Of course, I have done my own studies on medication and understand the side effects, but not being a doctor I will not discuss them or give advice in that area. I Hope you understand.

I am not going to say that the other ways to treat ADD ADHD are better than medication or not, because I know that some medication has helped people a great deal; however, medication in of itself is not a cure for ADD ADHD.

My memoir discusses medication very briefly and deals with an SSRI I was once prescribed. I do not use any medication to help me with ADD ADHD. I have found many other useful methods and I do describe those in more detail within my memoir and I think those might be the answers you are looking for. However, this is not to say that I will never use medication.

To be clear, I appreciate your questions, please though talk to a doctor and get the ‘real’ answers not those which just scare you and others. Please feel free to explore more of my articles, I talk a lot about personal methods I use to help me and they do not involve medication.

Blessings,

Bryan

I have herd many different ideas on this subject, the one thing that seem’s to be at the top of my interest is that children Die from the medication, not the Desiese!

Your story is the first one from the side of the ADDers, I have never herd it explained the way you did, ADD makes more since to me coming from you a person aflicted with it, I can see a definate posibility for this to be affecting children, but I do not want to see children Die from the treatment of a desiese that does not “it’s self” kill any one!

Do you know that there are many children who are sufering wors symptoms than the ADD, there are also many children accross america who are wrongly diagnosed with ADD?

Did you know that many children across america DIE each year from the drugs prescribed to them by doctors?

Did you know that there are beter ways than medication to treat ADD. I am concerned that so many young children are diagnosed with out proper supervision, “NO DOCTOR INVOLVED” some children are given durgs ” ridalin”, these children and the parents of these children are forced to give their children these drugs, then the children die from the drug “ridalin”. The one’s who do not die are left without memories of thier childhood.

I am wondering if any one has told you the side affects of most of the medicines that are given to people with ADD?

I have found websites that claim to have beter solutions for treating ADD and ADHD, I am hoping that you will look into this for me. I am not diagnosed with ADD or ADHD. I can not use these remideis for myself to see if they work. If there are better ways to treat ADD and ADHD, then every body, more importantly “children” deserve to have safe methods to treat ADD and ADHD, I have seen much evidence that the drugs cause more harm than the desiese, the ADD can not kill you but the druggs can, and do.
I need to find a better method to treat ADD and ADHD.

I am hoping that you do not get mad at me, I am only wanting to find a better soultion to a very dangerous epidemic where the medicine is worse than the desiese.

If a better method of treatment exist then every one affected stands to gain from it’s existance.

I would appreciate your thought’s on what I have said. Paul..

Everytime I pick the book up I see something so profound, so amazing, and so true regarding my own life with ADD.

On page 137, Bryan says, ” For years I felt as though I was driving along the road of life with the hand break on, and therapy helped me release it a little and brought me some relief.”

When I read that something clicked in my head and I said to myself, “How true Is that??? And how wonderfully stated. What a visual picture that is of what it is like to not operate at your full potential for reasons, you did not create from your own wrong doings.

It isn’t our fault!!! We still have to fix it, and thats okay, but to know we didn’t cause it because were,
Rebellious
Lazy
Stupid
WE DON”T CARE ENOUGH
We don’t listen and pay attention
did I mention we don’t care enough???The list can go on.

I agree that the perspective of a person diagnosed as a child in regards to ADD, will differ some, then one who was not diagnosed till adulthood. Although, I’m certain that both will still have issues and challenges , the person not diagnosed as a child, will probably have a longer haul to recover from the pain resulting from not being understood and the fallout that comes from that. I fall into that category myself, which is why your work (Bryan) is so valuble to me. Not only do I have to live my life in consideration to having ADD but also I have the baggage from the result of zero self worth caused from having undiagnosed ADD.

Not a pity party here however. There are worse things and ADD is a gift. Of course I didn’t see it as a gift before and theres a lot of work to be done to reverse some of the damage.

Thank you Bryan for going to the effort to tell your story, write these blogs, and continue to look for the positive!!

ADD people are gifted!!!!!!!! How lucky I am. (My new affirmation.)