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Can ritalin effects change with age and maturity?
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 186953" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Ritalin, and all stimulants, can and often do cause depression. It's speed. I was misdiagnosed (one of a million times) with ADHD and put on Ritalin. First off it skyrocketed me and I felt great, energetic, on top of the world, just FANTASTIC (probably too fantastic). But suddenly I crashed and burned and it started a depression that lasted for a year. I never touched stimulants again. You do risk causing serious mood problems with ADHD. Often ADHD/ODD is a misdiagnoses too. Very commonly it is really early onset bipolar, which would be made worse by any ADHD medication. If the child is getting depressed, in my opinion cutting the dose won't help...there will still be the high and the crash. Other disorders do tend to suddenly become more obvious as the kids get into their teens. Good luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 186953, member: 1550"] Ritalin, and all stimulants, can and often do cause depression. It's speed. I was misdiagnosed (one of a million times) with ADHD and put on Ritalin. First off it skyrocketed me and I felt great, energetic, on top of the world, just FANTASTIC (probably too fantastic). But suddenly I crashed and burned and it started a depression that lasted for a year. I never touched stimulants again. You do risk causing serious mood problems with ADHD. Often ADHD/ODD is a misdiagnoses too. Very commonly it is really early onset bipolar, which would be made worse by any ADHD medication. If the child is getting depressed, in my opinion cutting the dose won't help...there will still be the high and the crash. Other disorders do tend to suddenly become more obvious as the kids get into their teens. Good luck. [/QUOTE]
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