Comments on: Attention Deficit Disorder Medications http://www.selfhelpzone.com/attention-deficit-disorder/attention-deficit-disorder-medications/ A Place for Self Help, Self Improvement and Personal Growth Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:30:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Bill Dueease http://www.selfhelpzone.com/attention-deficit-disorder/attention-deficit-disorder-medications/#comment-1557 Bill Dueease Sat, 09 Dec 2006 22:51:51 +0000 http://www.selfhelpzone.com/attention-deficit-disorder/attention-deficit-disorder-medications/#comment-1557 I must contest your opening statement about Ritalin as a successful prescription for ADD where you wrote: “Researches have shown that when correct dosage of Ritalin is taken, it helps most, or some 70 percent, largely decrease their attention deficit disorder symptoms.” Frankly, decreasing the ADD symptoms is not a good thing to do. I have ADD, 2 of my 4 children have ADD and we have worked with hundreds of people with ADD. We recognize that ADD is a blessing to be enjoyed and enhanced and not something that needs to be fixed. Decreasing the ADD symptoms only helps the normals (the 95% of the population who are not blessed with ADD) cope with the unique behavior patterns of people with ADD, but taking Ritalin or any other Amphetamine like ADDerol or Dexadrine damages ADD people and decreases the blessing of their ADD, to conform to the desired behavior patterns of the normals. Would you have wanted Thomas Edison to slow his brain down with Ritalin to be like others? Certainly not! Only someone with ADD and the blessing to hyper focus would have the ability to try over 5,000 different possible filaments to discover the one that would create light. Can you imagine Robin Williams on Ritalin? Wouldn’t he be a real laugh being drugged down with Ritalin? Please do not suggest that Ritalin helps even more than 10% of the ADDers. Thank you Bill I must contest your opening statement about Ritalin as a successful prescription for ADD where you wrote: “Researches have shown that when correct dosage of Ritalin is taken, it helps most, or some 70 percent, largely decrease their attention deficit disorder symptoms.”

Frankly, decreasing the ADD symptoms is not a good thing to do. I have ADD, 2 of my 4 children have ADD and we have worked with hundreds of people with ADD. We recognize that ADD is a blessing to be enjoyed and enhanced and not something that needs to be fixed. Decreasing the ADD symptoms only helps the normals (the 95% of the population who are not blessed with ADD) cope with the unique behavior patterns of people with ADD, but taking Ritalin or any other Amphetamine like ADDerol or Dexadrine damages ADD people and decreases the blessing of their ADD, to conform to the desired behavior patterns of the normals.

Would you have wanted Thomas Edison to slow his brain down with Ritalin to be like others? Certainly not! Only someone with ADD and the blessing to hyper focus would have the ability to try over 5,000 different possible filaments to discover the one that would create light. Can you imagine Robin Williams on Ritalin? Wouldn’t he be a real laugh being drugged down with Ritalin?

Please do not suggest that Ritalin helps even more than 10% of the ADDers.

Thank you

Bill

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