident. He'd never gotten into trouble otherwise. He didn't get into drugs, but was well on his way to becoming an alcoholic (if he wasn't already there). He's attended AA since the accident, and is out on full parole and trying to do something with his life now, but one thing I had recommended to him, once I was diagnosed, was to mention to his parole officer the possibility that he had ADHD. I'd read about alcohol abuse with ADHD sufferers, and it fit perfectly with both him and my father. I don't think he mentioned it, but I have been poking at him to go for an official diagnosis and to get medication for it. My younger brother suffers from ADHD, just as I do, although I wasn’t officially diagnosed until last year, and he hasn’t been diagnosed at all (I’m 40, he’s 32).

He ended up in jail for a year due to drunk driving that ended in a fatal accident. He’d never gotten into trouble otherwise. He didn’t get into drugs, but was well on his way to becoming an alcoholic (if he wasn’t already there). He’s attended AA since the accident, and is out on full parole and trying to do something with his life now, but one thing I had recommended to him, once I was diagnosed, was to mention to his parole officer the possibility that he had ADHD. I’d read about alcohol abuse with ADHD sufferers, and it fit perfectly with both him and my father. I don’t think he mentioned it, but I have been poking at him to go for an official diagnosis and to get medication for it.

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