ADHD Support Group

I have gone through all of my groups and were asking questions, about their feelings and how these dieases are taking over peoples lifes.

So I am now here with all my friends in ADHD group and I would like to know how you are feeling? It doesn't just have be about you it can be about your children, friends,who ever. I am making this too be a feeling day.

maryanne

Hey there, I am actually feeling pretty upbeat lately, my son's ADHD was causing a LOT of home problems within our family for a while, and he was not doing very good at school or aftercare here in West Virginia. SO, as a result he took a vacation to florida and stayed with my parents for a while and then came back at the end of the school year/begining of Summer. He is now doing pretty well. However, I am SEVERELY agitated with the fact that so many HMO's are not covering the Focalin XR prescription that he used to take that worked very well for him. He is now on the generic version of Focalin which is all they will cover and has to take it 2 times a day instead of 1. But, were getting better, He is doing really well and it is still an adaptation process for our family. We are always reading up on ADHD and learning new techniques to cope.

Have a blessed day,

Nicole

I do understand about HMO's boy they are a pain. I have been going through this for over fifteen years and two months with my youngest son. My oldest son has ADHD/ODD/ Multiable disability,and my youngest has ADD and a learning disability just like me. I am not going to tell you that it gets any easier cause it don't but you will find a way and the rest of your family will do the same.

I have learned through out the years you don't treat him any different then what you would treat your other kids. Trust me on that one. My boy's will put my husband and I againest one another all the time and that isn't good.

I am now a parent advocate for Up State Ny and I have been this for 13 years.. Have anymore questions feel free any ask them..

maryanne

Well, not so much a question as I need to vent.......

I have been blessed with an amazing family. My parents are so helpful and have been very generous to me, as I was going through my divorce and helping me with my five kids. My two brothers are very smart, and both have jobs as engineers, and neither one has children of their own. I also have two sisters, one of which has two children. All five of us did well in school, stayed out of trouble, and are responsible adults.

Because no one in my family has ADHD, (the gene comes from my ex-husbands side), my family thinks that my children are out of control, and wild. They think that they ADHD diagnoses is over-emphasized, and that I am using it as an excuse for my kids to bring home poor marks in school, and to be unruly at times. I am so heart broken that no one can understand what it is like for them. I cant even imagine having to go through one day with what must go on in their brains.

Well.....this past week, we were vacationing with the family at my parents cabin in Northern Michigan...something we look forward to every year, but always comes with its share of bad moments when kids are running around the cabin, and unable to sit still for more than a moment or two. I dont give my kids their meds for the summer, because of side effects, and I want them to be the kids that God gave me.....ADHD and all. One evening, I guess my mother and my brother and sis were out back talking, and my kids overheard them having a conversation about my brother not wanting to have kids. And my mother said "Don't let Tracy's kids scare you into not having your own. All kids dont turn out that way."

I am hurt, that my own mother would say something so horrible. Even if those werent her exact words, that is how my kids took it, so it is just as bad. They didnt ask for this. I know that she wouldnt have said it if she thought any of them were listening, but I cant believe that is how she feels about them. I dont know if I should confront her, and try to explain, yet again, that they cant help it, or just blow it off and not let it get to me. Its such a shame that this is how people, especially my own family, view kids with ADHD. Makes me want to quit my job and spend all my time and effort fighting for them. Phew. I feel better.

I feel like crap because it seems like no matter what i do to help myself or my son I keep smacking into brick wall after brick wall the DR treat me like just because i'm a young mom that doesn't know anything and that it's ok if they push me off the to side the school is doing the same thing to me.

I am new to the group and I was browsing around and saw this question "How are you feeling?" I didn't think the tears would come so easily. I have 3 wonderful children. My oldest and my youngest always test higher than their grade, but my middle daughter, oh boy. She has several problems including ADHD and an anxiety disorder. I feel like I am failing her as a parent because I can't make everything all better for her. She is a smart, beautiful child with no behavioral issues. She has low self esteem because she gets picked on at school. I tried Girl Scouts so she could interact with girls her age. That was worst. Very cliquey. Isn't it our job as parents to make our childs growing up to be remembered as a fond memory, not one where they were picked on because they were "different"? I don't know, I guess I was just wondering if anyone else is trying to take on the burden of "fixing it" for our little ones.