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Sometimes I think we are going to need a bigger couch...what's new with you?
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<blockquote data-quote="Giulia" data-source="post: 521916" data-attributes="member: 14306"><p>PatriotGirls, you don't drug your child when you give him a medicine to care his ADD. You help him care with his ADD. </p><p>If your child were diabetic, it would be exactly the same. </p><p>And if you care his ADD with the right medicine, you can avoid substance abuse. </p><p></p><p>After, stimulants may not be the right class of medicine because of its side effects on your child. But you have other options than stimulants. </p><p>It's not because stimulants didn't work for your easy child and your difficult child had substance abuse with it that your easy child will be a substance abuser if we medicate his ADD. The challenge is finding the right medicine, which may not be a stimulant for your easy child. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Your "wanting to learn how to cope with his issues as you did" is not incompatible with giving medicines. </p><p>Instead, he will be more able to learn to cope with his issues if he receives the right care than if he does not. </p><p></p><p>If he struggles so much at school and you refuse to give a medicine because you fear a substance abuse, you set up the situation for a substance abuse. Instead of preventing the situation you fear from happening, you set up the situation you wanted to avoid at all cost. Paradoxical, but it's the sad reality I could see on my father, a such classical situation instead. </p><p>Of course, it's not your intention, but it's exactly what the situation you fear so much will become. If he self medicates his symptoms with substances, it's not any better, even....</p><p></p><p></p><p>I promise you that you don't drug your child by caring his ADD. The most challenging is finding the right medicine. </p><p>But don't feel like you drug your child, because it's exactly the contrary : you find the right medicine to avoid him self medicate his symptoms with more harmful stuff. </p><p>You are not a "bad mommy" if you give a medicine to your child with ADD. And it's not because he had issues with one medicine that we have no ability to find the right one <u>for your easy child</u>. The right medicine for me may not be the right one for another person.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Giulia, post: 521916, member: 14306"] PatriotGirls, you don't drug your child when you give him a medicine to care his ADD. You help him care with his ADD. If your child were diabetic, it would be exactly the same. And if you care his ADD with the right medicine, you can avoid substance abuse. After, stimulants may not be the right class of medicine because of its side effects on your child. But you have other options than stimulants. It's not because stimulants didn't work for your easy child and your difficult child had substance abuse with it that your easy child will be a substance abuser if we medicate his ADD. The challenge is finding the right medicine, which may not be a stimulant for your easy child. Your "wanting to learn how to cope with his issues as you did" is not incompatible with giving medicines. Instead, he will be more able to learn to cope with his issues if he receives the right care than if he does not. If he struggles so much at school and you refuse to give a medicine because you fear a substance abuse, you set up the situation for a substance abuse. Instead of preventing the situation you fear from happening, you set up the situation you wanted to avoid at all cost. Paradoxical, but it's the sad reality I could see on my father, a such classical situation instead. Of course, it's not your intention, but it's exactly what the situation you fear so much will become. If he self medicates his symptoms with substances, it's not any better, even.... I promise you that you don't drug your child by caring his ADD. The most challenging is finding the right medicine. But don't feel like you drug your child, because it's exactly the contrary : you find the right medicine to avoid him self medicate his symptoms with more harmful stuff. You are not a "bad mommy" if you give a medicine to your child with ADD. And it's not because he had issues with one medicine that we have no ability to find the right one [U]for your easy child[/U]. The right medicine for me may not be the right one for another person. [/QUOTE]
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