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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 116847" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>I agree with smallmom. Mental health to me trumps academics. I also wonder if you realize that people with mood disroders tend to have memory problems and strange, uneven cognitive problems--not all--but many. I just found out myself because I have had a rather severe mood disorder since childhood and always had a poor memory and a high IQ, but inability to perform to my level. I guess they are just now finding this out. THAT alone can lead to frustration and acting out, and I say this as having first hand experience. Focus issues are as much or more an issue with bipolar/mood disorders as it is with ADHD and often ADHD medications just make the mood disorders worse. Straterra can cause worse problems--racing thoughts, for example, childhood mania, etc. If that were my child, I'd forget about ADHD and use other interventions to help with focus--we've done that very successfully with my autistic spectrum son. Between his Special Education tacher and his aide he has pretty much learned coping skills to his trouble with focus.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 116847, member: 1550"] I agree with smallmom. Mental health to me trumps academics. I also wonder if you realize that people with mood disroders tend to have memory problems and strange, uneven cognitive problems--not all--but many. I just found out myself because I have had a rather severe mood disorder since childhood and always had a poor memory and a high IQ, but inability to perform to my level. I guess they are just now finding this out. THAT alone can lead to frustration and acting out, and I say this as having first hand experience. Focus issues are as much or more an issue with bipolar/mood disorders as it is with ADHD and often ADHD medications just make the mood disorders worse. Straterra can cause worse problems--racing thoughts, for example, childhood mania, etc. If that were my child, I'd forget about ADHD and use other interventions to help with focus--we've done that very successfully with my autistic spectrum son. Between his Special Education tacher and his aide he has pretty much learned coping skills to his trouble with focus. [/QUOTE]
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