brain can be somewhat more dangerous and difficult for the doctors. Brain cannot recover easily. Various types of mental illness can affect persons’ behavior, thinking, ability or mood. The most familiar mental illnesses for me are depression and ADHD. Those illnesses impact many people in daily life. They consider as a normal mental illness. Those can occur because of ongoing stress that person’s have in their jobs or school. One of my sister had a depression because of her study to go to University
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fraternity members were surveyed in either the classroom or another campus location. A majority of the students (55%) reported to using ADHD stimulants for nonmedical reasons. The study points out three main reasons that fraternity members reported to using ADHD stimulants for nonmedical reasons. These reasons are 1) for academic motives, 2) they did not view ADHD stimulant as a danger, and 3) they were able to gain access to these stimulant from their friends. This study shows that a high rate of
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Medicating Kids Colette Sims AED/222 April 22, 2012 Monica Santiago The Controversy of Medicating Kids There are some benefits of taking medications such as Ritalin, Adderall and Effexor for Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) and for children with Emotional Behavior Disorders (EBD), as well as some concerns. Some of the benefits include the improvement of a child’s attention span for longer lengths of time, trouble with depression and for the purpose of focusing on their
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opinion, and the person who influenced the change the most is, of all people, my children’s pediatrician, Dr. Jim Poole, the founder of Growing Child Pediatrics in Wake Forest, N.C. Having two children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) isn’t easy in the educational environment present in schools today, and through Dr. Poole’s work with my children, I have come to understand that the reason for the difficulty is that traditional curriculums that teachers have to work with aren’t
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Children with the symptoms of ADHD, commonly called (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder) often have experiences that are closely linked to one another. Children who suffer from ADHD may have extreme difficulty focusing attention, and going from one task to another in which they are basically going in all directions (Comer R. J. 2016) p. 480 Ch. 14. One of the treatments for children with ADHD is what clinicians refer to as the medication (Ritalin).
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motivate me to strive for excellence. My parents decided to have me tested for ADD and ADHD on the recommendation of my first grade teacher, Mrs. Fink. Sadly, her intuition turned out to be correct. The results came back diagnosing me with moderate ADHD. I know my ADHD influenced the decisions I made and the way I went about things in school. At my young age, I did not really care about the outcome that my ADHD was causing or the fact that success was the least of my concerns. Fortuitously, there
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challenges they face. Medications that are available to help with the disorder and how if treatment is received you can live a more successful life. I discuss the three subtypes of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Sign and symptoms of adults with ADHD/ADD. Types of medication that can be prescribed to help with symptoms. Different techniques that can be used to help cope more effectively with the disorder. I also shared my own personal issues with being diagnosed. Listed below the reference materials
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that he has had a supportive household including mother and aunt. Doctors have suspected that Jeremiah may have a touch of ADD/ADHD. ADD/ADHD has a strong genetic component, therefore it is hard to say that one single event in Jeremiah’s life caused him to have ADD/ADHD. There is some research based on the fact that babies with low birth weight may have increased risk of ADHD. The same is true for children who have had head injuries, particularly an injury to the frontal lobe. Young children who are
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Mumbles father had dropped him when he was still an egg the fathers are the ones who carry the child and when he dropped him on the freezing arctic floor, something could have gone wrong in the egg and triggered his “Happy Feet”. Though there is no direct cause of ADHD, there is a correlation or reason to believe that mothers who expose the child to toxic substances such as nicotine or alcohol. Another could be injury to the brain or some form of trauma. An online article from myafhd.com
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keep people off track. * Either from having no self control (ADHD) of attention and/or impulsivity. * Or impairs their perceptions and processing of information (SLD) either visual, auditory or kinesthetic. * Or impairs their social relatedness (Autistic Spectrum). * These conditions often prevent students from being organized, on target, attentive or focused on school work. We know that there has been a great deal of coverage on ADHD, Learning Disabilities and Autistic Spectrum on TV, in newspapers
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