Tag Archives: mood disorders

Please ‘listen’ to my symptoms, don’t drug them.

The preliminary results of a research study was reported at the 2012 Pediatric Academic Societies meeting in Boston.  These results show that for the 10 top pediatric conditions, children accounted for 60% of patients but only 12% of the clinical drug trials. This is pretty scary when you consider that decisions about drug treatment for [...]

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ADHD – a symptom or a disorder?

I promised you some important facts about stress during this stress awareness month.  In my last blog I wrote about how stress cancels joy.  Here are more very important facts:   Stress in children is currently a largely unrecognized and untreated problem and is reaching epidemic  proportions. This high level of stress is the trigger for [...]

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What if you don’t know that you don’t know something?

  Today I sat across the table from a wonderful lady who lost her son 18 months ago to drugs.  He was in his early twenties.  Her journey to that terrible moment was one that hundreds of thousands of parents can sadly relate to.   When he was six years old he was diagnosed with ADHD. [...]

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