Hi Everyone... Glad I found this site because I'm about to go out of my mind. As a short background, my son has always been what I feel was a high maintenance child from the moment he was born. However, it seemed like we were able to control it for the most part. I'd mentioned several times to the pediatrician that I felt he was high maintenance, etc. and he would tell me what do you expect? You wanted a boy, he's a boy and he would kind of laugh about it. Coming from a very long line of girls, what did I know? I had never grown up around any boys and was completely clueless as to what was typical and what was not and given that nobody else ever thought this was a problem I thought all this behavior was just phases...
In any case, fast forward to today where he has become something I don't even recognize anymore. He has become extremely defiant, curses us any chance he gets and is just completely out of control. I notice that he gets frustrated easily and usually this revolves around him getting his way. He can be sitting there doing absolutely nothing and then like out of the blue he gets this idea in his head and it's gotta be this second and his way.. Whenever he wants something and doesn't get it that's when he goes into these rages where he threatens to either kill us or himself. If he's in a "normal" mood, then these threats don't happen. Not that he was completely normal before, which I can only see now looking back, but this has gone from doable to insanity in no time at all...
Anyway, a few months ago I found out he was smoking pot. His behavior's been real bad the last 6 months. I found out he's been smoking pot for about a year and just like everything else with him he does it to the extreme. He's now hooked on it. He has alot of the symptoms of ADHD from what I've been reading and where I'm confused is that I've been reading about ADHD and pot and most of what I've come across says that smoking pot is usually helpful for ADHD and doesn't make it worse.
I'm wondering if any of you here dealing with ADHD and kids who are smoking pot could comment on it and if any of you have found the oppposite of what most of what I've been reading says and that it can actually make it worse instead of better. Plus, I'm a little confused as I thought pot was more of a depressant than a stimulant so I'm confused as to how it would make ADHD better to begin with??? Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Kacee
In any case, fast forward to today where he has become something I don't even recognize anymore. He has become extremely defiant, curses us any chance he gets and is just completely out of control. I notice that he gets frustrated easily and usually this revolves around him getting his way. He can be sitting there doing absolutely nothing and then like out of the blue he gets this idea in his head and it's gotta be this second and his way.. Whenever he wants something and doesn't get it that's when he goes into these rages where he threatens to either kill us or himself. If he's in a "normal" mood, then these threats don't happen. Not that he was completely normal before, which I can only see now looking back, but this has gone from doable to insanity in no time at all...
Anyway, a few months ago I found out he was smoking pot. His behavior's been real bad the last 6 months. I found out he's been smoking pot for about a year and just like everything else with him he does it to the extreme. He's now hooked on it. He has alot of the symptoms of ADHD from what I've been reading and where I'm confused is that I've been reading about ADHD and pot and most of what I've come across says that smoking pot is usually helpful for ADHD and doesn't make it worse.
I'm wondering if any of you here dealing with ADHD and kids who are smoking pot could comment on it and if any of you have found the oppposite of what most of what I've been reading says and that it can actually make it worse instead of better. Plus, I'm a little confused as I thought pot was more of a depressant than a stimulant so I'm confused as to how it would make ADHD better to begin with??? Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Kacee