Day 2 | ADHD Information

It is so nice to have friends to share the good times with!

Resistance suggested I share Day2, so I will. Actually, I will continue Day 1.....

Yesterday I started with 10mg Ritalin LA. I became aware of the positive effects after about an hour and a half.....and that feeling of being awake and alert continued for about 2 hours. I was a bit disappointed...but I didn't come all the way down, which was good. I thought I might try 20mg the second day and see what happened.

Today I woke up feeling a bit 'hungover'...bleary-eyed (not unusual) and with a mild headache) I took 10mg at 7:15am, and then another 10mg at about 9:00am. It all 'kicked in about 9:30. Since I experienced a 'peak' yesterday, I figured I'd stagger the doses a bit to see if I could draw the peak out.

It feels great to be able to concentrate, to be still. I hadn't realized that, altho I don't have the hyperactivity, I never actually sit totally still...until now! I'm just realizing that usually I'm always making subtle movements with one part of my body or another, or my eyes constantly shift slightly.

I have read that ADD/ADHD might create a state where the individual uses the constant activity, and shifting thoughts, in order to stay awake! For me, I think that's a distinct possibility.

If I can get past the effect that ADD has had on my life, I can appreciate what a wonderful and mysterious thing the mind is! My doubts about whether I really have ADD have vanished; now I wonder where this mind will take me, now that I've downloaded the upgrade! Will there be programming errors...you bet! Will it crash from time to time....um, probably.

Thanks for all your support...........................Joyce

My sons 2 days back have been horrible. His issue is the peers who belittle him. I told him find ones who are not this way. They will do this in front of me. He has little school friends. Scouts is where he is treated the same and said only worry about those who will like you for you. Those kids deserve a quit smacking if you ask me. Strattera has opened his emotions but he cries from their responses. If the school problems aren't resolved he is out of public school for good. No kid should have to go thru this. Home school groups can replace the social area plus most of these kids are better behaved from what I see. I hope Marshall arts will also help.

[QUOTE=The Resistance!] Not to be a damper, but....
Be aware though that life is still a trial, it is just easier to deal with it now.
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He He...I've found that out already. Tho I can concentrate better at work now, it's still a sucky job!

I'm convinced we need to be "big picture" and creatives at work.
Others love the details, meeting the deadlines.
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It is so nice to have friends to share the good times with!.

Thanks for all your support...........................Joyce

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That is wonderful Joyce!

My son we worried a lot about as being too nice, always agreeing with others, letting others have their way, not complaining.

A 1,2,3 punch of martial arts, bass/electric bass and playing in a band at the age of 12, and football changed him for the better we think.

Luckily all three are things he wanted to do on his own and he enjoys very much.

He is still very nice, but far more aggressive in a good way, a way 12 year olds need with their peers.

He is a deadly match in sparring in karate. I was really rather shocked to see him throwing punchs on a kid during football practice but the other kid started it (he said) and that kid got into many more fights and had to leave the team. He never bothered my son again and this was NOT like him, fighting I mean.

He also follows my advice during games in that he lets his play do his trash talking answers. When another player taunts him that player gets blocked longer and harder usually winding up ion the ground. Also very unlike him formally.

We no longer worry about him being too passive. He is also very large, trained and in shape for his age which helps :-)

He also very much dislikes bullies and other kids picking on other kids.

Is it just me or are the really large guys often the nicest?

I've said this before, but never tire of saying it. He is a fabulous young man.
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It is so nice to have friends to share the good times with!.......................Joyce

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It is nice to hear it too, Joyce.
Not to be a damper, but....
Be aware though that life is still a trial, it is just easier to deal with it now.

My son was picked on all through school, and he had great difficulty with the emotions that would crop up in these attacks and would get to the edge, snap and strike out at them and then end up being punnished at school for fighting.

So in the 9th grade, we signed him up for martial arts (karate). My main reason at the time was that when the other kids learned he was training in karate, they would stop harrasing him for fear he would clobber them. Well, it didn't work out that way. They didn't change, but my son went through a major change in attitude. The insults from his peers began to roll off his back like water off a duck, and while the karate conditioned him physicaly, more importantly it conditioned him mentally. From that point on, the only physical confrontations he had were the result of anger on the part of the trouble maker's frustration over their inabillity to rattle his cage. When they couldn't push him with words, the would try to push him physicaly, but eventually he was no more fun to pick on and they left him alone.

Martial arts gave my son emotional stabillity and from what you've related here daniel's mom, I think its the best thing you could do for him.