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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m an adult who takes meds. My 7 year old isn’t diagnosed yet but I suspect has ADHD. We just read “the explosive child” at the advice of her psychiatrist. One point in that book is sometimes meds are needed to enable other strategies (ie better sleep, meditation etc) to have any chance of working. It’s most too hard to implement those skills without meds first sometimes. You could try them, love them, and continue your child on them or you could try them like you would crutches - a temporary support for a medical problem. [/quote]

agree. The meds make it possible to actually work on developing other coping strategies such as tips on executive function, calming themselves down and self-regulating, social skills (no longer interrupting!) etc.    A good analogy is something a therapist told my husband when he was experience severe depression in his 20s but was scared to try meds- she said its like he is digging himself into a hole and its only getting deeper. the meds put a "floor" on the hole so he can't go down any further. This frees him up  to do the work with the therapist.[/quote]

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