ADHD Cures

Posted By Vic on November 19, 2009

ADHD is becoming one of the most diagnosed children’s disorders as well as being the most misdiagnosed. This article discusses one of the main reasons for this.

To many, getting the diagnosis ADHD feels at first like a life sentence. To then have comorbities added sounds like a death sentence.

But there might not be any comorbidity. The so called “comorbid” condition could be the reason for the ADHD like behavior and there might not be any ADHD at all. A young child with anxiety or depression can act ADHD like, and hyperactivity or inattentiveness can both be the result of the thyroid gland not functioning as it should.

There are various conditions, physical, medical, mental and emotional which have some symptoms that mimic ADHD behavior. The usual ADHD checklists and the ADHD DSM-IV diagnosis (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) do not differentiate between ADHD and ADHD behavior. In fact the definition of ADHD is by behavior, which also shows up in bi-polar, autism, anxiety, depression, foetal alcohol syndrome, allergies, abuse, neglect, etc., etc.

ADHD has evolved over the last century from a single condition, with variations of names based on various morbid moral defects, through a couple of brain damaged defects until it was split into ADD (attention deficit disorder) and ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). Then in 1994 it reverted to one condition, but with three subtypes. This taxanonic revolution has not stopped. A new adjustment is due in two years time. . .

Over the last decade huge advances have been made in our understanding of neurobiology and the working of the brain. What has not kept pace with our understanding of biological and electro chemical processes is our common sense.

Reviewing the latest literature on ADHD, there are some excellent papers which have been published, but unfortunately most are stuck in some oversimplified model, digging frantically for the imaginary treasure of a magical ADHD cure. This idea that there is one or only a few causes for ADHD and therefore a simple cure, preferably a magical pill defies common sense.

The BAD NEWS is that ADHD is complex. If it were not, then we would have solved these questions some time last century.

The GOOD NEWS is that if we accept the fact that it is complex, then paradoxically it becomes easier to find a cure.

The reasoning is that it is easier to find a cause in a list of 50 or 100 possible causes, than to search for a figment of some academics’ limited imaginations devoid of common sense.

ADHD Causes are mostly treatable in some way. Medication is great for a tempoary fix, but a lousy cure if the real problem is lack of self esteem, diabetes or early onset bi-polar disorder.

Studies by the American Medical Association have shown that stress is the primary factor in over 75% of all illnesses medically treated today. Stress causes ADD ADHD like symptoms

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