Anonymous wrote:OP - if this was your daughter posting, I'd be reading this and be concerned. But it's you. We have no idea how much of this is your anxiety.

Your DD applied to many schools out of state. She didn't have to. She applied to schools where she knows no one. She didn't have to. Far away schools, she didn't have to.

Maybe you aren't as in sync with her as you think

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OP - if this was your daughter posting, I'd be reading this and be concerned. But it's you. We have no idea how much of this is your anxiety.

Your DD applied to many schools out of state. She didn't have to. She applied to schools where she knows no one. She didn't have to. Far away schools, she didn't have to.

Maybe you aren't as in sync with her as you think

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Anonymous wrote:I would never allow my son with ADHD to go to college that far away (and he is medicated). Rethink this idea.

Allow him? Isn’t he an adult? Why do mothers insist on treating their sons like juveniles? You want him living with you when he’s 40? Sheesh.

He can’t pay for college without me so unless he gets a job to foot the bill, I have a say in where he goes.

No one may have died from an ADHD diagnosis but people may make decisions- such as suicide that led them to die.

ADHD has co-morbid conditions such as anxiety and depression. It's usually a package deal.

Included in that package deal is executive functioning deficits. Executive functioning deficits affect not only your academics but everything else. It is related to emotional regulation. Emotional regulation is related to impulsivity, our ability to THINK before acting.

ADHD kids get in "trouble" because they may display unacceptable behavior such as not filtering what they say, as a PP had mentioned. When these kids get told all their lives that they are in trouble for whatever emotion that they couldn't regulate, it also creates anxiety because they get punished all the time. Then when they get into an environment that is less than accepting or is totally uninformed about how all these conditions intertwine, it can put them in a bad spot. Mind you, when this is all happening, depression, which is an imbalance of brain chemicals is also probably occurring.

Suicide is a decision. When decision-making skills are impaired due to an inability to to regulate emotion, and an inability to stop and think... yes all related to ADHD.

The stigma attached to these conditions make it difficult for people to get treatment.

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Anonymous wrote:When she turns 18, have her see a psychiatrist to treat her ADHD.

I would not do that. They’ll just drug her.

Do you tell diabetics not to see a doctor because they’ll just drug them?

No, because diabetes is a true medical issue.

So, am I understanding correctly that you feel psychological diagnoses aren't "true" medical issues?

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Anonymous wrote:When she turns 18, have her see a psychiatrist to treat her ADHD.

I would not do that. They’ll just drug her.

Do you tell diabetics not to see a doctor because they’ll just drug them?

No, because diabetes is a true medical issue.

This is exactly what I thought and why OP should ignore the comment.

Why? Because you disagree? No one ever died from ADHD. Try telling that to a diabetes patient.

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Anonymous wrote:When she turns 18, have her see a psychiatrist to treat her ADHD.

I would not do that. They’ll just drug her.

Do you tell diabetics not to see a doctor because they’ll just drug them?

No, because diabetes is a true medical issue.

This is exactly what I thought and why OP should ignore the comment.

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Anonymous wrote:When she turns 18, have her see a psychiatrist to treat her ADHD.

I would not do that. They’ll just drug her.

Do you tell diabetics not to see a doctor because they’ll just drug them?

No, because diabetes is a true medical issue.