Re: Office Messes: Adult ADD and ADHD

[Guest guest]

Sometimes, especially with higher functioning kids, deficits don't become

apparent enough to call it a disorder until much later, and also, as with our

son, until the end of 4th grade, a year after he had a bad case of mono in 3rd

grade we didn't really see his " issues " as anything more then being quirkly, or

highly gifted. If a child can 'regress' in 4th grade; certainly adults can too.

It is well documented that there is an adult onset CAPD.

Seems to me that when adults have concentration problems doctors look for the

underlying cause - thyroid problems, diabetes, etc. (thus a medical dx rather

then psychological, or worse: Learning dx?). Hmmm, why don't kid's also get the

medical attention they deserve? Oh yeah, because then the cost of treatment can

get put off on schools.

Best, Ann

Office Messes: Adult ADD and ADHD

Theresa,

I always get a chuckle out of these articles that say all of these disorders

have onset in childhood.

As a child, I was very focused, at the top of my class (memory like an

elephant), and a class favorite. There was no sign of ADD anywhere.

Today I feel like I'm scattered and forgetful. I don't know if being a

Mother of children with special needs and being constantly interrupted has

anything

to do with it. Since high school though, I've had one MMR and three

Hepatitis B shots and have been exposed to numerous chemicals, both in the

workplace

and in the environment.

I would be interested in seeing a study follow children into adulthood to see

if symptoms of ADD at some point develop or at least worsen.

BTW, my husband's 15 year old nephew was recently diagnosed and I'm wondering

" what took so long? " . (Are teenagers getting a series of boosters around age

14 to 15? Incidentally his family moved out of the country around the same

time.)

Vicki

[Guest guest]

For someone who moved out of the country and then had problems, I'd look at

parasites or some other environmental cause.

Liz

> Theresa,

> I always get a chuckle out of these articles that say all of these disorders

> have onset in childhood.

> As a child, I was very focused, at the top of my class (memory like an

> elephant), and a class favorite. There was no sign of ADD anywhere.

> Today I feel like I'm scattered and forgetful. I don't know if being a

> Mother of children with special needs and being constantly interrupted has

> anything

> to do with it. Since high school though, I've had one MMR and three

> Hepatitis B shots and have been exposed to numerous chemicals, both in the

> workplace

> and in the environment.

> I would be interested in seeing a study follow children into adulthood to see

> if symptoms of ADD at some point develop or at least worsen.

> BTW, my husband's 15 year old nephew was recently diagnosed and I'm wondering

> " what took so long? " . (Are teenagers getting a series of boosters around age

> 14 to 15? Incidentally his family moved out of the country around the same

> time.)

>

> Vicki

[Guest guest]

I never write that thimerosal is the only cause of ADD or ADHD. Some

individuals' AD... is rooted in genetics, eg, many fragile X folks are

ADHD as well has having other fraX traits.

The more I feel, intuit, and read -- following the IOM's CDC-purchased

(ie, paid for) report whitewashing thimerosal and, in the process,

endorsing the deliberately data-fudged " studies " by the CDC (eg, and RL

et al & Verstraeten et al revisions of the original, damning CDC

findings) -- the more I've come to accept that the adverse effects of

amalgams, thimerosal, and pollution are known and appreciated because

those adverse effects lead to chronic symptoms and ongoing sales of OTCs

and prescrip pharms.

For instance, recent, peer-reviewed, published studies have shown that

mercury (including from amalgams) induces brain lesions the same as

those found in Alzheimer's brain tissue. Political ramification, Let's

TALK solving Hg pollution while allowing weak anti-Hg-polution rules to

remain in effect for a longer period of time and while allowing adults

and children to develop increased symptoms, including what initially

appears as mild dysfunction of memory, which could easily be interpreted

as " aging " were it not for the studies showing etiologic links to

various pollutants and injectables.

mamommy2001@... wrote:

>,

>I always get a chuckle out of these articles that say all of these disorders

>have onset in childhood.

>As a child, I was very focused, at the top of my class (memory like an

>elephant), and a class favorite. There was no sign of ADD anywhere.

>Today I feel like I'm scattered and forgetful. I don't know if being a

>Mother of children with special needs and being constantly interrupted has

anything

>to do with it. Since high school though, I've had one MMR and three

>Hepatitis B shots and have been exposed to numerous chemicals, both in the

workplace

>and in the environment.

>I would be interested in seeing a study follow children into adulthood to see

>if symptoms of ADD at some point develop or at least worsen.

>BTW, my husband's 15 year old nephew was recently diagnosed and I'm wondering

> " what took so long? " . (Are teenagers getting a series of boosters around age

>14 to 15? Incidentally his family moved out of the country around the same

>time.)

>

>Vicki

>

>

For someone who moved out of the country and then had problems, I'd look at

parasites or some other environmental cause.

Liz