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Celebrate Children's Mental Health Awareness Week

The National Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health has designated the first week in May as National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week. Why is this awareness campaign important to a site about ADHD? The reason is because some children with ADHD are at risk for developing a mental health disorder in addition to their... Read moreChevron
posted 05/02/2011, comments (0)|
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Is ADHD Medication Addictive?

The safety of stimulant medications for ADHD has long been debated. Are these medications safe to use? Will giving children medication at a young age result in later substance abuse? Are these medications addictive? Are these medications too easily available that they pose a risk of abuse to those that don't have ADHD? As parents carefully and... Read moreChevron
posted 04/26/2011, comments (0)|
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Celebrities with ADHD

CNN has a post up today about famous people with ADHD.  Here are some of the highlights... Justin Timberlake Celebrity Chef Jamie Oliver Will Smith Michael Phelps Jim Carey Sir Richard Branson Howie Mandel James Carville David Neelman, Founder of JetBlue Airways Who says you can't be a billionaire in spite of your ADHD?
posted 04/21/2011, comments (0)|
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ADHD vs. Bipolar Disorder

Diagnosing ADHD is never an easy task. There are no laboratory tests, no x-rays, no way for a doctor to look at your brain and say you have ADHD. Instead, it is diagnosed based on a list of behavioral symptoms, such as hyperactivity and impulsiveness. Making it even harder to diagnose is the presence of coexisting conditions. Over 40 percent of... Read moreChevron
posted 04/04/2011, comments (5)|
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Autism Awareness: Kids Grow Up to be Adults

For those that don’t know already April is Autism Awareness month and this past Saturday marked the fourth annual World Autism Day.  To commemorate World Autism Day a national organization called Autism Speaks launched their annual Light it Up Blue campaign on the evening of April 1. Prominent buildings and structures in cities across... Read moreChevron
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