Thanks for posting - my son was (finally) diagnosed with ADD as a 30-year old, he had three consultations.
He is on a very low dose of a Ritalin-type drug and told me for the first time in his life he’s able to calm and slow his mind down and concentrate on his work without getting constantly distracted by anything and everything. For him, it seems to work.
My son is the same age and has the same condition (plus others) - and starting a few years ago Adderall produced the same result (he’s currently a college junior, majoring in cyber security and has a 4.0 GPA). He’s not lazy and “beating it out of him” would have been a simpleminded non-solution. Is it over-diagnosed in some people? Certainly. Is it a real disorder in others? Certainly.
Thanks for the reply.
My son works in IT Security and does very complicated coding that takes hours of concentration on the smallest of minutia. He says he’s worked on the smallest of details for 18 hours at a time before he solves them.
The ADD drug allows him to do this.
His elementary school wanted to put him on drugs when he was in the 3rd grade b/c he didn’t want to sit and color or sit for story time. We said NO at that time. Didn’t seem right to drug up a small kid so he could color or listen to stories. Glad we didn’t go there.
Now he was able to make an informed decision after researching the issue and speaking to doctors he trusted.
He says his life is 100% better.