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Khione
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Khione asked in HealthMental Health · 8 years ago

Should I get ADHD medication?

I'm a 16 year old girl and was diagnosed with ADHD only a few weeks ago, and was given the option of meds, so it's completely up to me if I take them or not.

I have huge issues with concentration (which weirdly is still just within the lowest normal range) and impulsivity and boredom and the medication would help that.

But I'd likely only get to be on the medication until I'm 18 unless it gets worse

Should I get it or not?

I know it's up to me etc etc but I really don't know if it's worth it to be improved for a bit more than a year then probably have to go back to no meds

Update:

the medication would last for 8 hours i'd take it in the morning and it would basically improve my concentration

the meds would be nothing with depression i didn't get meds for that cause i just about managed but i'm better with that now

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
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    I would say stay away from them. They are highly addictive and will not heal you so thatwhen you stop , if you can stop , you will still have the problems left.

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  • 8 years ago

    I'll start with the medication - What i've learned about medication is that they act as a transient barrier between the mind and body - so they temporarily prevent you feeling depressed. I learned this from someone who had been on a-lot of different tablets for some years. Ultimately they don't solve the core of the problem which is usually identification with form. The western world has become too reliant on the quick-fix notion. Doctors prescribe them too easily and quickly, and people are on them for years with no fundamental change. Some people can become addicted to them which is digging a deeper hole rather than dealing with the problem - the paradox is that although they are intended for getting rid of the problem, they can make it worse. I haven't heard of a story where a person had been on medication then become well again as a result, then gradually coming of the medication and stayed well... they maybe cases where this has happened, but i haven't come across any.

    Now with your issue about concentration, ADHD, impulsive behaviour and inertia - ADHD is just a label given to a series of 'symptoms' which result from anxiety. What wrong is that something is missing from your life - that something is the realisation of who you are. Who you are is awareness - this is different to thoughts and emotions which is form. Who you are is formless. Now inertia is a form - so you can either sit there identified with your mind (form) saying "i'm so bored its killing me", or you can observe what it feels like to be what we have labeled 'bored'. So dis-identify from your mind, realise who you are and a sense of fulfilment, joy, happiness, wonder and creativity will return to you.

    Your concentration is not very good because concentration implies that your full attention is on the task in had - when you are identified with your mind, all of your attention is being absorbed by thinking and so there is no awareness there; hence your unable to concentrate. Thinking is processing information, awareness is the alert attention without which thoughts wouldn't exist, and creativity wouldn't be possible.

    Hope this helps.

  • 8 years ago

    I too have problems concentrating and have you played the new CoD game yet? It's totally off the hook how The Voice ended the other night I saw a meteor storm.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    There is no such thing as ADHD you illiterate piece of ****.

    Source(s): My mothers friends daughters friends cousins son who knew charles manson who happened to know garry glitter.
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