Comments on: Psychotic Reaction: Treating ADHD In Maine

By: gayrockhardabsman

gayrockhardabsman — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 04:54:39 +0000

The term autistic has been misused to describe persons with anything from cerebral allergies and schizophrenia to attention deficient disorder and post traumatic disorder. Sadly, few doctors and educators understand true cases of autism to make a correct diagnosis. So they go with the latest media driven flow. Pick and choose from a broad and ever expanding spectrum. Or worse, they guess. The hallmark traits of autism are: sensitivity to sounds, specific tastes in food/drink, strange body postures, repetitive behaviors, inability to control emotions or excitement, poor reasoning skills, needs routines, resists changes, sense of direction and memory better than other skills, thinking based on association, not reasoning, once distracted by olfactory, visual or auditory stimuli, they become preoccupied. This is markedly DIFFERENT than ADHD, in that ADHD presents as easily distracted by stimuli, BUT, the person bounces focus from one thing to another. ADHD people don’t stay hyper-focused or fixate on something. That is what you will see a truly autistic person do. Fixate. Appear to be in a world of their own. Not wanting to play or socialize with others. Not wanting to play or socialize with others is only a hallmark trait of autism when it ALSO involves, not willfully choosing to ignore or not play with others. A truly autistic person doesn’t choose to not play or socialize, it’s simply who they are– not to play or socialize with others—is in itself the core of autism—within oneself. They may show signs of affection or social skills, but it will almost always be brief. FYI: jenny mccarthy’s kid was never autistic, is not autistic. Much like the mother who wrote the book about “tony” the allegedly autistic kid she cured, yeah right. Turned out “tony” had a rare cerebral allergy to milk…he was never autistic..and yes, years from now we will all know that McCarthy is yet another FRAUD who poses as a mother of an autistic son who was cured, but the truth is, he never had autism…..what a racket, what a scam , what a disgrace and slap in face to all families who are dealing with authentic autism as you can see on youtube when you type in autism and seizures or autism and self injury…..

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:36:28 +0000

I recommend you find a ADHD doctor that monitors the amount of drugs taken. Our son uses Dallas ADHD and they monitor usage closely. This I find is one solution.

- Tom

By: weight loss tips

weight loss tips — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 09:09:45 +0000

Dear friend ,
this is very sensitive issue to deal,
we should take care of childerens by not giving them antipshocotic drugs ,
we should solve the basic problem

By: Joe Sober

Joe Sober — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:46:59 +0000

I just discovered your blog and noticed that the last post is over a year old, since then things have changed a little.
I noticed that there is more folks out there protesting the excessive use of drugs in the whole population.
Children are particularly targeted by Psychs and pharmaceutical industry as these are their future income and as statistics show once on ‘meds’ these children become more dependent on their drugs on and ever increasing number just to counteract the myriad of symptoms these create.
Perhaps you will find more links and agreement in my blog http://x-addict.blogspot.com/. You are right, psych drugs are the scourge of humanity.

By: Beli Mawr

Beli Mawr — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 04:54:32 +0000

Just to let everyone know, I helped make sure my honey’s youngest, who was dx’d with ADHD, not have to take meds for it. He has a high metabolism, so we ixnayed caffeine and candy if he’s off, made him exercise, eat a lot of vegetables and put him on a high fat diet. He’s doing fine-and not having to smoke pot or do drugs to get thru life, either.

Thanks Alison, you’re a great mom for willing to love your kid enough to take care of your son, instead of letting eli lilly or J&J pharmaceutically babysit him! A good parent is there for her kids, and you are a great parent!

By: Beli Mawr

Beli Mawr — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 04:50:51 +0000

• Hyperglycemia and Diabetes Mellitus: Monitor glucose regularly in patients with and at risk for diabetes

This is ridiculous. I know from having Type 1, by the time the elevated Bg’s occur, it is already too late-you will have it permanently, without any way in this country to reverse it. If you lived in the UK, you can get an injection/operation originally developed by a Korean Dr in California that will fix it, for free. But Eli Lilly, the maker of Zyprexa and not coincidentally the largest marketer of insulin in the world, prevented the FDA from being allowed to do it here.

Alison is right too-most people treated with these meds will forever be pretty much worthless to society after taking them, or taking alcohol or drugs secretly to cope.

By: Alison Doran

Alison Doran — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:48:21 +0000

My son was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 7. I refused to accept this diagnosis and would not have him put on drugs. He had some difficulty in school and was slow to learn to read. But by the time he was a teenager he was voraciously reading anything that interested him. Now he is 22 and has no problem remaining employed.
Contrast this with a man I know who was diagnosed and drugged at the same age. He dropped out of school as a teenager and hitchhiked across the country, eventually settling down to become a drug dealer. Whenever he tried regular employment, he wouldn’t last more than a month. I once gave him a pamphlet to read but he pushed it away, explaining that he was learning disabled and couldn’t read. The last time I saw him he was living in his car and hiding out from the police, who had warrants for his arrest.
Diagnosing and drugging children does a disservice not only to the child, but to families who have to deal with their children and also to society in general, when the results produce human beings who can’t cope with life.

By: Salmon

Salmon — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:56:21 +0000

Margaret,

I saw an ad on TV last night for Abilify for Unipolar Depression. I just checked the FDA database (Drugs@FDa) and cannot find any approved indication for depression. The last approval of a new indication was back in August. It’s possible it has been approved in the past few days, but to me this is uncontionable to run the advertisements before the approval information and the labeling on how to dose and use a drug is available, even if it is approved. For all I know the dose could be lower, etc..

The FDA Amendments Act of 2007 was supposed to take care of things like this and have approved labeling available within a specified time frame after approval so there wouldn’t be this kind of problem. If this is how well the FDA does when they’re under scrutiny and when it’s so easy to do and when it’s important to drug companies to get it right. Then this says a lot about the competency of FDA management. I hope people will send an e-mail to Sen. Grassley and have him look into the true story and how something like this could happen.

Salmon
November 23, 2008

By: Bell Ringer

Bell Ringer — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:02:51 +0000

Who would make a drug like this? And then market it solely for profits, with all these side effects? They must be crazy! Wait…I think I just answered my own question.

By: Rena Goodrich

Rena Goodrich — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:22:56 +0000

You know it’s extremely bad when even the FDA is objecting!