Anxiety And Tension
Sundry Treatments For ADHD
If you have a child who has attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD for short, there are another of options
open for treatment. The most common ADHD treatments usually involve as
their biggest part the use of drugs like Ritalin or Dexedrine. These
drugs change the balance of receptors in the brain so that the child can
concentrate more. In addition the ADHD treatments should involve the use
of some counseling. I'm not talking about the type of counseling used
for emotional disturbances, although this can be a help as well. I'm
actually talking about teaching the kid some study skills and
organizational skills.
The problem is that many
ADHD treatments address the physiological part of the condition and
ignore every other part. This is a problem, because ADHD children have
trouble forming strategies to organize their lives and so they need, in
addition to the drugs, some coaching in study skills that other students
may be able to learn on their own. It is not enough just to medicate as
an ADHD treatment, because this only will solve half of the problem.
So
many kids just get ADHD treatments by being dosed with medication that
there has recently been a bit of a backlash. Many other kinds of ADHD
treatments have come out recently and received support instead of the
drugging. Some people believe that a well balanced diet itself can form
one of the most effective ADHD treatments. According to them, eating the
right foods and eliminating all junk food, sugar, and highly processed
or caffeinated stuff can form the best of ADHD treatments, without the
side effects of the drugs. Many ADD and ADHD kids hate the drugs that
they are on, and complain that they make them feel like zombies. If drug
free ADHD treatment works, why not switch?
Other people recommend
meditation techniques as ADHD treatments. They say that the best way to
treat ADHD is to take advantage of the mind's natural flexibility and to
rework the way it runs through self programming. Through daily
meditation, focus, relaxation, and an end to the anxiety that plagues
ADHD kids can be achieved, these experts claim. Although meditation may
not be one of the most popular of ADHD treatments, it should be
considered. Meditation is good for so many things – concentration, calm,
an end to anxiety, that there is no reason to believe that it couldn't
help with ADHD treatments as well.