[Liberty Wins]

While it may seem that ADD is an imaginary disorder created to give psychologists full employment, I have seen it in the children I teach (who are too young to make up non-existent symptoms).

One of the problems that the author didn't write about is that brain chemistry is affected by diet and environmental substances like cleaning products or mold. An extreme example is what sniffing glue does to people.

A brilliant pioneer in the field is Dr. Doris Rapp, who discovered a unique way to diagnose ADD in your child. If you suspect an allergy to milk, for example, you eliminate it from the diet for at least a week. Then you give the child a glass of milk and compare handwriting samples before and after. You can clearly see a big difference.

Check out her website:

http://www.drrapp.com/products.html

[webstersII]

The people who really have this problem will see that stimulants actually calm them down instead of rev them up like the rest of the population.

People that are scatterbrained and disorganized but stimulants make them even more so do not have A.D.H.D.

[thoughtomator]

While it may seem that ADD is an imaginary disorder created to give psychologists full employment, I have seen it in the children I teach (who are too young to make up non-existent symptoms).

It's called too much television!

[Kettlebelly_0]

Dear Liberty,
I was truly shocked to read your post. After I started taking medication to help with my ADD, one of the immediate things I noticed was that my handwriting got quite a bit better. No, that's not right. I changed like night and day. I used to joke that I had the worst handwriting in the world. In the first week I suddenly had very neat, legible handwriting, with no effort to change it on my part. I couldn't believe it. I started writing thing just so I could see my writing. I talked to my doctor, and he had never heard anything about this. I'll have to show him this web site.
Thanks for your post.