Comments on: ADHD: Marathon, Not Sprint http://www.addadhdblog.com/adhd-marathon-not-sprint/ A blog about Attention Deficit Disorder, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:39:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: ADHD Alternatives Video #2 | ADD ADHD Blog.com http://www.addadhdblog.com/adhd-marathon-not-sprint/comment-page-1/#comment-177533 ADHD Alternatives Video #2 | ADD ADHD Blog.com Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:13:10 +0000 http://www.addadhdblog.com/?p=385#comment-177533 [...] to alternative treatments. I also share how I think differently about them… I explain that ADHD treatment is like a marathon, not a sprint – so you need to take that into consideration when looking at which treatments to [...] [...] to alternative treatments. I also share how I think differently about them… I explain that ADHD treatment is like a marathon, not a sprint – so you need to take that into consideration when looking at which treatments to [...]

]]> By: Patty Downing http://www.addadhdblog.com/adhd-marathon-not-sprint/comment-page-1/#comment-81707 Patty Downing Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:11:57 +0000 http://www.addadhdblog.com/?p=385#comment-81707 Hi Dr. Kenny, I joined ADHD World through this site as a parent with an ADHD child. I found this article, in particular, hit home. I've read so many books and didn't want to rush my child to medication when teachers & tutoring helped through the middle school years. We tried a med trial in 5th grade and my child did not like the side effects. Now my child is in his 2nd year of HS and after having him meet with a psychologist and follow up with a psychiatric nurse, he feels meds are not for him. He came very close to expulsion and I fear he is experimenting with drugs. Where do I go from here? I can't make him take meds as a sixteen year old? I told him I feel he might be self-medicating himself and my husband said I had the wrong approach. What is the right approach? Hi Dr. Kenny,

I joined ADHD World through this site as a parent with an ADHD child. I found this article, in particular, hit home. I’ve read so many books and didn’t want to rush my child to medication when teachers & tutoring helped through the middle school years. We tried a med trial in 5th grade and my child did not like the side effects. Now my child is in his 2nd year of HS and after having him meet with a psychologist and follow up with a psychiatric nurse, he feels meds are not for him. He came very close to expulsion and I fear he is experimenting with drugs. Where do I go from here? I can’t make him take meds as a sixteen year old? I told him I feel he might be self-medicating himself and my husband said I had the wrong approach.

What is the right approach?

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