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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You sound like a pharmaceutical sales person.[/quote]

No, I'm someone who is really frustrated by fuzzy thinking on issues where the science is well understood.  With stimulant medication, the good and the bad are well understood.

I'm not one to minimize the bad --- my kid has chosen to wean off of stimulant medication as he's gotten older because he hated the side effects -- difficulty sleeping and loss of appetite.  Also, it seemed to aggravate his anxiety (or maybe laying in bed unable to sleep did that, but it ended up being the same thing - he was tired but unable to sleep and laying in bed for hours worrying about that).  I tried stimulant medication to treat my ADHD but discontinued it because I didn't like how it makes me feel.

However, I also know how hard untreated ADHD is for kids.  My kid used to get so stressed about school (as an elementary student) that he would cry and bang his head on the floor.  After starting medication, his stress went down immediately and he started to enjoy school and do well.  At that time, the benefits outweighed the side effects.  Now they don't.  That's always the calculation.  But, we understand both the good and the bad pretty well.[/quote]

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