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ADHD Treatments
I have had ADHD
since I was very young, and have tried all of the usual ADHD
treatments, but I just can't seem to get completely over this
condition. This is despite the fact that I am 23 years old, and in most
respects, quite successful in my life. Still, it is hard for me to sit
still, hard for me to organize either my thoughts or my actions, and I
find myself still daydreaming away large bits of my day when I really
would rather be getting things done. None of the ADHD treatments I have
tried have done the trick, despite the fact that I have tried them all.
Because I did well in school, despite my occasional acting out, no one
diagnosed my ADD until I was about twelve years old. They might have
thought that I had behavior problems, but they didn't even consider
that ADHD treatments might help at the time, since they figured it was
just a matter of acting out. It was actually my friends who diagnosed
me with having ADHD. You see, they had ADD and ADHD themselves, and
could spot one of their own. I went to the doctor, and he put me on
Ritalin, as was popular at the time. I hated the Ritalin, as I would
come to hate all of my ADHD treatments.
The problem with Ritalin is that it turns you in to a zombie. This is
the most common complain among people of all ages going through ADHD
treatments that involve this drug. You feel stoned all the time, and
not in a happy way. It becomes hard to interact with other people, or
to do anything besides what is in front of you. When I began stopping
my ADHD treatments and refusing to take the Ritalin, my parents
realized that they needed to try alternate therapies.
After that, they tried everything, and although some of it did make
things a bit better, none of it really did the trick. They tried
nutritional therapy ADHD treatment, where I avoided all processed foods
and caffeine, and I guessed that helped a little, but the ADHD never
really went away. They tried meditation, which I hated – how
many people really want to spend an hour every day in their teens
sitting perfectly still? They even tried Neuro-Linguistic programming
and therapy, but I just started to hate the therapist after a little
while, and it never went anywhere.
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