Re: Are doctors more informed about ADHD now?

[Anonymous]

Thank you for your post. It sounds like you have been through quite the journey. Kudos for you for being so involved in your child’s education. I think having such aware and caring parents is half the battle for ADHD children. It probably makes a huge difference too when teachers know you and know your child better.

I want to do everything I can for my daughter, and it is so helpful to hear from people who have already been through it all. Good to know about the IEP -maybe I can include my daughter’s interests more than with the regular curriculum. I will take your advice and have her assessed through the medical system if I can at her age. I figure the younger she is when she is understood, the better.

I am assuming when you say GTA you are meaning Greater Toronto Area? I am not in the area, actually way out west in BC. I think there are doctors out here for children, and I hope so much that they are reasonable. If not I may have to travel East and I will be asking who your doctor is! In my experience and from what I have heard it is easier to have children assessed than adults b/c there is a shortage of doctors who treat adult ADHD. I am not sure why this is the case, but maybe it is because ADHD is so misunderstood and widely unkown to many. I myself can go through many days feeling fine, but then sometimes I just get so tired of all of the things I have to do and then I get behind and overwhelmed, and at those times I wish I had an option of medication.

I think you are correct that this process will make my daughter and I closer; I have been trying to give her high doses of positive behaviour management after reading/watching Dr. Jain talk about how great it is for ADHD children and I love to see her so happy and pleased with herself. She told me she knew I was proud of her, and that it made her happy, and I almost cried with relief. I just hope I can keep up with her and keep remembering the positive management. I was already doing rewards with her: her dentist may hate me: fruit snacks for getting out the door and staying with me in parking lots, t-shirts and or other small toys for not hitting her younger sister, etc. I am looking for some good sugar-free treats-they get us through getting out the door, putting snowsuits on, getting in and out of the car, things that can sometimes be struggles. Thanks again for the advice, I will take this information with me on my journey.

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