ADHD Treatment 1

Until I found the methods and medications that worked for me and me alone (which means I will not be dispensing any all-knowing advice, here), I researched, studied, and investigated the many ADHD treatment possibilities available to me in 2001. I had been the outcast, the freak, the truant, the pest, the unruly one, the class clown, and in general, the wild one of every classroom, social gathering, and family event and circumstance for forty years. (Yes, I was just as “bad” if not worse at forty.)

I spent more time in the principal’s office in grade school than all the students in the school combined. I got tossed out of more classes in high school than my face had zits. I slept with [really] strange men I met while I was hitchhiking in blizzards from Plymouth State College in New Hampshire to Provincetown, Mass. I crashed cars (on purpose), I had cars towed for lack of appropriate paperwork, and had cars repossessed for lack of organized check and other budgeting and accounting. I over-achieved in college and was under-estimated and over-admonished at jobs.

And the harrowing and horrific lists and symptoms go on and on. In fact, for the usual ADHD “victim” (though I now see us as blessed), approximately sixty-nine symptoms or maladies afflict us at any given time—at any minute, second, or millisecond we interrupt; we blurt; we intrude; we mis-read social cues; we are dis- (under-) or over-organized; we fight time and timing; we can’t wait, sit still for long, or rest and relax as “normal” people do; we are, as the blanket observations have it, irritable, impulsive, hyperactive, and defiant. We need (and often for many years go on needing) diagnosis and subsequent ADHD treatment to help us regulate or self-regulate.

Luckily for those of us who do [eventually] get diagnosed, there are attentive, conscientious, qualified, super-intelligent specialists in the field (and professionals in medicine in general) who have developed ADHD treatment methods, procedures, approaches, and medicines. Some of these are as follows:

Article (Part 1): ADHD Treatment 1

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