[was] ADHD drug deaths [now] Hi Anita + Sheri B...

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i couldnt agree more anita about how sad it is that so many children

are taking these life threatening drugs!

audreys behaviour is classified ADHD / OCD and she can suffer serious

anxiety... she is only 2.5 years old!!!

i knew right from the beginning that she was not going to be an 'easy'

child - she was never relaxed or at ease - really angry and super hard

to please - she was just very difficult - she is my Spirited Princess!

7 years of childcare exp did not prepare me for this bubba as i have

never met anyone quite like her... i love who she is and would not

change all the positive things about a child of this intensity.

everywhere i go, people are drawn to her energy, she lights up any

room! but goodness knows how she will cope, conform and excel later in

life with her extreme sensitivities?

anyway, i agree with Sher B - many of the biomedicine doctors now

believe that adhd is on the autistic spectrum and of course they see

the same improvements through diet gf/cf, soy free, corn free etc. and

appropriate supplements. we have the doctors from the Pfeiffer centre

here in sydney this week - i am going to the seminar tonight which i am

very excited about. they see autistic and adhd children as having the

same issues and have great success with both. audrey has improved out

of site following this protocol and taking the supplements!

i do understand the parents defensive attitude as you are often

judged... i do not feel like my parenting style has contributed in

anyway or created her behaviour difficulties. i think genetics

obviously play a big part - danny (her dad) had a 'chemical imbalance'

/ severe anxiety and panic attacks in his teens and was strongly

medicated till his mid twenties (when we met and i intervened!). i

also have a heap of adhd symptoms myself and some very mild obsessive

traits (dont know if my husband would agree they were mild... lol). i

only realised this when researching all of this stuff for audrey...

the penny dropped and i got why some things were so difficult for me!

anyway, all of these 'disorders' can be controlled (or drastically

improved) by diet!!! 90% of children improve out of sight with diet

intervention...

i have met many mothers who have there children on ritalin or other

similar drugs. they tell me how it has changed there child in so many

ways... focuses on one activity for a extended time, not easily

distracted, sleeping better, less hyper, holds pen and writes in a more

precise manner - the list goes on... BUT i have achieved the EXACT

same results by restricting audreys diet! sadly, their response is

nearly always the same, 'diet is so hard'. its hard at first, but its

what being a mother is about - doing whatever is nec! i had hoped to

be back at work when audrey turned one - i was a fashion / portrait

photographer for the 3 years prior to audreys birth. anyway, it hasnt

turned out that way as she is certainly a full time job!

i can not believe a parent would choose a pill before trying all other

avenues... especially when there are so many risks involved, but

everyone is so different so i do not judge them!

of course the other thing to remember is that these parents are often

misguided by their family doctor - who the majority of the time never

recommend anything but medication!!! im not even sure they are aware

that there are other options.

roweena x

On 11/02/2006, at 1:06 AM, Anita Durney wrote:

> ADHD has been on my mind a lot lately. I am babysitting two children

> after school to make extra money and both of them have problems. The

> boy (7) has ADHD and the girl (5) has selective mutism. He is on drugs

> and has been since the age of 5. Their mother is a new friend of mine

> and has the potential to be turned around so I'm slowly feeding her

> information that I know she is absorbing because she is a thinker and

> wants whats best for her children.

>   

>   Last week I attended a CPSE Workshop at my autistic son Henry's

> school. This is his last year as a pre-schooler and there is much to

> learn about the big transition soon to take place. It's so hard to let

> go of the comfortable cradle of the pre-school and send him out on the

> meanstreets of the district as a child with a disability, but he will

> be 5 soon and our time has simply run out.

>   

>   At the meeting, they talked about all the disorders/diseases that

> constitute a disability as diagnosed by the DSMIV and they are ALL

> supposedly medically diagnosed. There's something like 13 boxes with

> some of them very vaguely named that include more than one disability,

> for example *Multiple Disabilities*. Would you believe Down Syndrome

> did not have it's own box like Autism or Head Trauma to name a few. It

> fell into one of the two *catch all* boxes. When I asked the

> presenter, she didn't know why and started comparing it to other

> disorders/diseases like ADHD that fell into one of the *catch all*

> boxes too.

>   

>   This is where I got into a little bit of trouble for thinking out

> loud in front of a large group of mothers, many of whose children are

> diagnosed with ADHD. I said DS is clearly a medically diagnosed

> condition that can be easily recognised by the doctor withoput setting

> up an evaluation for a psychologist or psychiatrist to test using the

> DSMIV. ADHD is NOT a medically diagnosed condition. Several women

> turned to look at me and angrily said YES it is. I wanted to ask them

> what medical diagnostic test is being used to prove ADHD is a disease

> opening the door for the AAP to recommend drugs as your FIRST line of

> treatment. There can be no disease without a pathology. Where's the

> pathology? ADHD, unlike DS is diagnosed almost always by observation

> and by how the parents and teachers view of the child. This is so

> unreliable and leaves so much room for interpretation that the margin

> for error resulting in misdiagnosis is HUGE.

>   

>   The DSMIV is written by the a major Pschiatric Association and

> enforced by the AAP, but is not the bible on diagnosis and leaves out

> much of the family history or events that could explain the etiology

> of many behaviours that should be dealt with according, not blanketly

> with drugs.

>   

>   Forgive my rant, It's just that I get a heartache knowing that so

> many children are being damaged, and in the cases below dieing due to

> being force fed those psycho-stimulant drugs that can put their little

> hearts into cardiac arrest and do NOTHING to help the real problem.

> The worst part of the crime is that their own parents are leading them

> to this demise.

>   Anita :~(

>

>

>   

>   Randice <randiceaj@...> wrote:

>   The public has a right to be fully informed.

>

> In his testimony, Dr. Baughman stated:

>

> The following children are no longer hyperactive or inattentive--they

> are dead. 

> Between 1994 and the present I have been consulted, medically or

> legally, formally or informally, in the following death cases.   

>

>

> Hall, 11 y.o., Canton, OH.  " ADHD, " Ritalin,  cardiac

> arrhythmia.

>

> , 13 y.o., Clawson, MI. " ADHD, " Ritalin, cardiomyopathy.

>

> Macauley Showalter, 7 y.o. Ritalin and 3 other psychiatric drugs.

> Cardiac arrest.

>

> Neal 13 y.o., Chattanooga, TN.  Ritalin, cardiomyopathy

>

> Randy Steel, 9 y.o.  San , TX.  Dexedrine + several drugs,

> cardiac arrest.

>

> Cameron Pettus, 12 y.o, Austin, TX. Desipramine, hyper-eosinophilic

> syndrome. 

>

> See: http://www.adhdfraud.com/frameit.asp?src=commentary.htm

>  

>

> Contact: Vera Hassner Sharav

> 212-595-8974

> veracare@...

>  

>  

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