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Is their great future dependent on a lifetime of meds?

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"A lifetime of meds."  As if thats a terrible thing, so much worse than "a lifetime of failure," or "a lifetime of drug and alcohol abuse" or "a lifetime of failed relationships."

I have very serious depression that recurred when I stopped my medication.  So I will probably have "a lifetime of meds."  Somehow I have trouble seeing why this is such a a bad thing.  I suppose you think it would be preferable to have "a lifetime of depression."

To answer your question, many kids no longer need medication when they reach adulthood; some do.

Does it make you feel good to make ignorant judgments of other people?  Does it make you feel superior?  You would be such a failure as a parent if you had my children, you would fail them with your ignorant ideology.  Either that or you would rise to the occasion and get them what they need, putting your ignorant myths aside.

Speaking of low self-esteem, you must have that in spades if you feel the need to sit back and judge others as inferior.[/quote]
How do "many kids no longer need medication when they reach adulthood"? Do they just quit when they go off to college where they can do what they want? Are they afraid of mixing the prescribed meds with recreational ones in college? [/quote]

Well, there has been some interesting research on this at NIH (where my son is part of an ongoing brain imaging study.)  In 2012 they published the results of their research which showed that kids with ADHD have a lag in the development of certain parts of their brains.

http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/nov2007/nimh-12.htm/

Then last fall study results were published that indicated that those individuals whose ADHD symptoms resolved with age had brain structures that developed towards the normal range, whereas those individuals who still had ADHD symptoms brain scans showed continued thinning in the particular area of the brain.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-10/e-rfc101513.php

Roughly half the individuals in the study "grew out " of their ADHD and the other half did not.  This is consistent with my child's psychiatrists observation of her patients over many years.

What this all means remains to be seen, but the evidence seems to be mounting that the brains of kids with ADHD look different from those of non ADHD kids.

http://www.kennedykrieger.org/overview/news/brain-imaging-study-preschoolers-adhd-detects-brain-differences-linked-symptoms

http://ps.columbia.edu/news/new-brain-imaging-studies-pinpoint-attention-deficit-circuits

http://newideas.net/adhd/brain-function-differences-adhd

http://www.healthyplace.com/adhd/articles/subtle-brain-circuit-abnormalities-confirmed-in-adhd/

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/564917

http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=113258

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