My personal experiences of ADHD

Wendy Howard © GoodnessDirect 2003

I have an ADHD son of 10 years old and ever since he was born we knew there were going to be problems because he didn’t sleep much. He had a lot of colic, he often had angry looks on his face, and never seemed satisfied.

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As he got older he became more and more aggressive and hyper, he just wouldn’t settle. He cried most of the time. Even though I realize that much of his behaviour was just simply "childlike", it seemed to be done with much more spite, for example, all the many times that he knew exactly what to do to upset someone (especially his older sister and younger brother) and do it over again until that person couldn’t take anymore. I found it extremely hard to take him in public places when he was between the ages of 2 and 5 as he would just throw a wobbly and collapse on the floor refusing to move. (He’s always been much stronger than me). He was diagnosed at 5 years.

My son has always had trouble at school from playgroup age, once diagnosed we started him on Ritalin. I didn’t like the Ritalin because he either sat there like a zombie or it seemed not to work . As he grew older he expressed his own concern about that horrible spaced out feeling. Eventually I asked for a slow release Ritalin, he has now been on this since June this year.

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In the past 2 academic years he has been suspended from school at least 6 times (even though we tried everything to encourage good behaviour, we tried discipline, exclusions, rewards for good behaviour and other things too, whatever we could think of, nothing worked. Things were getting serious.

At the same time as starting the new Ritalin I also started him on 3 EYE Q tablets per day. (Available from www.GoodnessDirect.co.uk) Schooling and home life have never been this easy...He also came 2nd in his maths test this month! That is amazing compared to the 14% or similar we are used to. I’m so proud.

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Wendy Howard