As a young child/teenager I thought "hmmm...... why would a parent want to give this stuff to their own child" I just didn't get it, but as I got older I seem to understand why. Shockingly parents have different answers and explanations for doing so. I've herd stories from other teenagers that they were put on ADHD medicine in order to make them lose weight. I've herd parents say "in order for them to stay out of my way, calm them down, or even just because the 'TEACHER' recommended something needed to be done". The list can go on and on and on. But what is the right answer? Did you as parent ever consider the child, not only your benefits for this problem? With some situations I feel like giving your child medication is the easy way out. As a teenage advocate for teen ADHD awareness I feel like medicine at a young age harms a child. Im saying that regardless of how good the medicine works for a child , they never really get to experience being regular.I also find that a-lot parents tell their child there not like the other kids. I also think as they get older, some kids have a-lot trouble finding themselves transiting over from elementary school to middle school. Basically becoming who they were ment to be. When I say that I also mean from a social aspect point of view. The middle school years for a child/young teenager is very important. During this time and century "PEER PRESURE" is huge factor for young teenagers. Such as Social Groups and Social Status. Social groups and social status determines good health, adaptation and building that needed common-sense to make it in society these days. Multiple of the teenagers I meet that have been on ADHD medication since elementary school have no "Common-Sense"! With having medicine controlling your every move through out the day, dont you think its kind of hard for someone to find where they "fit-in"? I will give more tips on "finding yourself" in some future blogpost. But for now I want to know what do the parents think? Is this even important to them. For more understanding of what Im saying, you guys should watch the "MTV"- true-life episode "I take aderall"http://youtu. determines/B2CTaZh-Wp4. When seeing this episode premier on MTV, it felt so GOOD that someone else out there was similar to me! After watching this episode, I feel that parents influence the bad outcomes of there child due to the mistakes they made their child conform to back in their younger years. I thought maybe I could sit down my parents and have them watch the True-Life Episode, just to show them some of the symptoms I felt. The emotional distribution I tried to explain to them over and over again! Tuhhh! That never worked. But overall I want to know feedback on this topic. Please feel free to comment! Thanks guys
