Same goes for praying or providing animal sacrifices to the ADD fairy: No side effects, and very cheap! Works just as well as homeopathy too!
anyone use Vyvanse? The doctor has suggested my son start taking this. He is on the spectrum and also has ADHD? right now he takes nothing and has a hard time focusing in class and while doing school work. I am against the long term use of any medication.
go to the website on the previous post and try the dietary for 2 -6 months, see if you get results ...doctors only cut and medicate... i find the fish oil makes a big difference, if you think he's too young for it ,try salmon twice a week, read the health benefits of walnuts for the b vitamins, make him a trailmix and telll his teacher to let him snack between meals.....search the web for dr oz and dr amen on nourishing the brain
I think that a solution for this would be that after a while, when you gained more experience, you can automate or semi-automate your trading. But still it's a very long journey.
The entire notion of ADHD is in my opinion fraudulent. A few random points. (to lazy to form a coherent, systematic essay) -The notion that individual children should be bent with drugs to the statist/industrial education complex is immoral and anti-american. -In my opinion the new, feminized, touchy feely form of education DOES NOT SUIT a large number of spirited young men who we now label and attempt to FORCE to be, "good little boys" (act like girls, in other words). -Many ADHD boys need a more vigorous, spirited education that allows for more time (MUCH MORE TIME) exploring ones personal aptitudes and interests. -Kids today are WAY TO LOADED DOWN with useless, garbage busywork/homework that amounts to nothing more than day-care assignments. This is precisely what the ADHD child CAN NOT TOLERATE. What is needed: More time in sport, chess clubs, tinkering with science experiments, chemistry sets, computer programming, free form (objective centered vs. "follow instructions) science projects, etc. Young socalled ADHD boys, more than others, need to test themselves by taking risks. We need more forums to allow this to happen in a productive way. The safety obsessed, feminized, pussified society is what has changed. Boys have not changed!!! -Lets make school interesting by offering cash prizes! Fire 1 useless administrator at each school and use the money to fund a bonus pool for various contests in each subject. -The DRONE education suited to the majority is very harmful to the more creative, energetic, self-directed minority who are often labeled ADHD. -If the kid is just flat out hyper it could very well be his diet. Refined sugars can be like crack cocaine for some kids who seem particularly sensitive to them. -The notion that EVERYONE needs the same education is itself a fraud that does not take into account the wide variance in aptitude and interests. -I have no doubt that I could not teach an intelligent high school (or even younger) person the fundamentals of trading. Why must we continue to allow the education monopoly to dictate WHEN people are prepared to do things? -The answer is not progressive "Feel good" education. The answer is in allowing the ADHD kids to FOCUS and SPECIALIZE on their natural talents.
Many spirited girls are labeled ADHD, girls too spirited education that allows for more time (MUCH MORE TIME) exploring ones personal aptitudes and interests. In general, schools train students to become a cog in the wheel for the big industrial/military complex, this has been so since the industrial revolution. Fraudulent or not, ADHD is a condition that makes it hard for one to fit into many institutional situations. The Underground History of American Education http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/toc1.htm http://www.sott.net/articles/show/2...ks-Out-Against-Schooling-in-Graduation-Speech
Good Post!!!!!.. I had ADHD as a kid and took medication at times.. I am now 36 .I am still pretty hyper but not like i used to be.. But I think ADHD is a gift to me.. There is no way I could be a successful trader and investor if I was so called normal. ha ha.. How could I follow 4 monitors+, listen to the trash on CNBC and trade my account and others if I did not have ADHD?? Once in a while I do take Ritalin.. But not sure it has any effect on me .. Being a trader is at times the best job in the world and at times the worst.. Always plays with your mind and emotions.. And u have to block out any personal issues in your life.. Being smart is good and all, but its the ones that can not let there emotions get in the way that make good money and are in this game forever.. One has to have a very short term memory at times to be ok and do well at this job.. I can tell people a million stories if I would of just of done this or that with trades that losses would not happen or more money would of been made.. It eats at me.. But I get over it and move on.. Best to just go out have a few drinks with friends and pick up some girls.. Always does the trick for me..
My neighbor is a neurologist and his 19 yo daughter takes it, she has dramatically improved her ability to focus at work and in school. The fact that you, for some reason, are against long term use of medication should have absolutely no bearing on whats best for him. You are not a doctor. I know a few adults that take ADHD medication for life bcuz its the only way they can be truly productive in life. Ppl with ADHD have brains wired differently and they're brains will ALWAYS be like that. So pleeez, with all due respect to you as a father, for the sake of your son, keep your personal opinions out of it , and let the specialists(neurologists) treat him with what will help him lead a more focused, productive life.........even if it means him taking meds for the rest of his life.