Is it possible to Grow Out of ADD | ADHD Information
what happen to the "no" option?
I hate to break it down to you, but, most people who have ad/hd are plagued with it for their whole life.
Sometimes it will get worse, it did for me personally.
Many times, adults subconciously figure out "coping" teqniques to deal with their issues (check out the "caffeine" and "chocolate" threads...), which makes them seem as if they "grew out of it' , some of these techniques can be beneficial and helpful, and others can be self destroying.
Some young ad/hd adults have rude shocks entering into adulthood without proper meds; repossessions, evictions, dropping out of college, finding that they have impusively entered into destructive relationships, and other worse things can happen to a young ad/hd adults just entering into the world, without the proper treatment.
Ad/hd can range in severity. There are some ad/hders who get by with no meds at all and with some simple therapy sessions....there are others who are literally living on the streets because they are not on meds, and can not remember to make bill payments, or cannot take care of themselves, and there are a large number or prison inmates that live with untreated ad/hd.
"Growing out of" AD/HD largely depends on the individual and the extent to which this person has the problem. Not on "behavior modification" techniques. It is non-curable.
Well said Sonya!
Ketan, I'm curious as to how you 'grew into it'? Can you explain what you mean?
Thanks
Mark -
I agree with Sonya. I would have voted no, but it's not an option.If your brain is ADD-wired, it doesn't suddenly unwire itself when you hit adulthood.
Some people do however self-treat by learning coping techniques and being lucky enough to find an ADD-friendly job early in adult life. These people may seem like they don't have ADD at all.
In the Parents forum someone asked if it was possible to grow out of ADD. Well as an adult who grew into it I wonder. I wonder if My son can be treated at a young age and form a foundation that will allow him to deal with ADD without a life time of Medicaiton. I wonder if the skills I can now aquire on meds can help me when I am not able to take them?
What are youre experiences. If you have been able lower dosage that is one thing, However to say YES above you would have to actually stop the medication. Any advice or insight into specific techniques whether successful or not would be great as well.
Thanks in Advance!
Ketan
No this isn't outgrown. Some Insurance though won't pay for add/adhd meds for adults. My sister/brotherinlaws doesn't. [QUOTE=sonya_h]
bc girl, was that that ACCKK!! DON'T RESPOND TO THIS POLL, I WILL MAKE ANOTHER?? one??
that was funny!!
LOL!!!
[/QUOTE]That was the one!
[QUOTE=Tamaraw1969] I would say NO! I've had it for 36 years I think you learn to cope with things better as you get older![/QUOTE]
Rather than learning to cope with it as I got older, it seems to have gotten worse.
Which thrills me all the more to have been diagnosed. 
Perhaps NOW I can learn to cope better.I don't think that it is possible to grow out of it. Our brain cells uses our neurotransmitters to quickly, and to correct that error would mean replacing all braincells in some fashion. Although I know that some of us can learn to coop with the ADHD. I function allot better today than i did in my teenage years.This question was and is worded quite Grapefruit. Needs more lego (tm) work.ghead
< =""> I see what happened - the "no" option actually ended up as the poll question.
I did the same thing when I created my first poll. I scrapped it and made a new one.
bc girl, was that that ACCKK!! DON'T RESPOND TO THIS POLL, I WILL MAKE ANOTHER?? one??
that was funny!!
LOL!!!
I Didn't grow out if it. I doubt it is possible. The question was posed in the Parents of Children with ADD, This is a common fight between my wife and I. I think it is a part of me. . I beleive I will, at best continue to cope with it. What I have been able to do is improve my habits while medicated. but without the meds... I dont know.
There is a sliver of blind optimism (aka hope) that my sone will be able to grow with it in a way that minimizes its debilatative properties. This sliver is based on a belief that young, developing brains can be taught skills to cope.and learn techniques that improve ones ability to focus. There are successes using early intervention with speach therapy, dyslexia, and other childhood neurological disorders. That being said, I wonder how much of an effort (and whether it is worth the effort) it would take to change a child's brain? At what cost? I for one am not willing to subject my son to extreme measures. so low dose straterra is fine.
BTW I answered I don't know
Sorry for the srew up on the pole please answer I don't know for no and we can see if any one thinks this can be outgrown.
Not too sure. I never even realized the behavior I exhibited could be ADD. I kinda went hyper only on days where we would go to the county fair, etc or other new things to do. As for my attention span its always been gone 8( I still have it, just never knew it until I read more about it and took some online tests. I can honestly say it is not "modern life" as they call it. I have had all these issues since childhood.
[QUOTE=ketan1y]Well as an adult who grew into it I wonder.[/QUOTE]
by this, do you mean that you did not show many symptoms as a child? Because some of us seem to have "grown into" ad/hd because we made decent grades in school up to a certain point, and then as school started getting harder then we gradually started going down hill later on. And not all ad/hd children are "bouncing off of the walls"...lots of time the calmer ADD children go unnoticed until later in life....
But that does not mean that you did not have it at first....it just means that it was not a problem until later--- Often times adulthood brings new challenges to a young ad/hder that they have problems dealing with....And they never really had very challenging problems before-- making it seem like that they all of a sudden got ad/hd....but in reality they have always had it, and it was just never a serious problem until this time...
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I have heard that it may be possible to "cure" add through nuerofeedback. I don' know if it's true.
I would say NO! I've had it for 36 years I think you learn to cope with things better as you get older!I'm still waiting to grow out of it and I'm in my 30's. So, I'm guessing its not going to happen, at this point!In my experience, NO you don't just grow out of it any more than you just get over it. How can you just grow out of (in my case) decades of coping strategies, esteem battering and a particular neurological condition???As a staunch supporter of The Rationalist Movement, I applaud modern science with it's determination to disprove and correct many of the myths that surround many of the conditions we simply didn't understand even a short while back. Until there has been some definitive or meta work done, the current empirical evidence seems to support a unique biological/chemical basis for ADD. Cannot see why that would just change as you got older?
Ever open to being corrected if there are facts to support the correction
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