ADHD - "The Conversation"

[My imaginary friend is GOD]

Try the link regarding five children aged 5 - 11 and a team of a Paediatrician, Psychologist and child Behavioural Scientist try to work out stratagigies for four families. Yep One Family has TWO kids that could be diagnosed with ADHD.

First time I have ever encountered the ODD (Oppositional Defiance Disorder) as a diagnosis.

Still no answer as to just WHY these kids are presenting with these issues. Very distressing for parents and kids alike. My own son was first prescribed Ritalin then Oxy - can't remember the rest...... both he rejected as they made him depressed and suicidal. The question still goes begging...WHY are these kids presenting with these difficulties?

Wait, Oxycodone for ADHD? What the royal fuck?

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Yeah, Apergers, from my understanding, is not responsive to meds. It really sucks too how the psychiatric community had very little understanding of such problems until recently. I'm glad for your son though, seems like he has good support and is managing just fine living on his own :3

This is what I understood from the ABC- Doco http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/series/0612063

It's a combination of parenting, discipline, LOTS OF ENCOURAGEMENT, and support and these kids can make it. Mind you my baby boy is only mild (High functioning Autism)

What I am after is feedback from those of you, from different countries, who are actually going through this treatment and how you are going with it. The biggest problem I found was that the medicos didn't actually ASK the patient how they felt about the drugs.

Good to see from the above doco that at least these medicos do ask the kids how they feel.

Yeah, it says it's not available outside Australia.