October 01, 2008
by Jon Bennett
If you have a child on medication for ADD/ADHD and you want to switch over to a drug-free treatment for the disorder, you cannot just suddenly stop the medicines. Your child needs to be weaned off the drugs slowly and shifted on to other treatments. Here is how to go about it:
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September 17, 2008
by Mike Selvon
When should you consider therapeutic interventions? This question haunts many people for the simple fact that intervention services aren’t generally covered by health insurance plans. Therefore, the question is not only a matter of, “Will this work?” But it is also a question of, “Can we afford this not to work?” Since counseling is so contingent upon the intervention specialist-patient relationship, it sometimes takes a few different specialists to yield results.
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August 25, 2008
by Mary Freeman
ADHD is a common behavioral disorder that affects an estimated 8% to 10% of school-age children. ADHD is not caused by poor parenting, too much sugar, or vaccines. ADHD is diagnosed approximately three times more often in boys than in girls. ADHD is a neurobehavioral disorder characterized by pervasive inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity and resulting in significant functional impairment. ADHD is linked to an imbalance in the chemicals used to regulate mood, behavior and energy level in the body.
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August 20, 2008
by sas_joylazarus
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD/ADD) is one of the serious psychiatric conditions prevalent among young persons in the preschool or in the early school years. It is characterized by inappropriate level of inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity that is present before the age of seven. A child with symptoms of these psychiatric conditions faces lots of difficulties at home and school. It is hard for the young person to control his/her behavior and impulsivity and pay attention. The helpless child might express his/her problems to parents like ‘why am I different?’, ‘why am I called a troublemaker and headcase?’, ‘why don’t I understand lots of things at school which are not difficult to other children?’ and so on. When to suspect ADHD? All children, to a certain degree, will demonstrate restlessness, impulsivity (acting without thinking), or day dreaming. These may not be typical ADHD type of psychiatric disorders. However, it is worth suspecting ADHD/ADD if such behaviors begin to affect academic performance or social relationships, or in the circumstance that the child’s behavior becomes disruptive, challenging or beyond control. The signs of ADHD could be listed in two different categories. The most common hyperactive-impulsive signs are the following:
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August 19, 2008
by Brad chase
ADHD is a neurobehavioral disorder of childhood, also with an increased incidence in adolescent and adulthood. They are affected with core symptoms of inattention, impulsivity hyperactivity.
Around 4-5 million people are affected with this disorder predominantly children and adolescent between the age group of 4-17 years with males being affected 4 times more often than females. Around 5% of the affected population belongs to the school going age group. ADHD is associated with anxiety disorder, mood disorder and learning disorder. Antisocial behavior and substance abuse is seen with increasing frequency in adolescents affected with ADHD.
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August 11, 2008
by Alvaro Fernandez
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Travel back, in your mind’s eye, to a time when you felt a healthy exhaustion after hiking, biking, playing sports.., and let you re-live that moment as vividly as you can.
Then, remember, re-experience, a loving exchange that really touched you. Pause. See your partner. See the moment. Smell it. Hear what happened around you.
Next, visualize the most caring gesture you have ever received, as full of details as possible. Who gave you that gift of caring. How you felt.
Now, travel to the most magnificent place you have seen. Enjoy the views. Pause. Listen. Smile. Appreciate.
Congratulations. You have trained your brain. As Newsweek’s Sharon Begley explained recently:
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