Comments on: Brain Steroids http://www.addadhdblog.com/brain-steroids/ 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: HopeFoodSciences http://www.addadhdblog.com/brain-steroids/comment-page-1/#comment-399354 HopeFoodSciences Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:21:10 +0000 http://www.addadhdblog.com/brain-steroids/#comment-399354 We struggled with our Autistic child until we were able to get him on a strict Gluten Free Diet. That was not very easy as the choices are limited and do not taste all that great. However we found a company called Hope Food Sciences and found some delicious items that have made it much easier. We struggled with our Autistic child until we were able to get him on a strict Gluten Free Diet. That was not very easy as the choices are limited and do not taste all that great. However we found a company called Hope Food Sciences and found some delicious items that have made it much easier.

]]> By: How to build muscle http://www.addadhdblog.com/brain-steroids/comment-page-1/#comment-126918 How to build muscle Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:56:44 +0000 http://www.addadhdblog.com/brain-steroids/#comment-126918 Good post. There are so many college kids taking ritalin because they "Think" they have ADD, but its an excuse to use it to study late at night with no sleep. Good post. There are so many college kids taking ritalin because they “Think” they have ADD, but its an excuse to use it to study late at night with no sleep.

]]> By: Fat Lester http://www.addadhdblog.com/brain-steroids/comment-page-1/#comment-85578 Fat Lester Sat, 28 Mar 2009 02:12:39 +0000 http://www.addadhdblog.com/brain-steroids/#comment-85578 Tremendous advice! Particularly the part about Starbucks or even RedBull as an alternative to taking these "brain steroids". I only wish I had discovered your site sooner before making mistakes you advise against in this post. Too late for me perhaps, but the message is important and I am a living example as to why. Tremendous advice! Particularly the part about Starbucks or even RedBull as an alternative to taking these “brain steroids”.

I only wish I had discovered your site sooner before making mistakes you advise against in this post. Too late for me perhaps, but the message is important and I am a living example as to why.

]]> By: Browser-Makers Seek Clickjacking Fix http://www.addadhdblog.com/brain-steroids/comment-page-1/#comment-64424 Browser-Makers Seek Clickjacking Fix Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:08:06 +0000 http://www.addadhdblog.com/brain-steroids/#comment-64424 ..]A new international study found that children in the US were up to three times more likely to be given psychotropic drugs as kids in Germany and The Netherlands; and the researchers suggested this was because of differences in policies on drug advertising, drug classication, and cultural beliefs about using drugs to treat children's emotional and behavioural problems...] ..]A new international study found that children in the US were up to three times more likely to be given psychotropic drugs as kids in Germany and The Netherlands; and the researchers suggested this was because of differences in policies on drug advertising, drug classication, and cultural beliefs about using drugs to treat children’s emotional and behavioural problems…]

]]> By: smallbusinessbrief.com http://www.addadhdblog.com/brain-steroids/comment-page-1/#comment-62924 smallbusinessbrief.com Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:38:48 +0000 http://www.addadhdblog.com/brain-steroids/#comment-62924 <strong>Brain Steroids | ADD ADHD Blog.com...</strong> We know that medications for ADD or ADHD help to improve concentration in those who have ADD and ADHD.Some people - even if they don’t have the condition, take these medications to help to improve their focus and productivity... Brain Steroids | ADD ADHD Blog.com…

We know that medications for ADD or ADHD help to improve concentration in those who have ADD and ADHD.Some people – even if they don’t have the condition, take these medications to help to improve their focus and productivity…

]]> By: Lynda http://www.addadhdblog.com/brain-steroids/comment-page-1/#comment-54595 Lynda Sun, 15 Jun 2008 02:08:08 +0000 http://www.addadhdblog.com/brain-steroids/#comment-54595 Responding to VICKI's comment posted June 7th 4:34pm - THANK YOU for the link to the 5 minute Attention Film. I forwarded this to all my ADHD contacts and everyone really appreciated that film. So did I! Thank you again. This is a great way to show what it is like to be us - It is from a wonderful website http://www.theattentionmovie.com/ check it out at show other people *** ADD is invisible so often it is a joke or thought to be an excuse for being a slacker. THX FOR SAYING THIS... I, too, to this day even, am plagued by negative & hypercritical self-talk fuelled by memories from my schooldays when teachers and others were ignorant about ADHD, LD's etc. As you and I and other good folks now know, IT IS NO JOKE. And it is FAR from being an "excuse for being a slacker" - and DON'T LET ANYONE tell you so! Fight this for all you're worth. How dare we (this is a collective WE) be slandered in this way! At 42, I am championing our cause in my own life and hopefully to benefit our whole ADHD community. This is such a narrow-minded, fear-driven, divided & loveless world! The public at large doesn't realize how wide a reach ADHD has in the mental health consumer population! ADHD'ers have more than one thing going on with them - and to dismiss ADHD'ers as they do - endangers all of human society - the true test of character of a society is how the strong support their weak - how the mentally fit care for those who do not share their good fortune to be mentally free of attention, organization and planning issues. *** It is essential that we educate others as to what it is like to have an invisible condition that destroys us if we are not helped but that with proper help we are amazing and beautiful and fantastically useful and productive. Often that takes meds. Same with a heart condition, high blood pressure, diabetes….. We are not different and we must keep gently restating this over and over and over. Well said, Vicki! I'm afraid I need to improve my "gentleness" in restating things over and over. Education is the key. Yes. I have often said that I wish I had a visible, physical handicap because what I have is invisible making it that much more difficult for supervisors and coworkers to understand my challenges. People are less willing to accommodate folks who LOOK normal but aren't. It is way more challenging to have an INVISIBLE disability, I'm sure of it. Because everyone expects me to perform as if I had no disabilities. All of my life, this has been an unreasonable and unfair expectation of me. As a result, my self-esteem is practically non-existent! I am furious over this fact. Dr. Gabor Mate's wisdom and nurturing,wise counsel in SCATTERED MINDS (under the book name SCATTERED, in the U.S.) is a God-send to me in this regard. Bye bye now. Lynda Wise Responding to VICKI’s comment posted June 7th 4:34pm – THANK YOU for the link to the 5 minute Attention Film. I forwarded this to all my ADHD contacts and everyone really appreciated that film. So did I! Thank you again.

This is a great way to show what it is like to be us – It is from a wonderful website http://www.theattentionmovie.com/ check it out at show other people

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ADD is invisible so often it is a joke or thought to be an excuse for being a slacker.

THX FOR SAYING THIS… I, too, to this day even, am plagued by negative & hypercritical self-talk fuelled by memories from my schooldays when teachers and others were ignorant about ADHD, LD’s etc. As you and I and other good folks now know, IT IS NO JOKE. And it is FAR from being an “excuse for being a slacker” – and DON’T LET ANYONE tell you so! Fight this for all you’re worth. How dare we (this is a collective WE) be slandered in this way! At 42, I am championing our cause in my own life and hopefully to benefit our whole ADHD community. This is such a narrow-minded, fear-driven, divided & loveless world! The public at large doesn’t realize how wide a reach ADHD has in the mental health consumer population! ADHD’ers have more than one thing going on with them – and to dismiss ADHD’ers as they do – endangers all of human society – the true test of character of a society is how the strong support their weak – how the mentally fit care for those who do not share their good fortune to be mentally free of attention, organization and planning issues.

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It is essential that we educate others as to what it is like to have an invisible condition that destroys us if we are not helped but that with proper help we are amazing and beautiful and fantastically useful and productive. Often that takes meds. Same with a heart condition, high blood pressure, diabetes….. We are not different and we must keep gently restating this over and over and over.

Well said, Vicki! I’m afraid I need to improve my “gentleness” in restating things over and over. Education is the key. Yes.
I have often said that I wish I had a visible, physical handicap because what I have is invisible making it that much more difficult for supervisors and coworkers to understand my challenges. People are less willing to accommodate folks who LOOK normal but aren’t. It is way more challenging to have an INVISIBLE disability, I’m sure of it. Because everyone expects me to perform as if I had no disabilities. All of my life, this has been an unreasonable and unfair expectation of me. As a result, my self-esteem is practically non-existent! I am furious over this fact. Dr. Gabor Mate’s wisdom and nurturing,wise counsel in SCATTERED MINDS (under the book name SCATTERED, in the U.S.) is a God-send to me in this regard.

Bye bye now.
Lynda Wise

]]> By: Reta Russell Hougton http://www.addadhdblog.com/brain-steroids/comment-page-1/#comment-54471 Reta Russell Hougton Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:48:52 +0000 http://www.addadhdblog.com/brain-steroids/#comment-54471 Pamela, the difference is both actions are ILLEGAL and these people have no idea of the potential longterm and possible permanent damage they are doing to their bodies. This reminds me of something all the adults would ask you as a kid--" If all your friends were jumping off a bridge, would you do that too?" These people are not thinking things out and making things more difficult for those that truly need these medications. I see the same thing for people with chronic pain. Just because we have these recreational users, prescription for pain medications are very stricty regulated and often the chronic pain suffers are left suffering. Pamela, the difference is both actions are ILLEGAL and these people have no idea of the potential longterm and possible permanent damage they are doing to their bodies.
This reminds me of something all the adults would ask you as a kid–” If all your friends were jumping off a bridge, would you do that too?”
These people are not thinking things out and making things more difficult for those that truly need these medications. I see the same thing for people with chronic pain. Just because we have these recreational users, prescription for pain medications are very stricty regulated and often the chronic pain suffers are left suffering.

]]> By: Pamela Egan http://www.addadhdblog.com/brain-steroids/comment-page-1/#comment-54429 Pamela Egan Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:44:13 +0000 http://www.addadhdblog.com/brain-steroids/#comment-54429 I suppose it's just a matter of time now before the Senate demands an investigation and starts indicting college students to speak before a grand jury. Sorry, I don't mean to make light of the issue. But on a serious note, besides the gambling, what's the difference between a baseball player using substances to gain a competitive advantage and a college student doing the same thing? I suppose it’s just a matter of time now before the Senate demands an investigation and starts indicting college students to speak before a grand jury.

Sorry, I don’t mean to make light of the issue. But on a serious note, besides the gambling, what’s the difference between a baseball player using substances to gain a competitive advantage and a college student doing the same thing?

]]> By: Alexis http://www.addadhdblog.com/brain-steroids/comment-page-1/#comment-54417 Alexis Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:14:05 +0000 http://www.addadhdblog.com/brain-steroids/#comment-54417 Unfortunately, like others have commented, this is not a new problem. My Mother remembers it when she was in college 40+ years ago! I remember about 25 years ago, kids my age, (8 to 10 years-old) in elementary school taking other kids Ritalin "just to experiment". Then as early as 7th grade, kids were using ADHD meds and "cross tops" (some form of Amphetamine pill with an "x" or cross on top) to cram for exams, and I'm sure they used them to get high on as well. That's why they are considered to be a "controlled substance" (also mentioned above). I appreciate reading all of the comments, and I also worry about not being able to have my ADHD meds because some idiot abused or misused the medication that allows me to function. p.s.To lisa rizzo's post on June 6th, 2008 at 4:33 pm. Please! Someone tell her to read "The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children" by: Ross W. Greene, Ph.D. If you can/will not endorse it, ADHD expert Dr. Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., author of "Driven to Distraction" does. And I personally work with "explosive children" in a middle school for youth that experience severe behavior and emotional disorders/problems. This amazing book is ADHD friendly for ADHD parents too. Unfortunately, like others have commented, this is not a new problem. My Mother remembers it when she was in college 40+ years ago! I remember about 25 years ago, kids my age, (8 to 10 years-old) in elementary school taking other kids Ritalin “just to experiment”. Then as early as 7th grade, kids were using ADHD meds and “cross tops” (some form of Amphetamine pill with an “x” or cross on top) to cram for exams, and I’m sure they used them to get high on as well. That’s why they are considered to be a “controlled substance” (also mentioned above).

I appreciate reading all of the comments, and I also worry about not being able to have my ADHD meds because some idiot abused or misused the medication that allows me to function.

p.s.To lisa rizzo’s post on June 6th, 2008 at 4:33 pm.
Please! Someone tell her to read “The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children” by: Ross W. Greene, Ph.D. If you can/will not endorse it, ADHD expert Dr. Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., author of “Driven to Distraction” does. And I personally work with “explosive children” in a middle school for youth that experience severe behavior and emotional disorders/problems. This amazing book is ADHD friendly for ADHD parents too.

]]> By: naine http://www.addadhdblog.com/brain-steroids/comment-page-1/#comment-54352 naine Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:16:27 +0000 http://www.addadhdblog.com/brain-steroids/#comment-54352 is risperdone .25 mg safe to use on kids i have an 11 yr old to be 12 in oct and just ad concerta increased to 36 mg from 27 as the dr saw little results however he is very irratable at times just normal tween behaviour not sure no testing done but started on risperdone?? is this ok to use with concerta will it lessen the effects of concerta? how long can you use risperdal i am worried re side effects as he is only a child is risperdone .25 mg safe to use on kids i have an 11 yr old to be 12 in oct and just ad concerta increased to 36 mg from 27 as the dr saw little results however he is very irratable at times just normal tween behaviour not sure no testing done but started on risperdone?? is this ok to use with concerta will it lessen the effects of concerta?
how long can you use risperdal i am worried re side effects as he is only a child

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