ADD and dont take Meds

[POSICORE]

cause i really dont care

but it is hard to consentrate haha

but i just dont like meds...who is with me?

 

[TerabyTe]

I'm with you.

Doping kids up with prescription amphetamines isn't a good way to treat anything.

 

[Redstiletto]

I stopped taking meds for my ADD when I was 16. So I guess I am with you too!

 

[FreedIntheLord]

cause i really dont care

but it is hard to consentrate haha

but i just dont like meds...who is with me?

I used to take meds and I am not on any now and I seem to do just fine. I think that God leads us as we need. When I try to fit in somewhere I don't belong and get going too fast for my mind, I get confused and upset and meds seem to be the answer. I also have a son with ADHD and he is fine without meds. The teachers don't think so because he tends to talk a bit too much. But, he really is a good boy and loves Jesus. Isn't that the most important thing? Of course, I encourage him not to talk in class. I remember being punished in 2nd grade for talking too much. The teacher put me in with the kindergardners and I sat with my head in my arms on the table and cried. How humiliating. But I have forgiven, but it reminds me and I know what my son goes through. He was humiliated when he was on meds and the meds made him have a bowel movement. He asked the teacher to let him go to the bathroom but the teacher said he had to do his work first. He couldn't do his work because he was going in his pants. When I picked him up from school, I couldn't believe how cruel the teacher had been and I took him off the meds. Since then, he has gotten the help he needed in special classes and he is doing pretty well now. I still think the teachers look at him as a bad boy, instead of having a learning disability. Hope I didn't go on to long here. Anybody had any of the same experiences?

 

[smooze]

cause i really dont care

but it is hard to consentrate haha

but i just dont like meds...who is with me?

IM WITH yeah ! SCREW their poison that has side effects! i say O' Natural.

 

[LetGo]

I have to disagree. That is great and fine if you can get by without meds, but to call it "posion" and "doping kids up" is a very uninformed attitude. People with ADD/ADHD have a chemical imbalance in their brain. Medicine help to balance this. Actually, it is a lack of two neurotransmitters in the brain, dopamine and norepinephine, that is thought to cause the disorder. The stimulants create release of these neurotransmitters, making more available for use by the brain.

If you take the attitude that you guys have, you might as well say, "hey forget taking insulin for your diabetes, I go 'au natural', I don't won't that posion in my body". That is crazy. If there is a medicine out there that can balance your disorder, and can help you normalize your life, there is nothing wrong with that. You shouldn't be down on people trying to improve the quality of their life, or the people around them........

 

[aChristiancalledCameron]

Apparently drinking milk makes you irritable when you have to change your schedule. Because maybe we arent meant to drink milk after infancy?

 

[FreedIntheLord]

Dear Friends: I only speak from my own experience. If others want to try meds for a while they are welcome. Lots of them are addicting, so the long range effects are damaging. Short term they do help. As I say, I used some of the medicenes and for a time they helped. What really helped was PRAYER! My pastor's and the prayer warriors prayed over me. I didn't stop the meds all at once. I just didn't need them and kept forgetting to take them. So, for today, I am ok without the meds. It all depends where your faith is and yes, Jesus can cure any of our diseases if we have the faith to receive the healing. It is by His stripes we WERE healed. And that is the faith to believe it was done on Calvary and that we can receive it for our life today. God Bless and be loved in the Lord.

 

[andrea664]

I agree with you,My niece has toi take meds for add as do i for depression, i dont like taking it but as you said it is a chemical inbalence in the brain, so the body needs it to fix this inbalence,, the same as it does for people with add/adhd.
I think that Prayer is great and to lean on Jesus as much as possible but if your body needs these meds to get through then so be it, leaning on Jesus can only make yoiu stronger right.
Thanks for you open attitude, but unfortunately you are always going to get people who tell you youre wrong, so i wanted to say to you that i share your view,
God Bless

I have to disagree. That is great and fine if you can get by without meds, but to call it "posion" and "doping kids up" is a very uninformed attitude. People with ADD/ADHD have a chemical imbalance in their brain. Medicine help to balance this. Actually, it is a lack of two neurotransmitters in the brain, dopamine and norepinephine, that is thought to cause the disorder. The stimulants create release of these neurotransmitters, making more available for use by the brain.

If you take the attitude that you guys have, you might as well say, "hey forget taking insulin for your diabetes, I go 'au natural', I don't won't that posion in my body". That is crazy. If there is a medicine out there that can balance your disorder, and can help you normalize your life, there is nothing wrong with that. You shouldn't be down on people trying to improve the quality of their life, or the people around them........

 

[Hitokiri Battousai]

I take meds for other things so i dont mind takeing meds but i dont take meds for add i just dont mind being like this i mean yeah it can get hard to do some things but thats me and i dont think i need to change that.

 

[rose4u2]

i agree with lot go. the bible says "thou shall not judge" and to say that people who take ritalin or any other stimulant to give them and their children A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE don't have a clue what adhd really is cause if they did and love their kids and theirselves they would do whatever it takes to help the situation and if that means medicinal therapy then all the power to them. i can't stand those that judge good law abiding, loving, caring, God fearing people! who love their children. do we judge those who take antidepressants or allergy pills. think about it before you post please!!! if you do fine without the drugs you are truly blessed but many don't my friends

 

[CyberPaladin]

I have done the research, I have tried the natural approach and it caused me nothing but problems. If you can do it without medication that's great but for some us that path isn't really an option.

 

[Godspeed79]

I was never allowed to take the meds. I was like 9 or 10 when I was diagnosed ADD and now they would call ADHD. It took four years to beat, but once I did it was awesome. My parents didn't even tell me until I was 16. My mom said that after awhile I just started making sense of my school work. Even though I still could not focus on one thing at home, my mind would just wander. The only problem I still have is that when i'm in an environment where there is a lot of stimuli being thrown around, I can't focus on one conversation. Like going to a restaurant with T.V.'s. All those conversations plus the TV's and trying to listen to what is going on at my table can get a little frustrating. Other than that I think it has been more of a blessing than a curse. I can be in a meeting taking notes, listening to the person next to me complain and still be able to keep up with what's going on in the meeting. I thank God that my parents didn't tell me because I would have used it as a crutch.

 

[Hitokiri Battousai]

If some one goes to school then i am sure it could be hard haveing ADD or ADHD but i am home schooled so it's easy for me to have ADD and not take meds, but i think a kids mom or dad should be able to give them meds if they think it's best for the kid.