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Subject: Re: ???

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damefrank

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Date Posted: 15:33:04 01/03/10 Sun
In reply to: Someone 's message, "???" on 23:54:23 08/11/09 Tue

Medication did not help my daughter's dyslexia in the least. Find another alternative if it troubles you is my suggestion. ADD isn't such a bad thing from my perspective as the mother of one and partner to an adult one. You are multi-tasking and can channel that...I bear witness to this!

How many people do you know who can read while the TV is on and the kids are running circles around the house and still answer the phone in a calm, focused manner? My partner with ADD could do this whereas I would go nuts! smile

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[> Subject: Re: ADHD & Dyslexia connection

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wendy
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Date Posted: 21:42:42 04/03/10 Sat

Dear Someone

I have ended up with not coping with both since a traumatic event in 2004. It was not until the event did my disabilities and an inability to cope surface. I was aware of the pervasive ADHD in most of my family but did not seem to suffer the symptoms. The dyslexia was also masked by some "gifted" ability akin to photographic memory. I always describe the processing as looking from another part of my brain i.e. the back of my head. Once I was severely traumatised I lost this ability and all of the disadvantages and symptoms of both dyslexia and ADHD came to together to present another load of unwanted challenges as I had winged things until then. Anyway as I suffer with both I felt to say I know why the two are likely to coexist as it is the same part of the brain that was fried during the trauma and that is likely to be the region where the wiring is different that causes our symptoms. I was a very active person before my injuries which is a major way of keeping the symptoms at bey. Ritalin sends you on a roller coaster and as I am adverse to taking medication and psychiatric control I ceased taking it. I searched for natural alternatives and commenced a course of native remedies formulae for ADHD which I found kept me calm so that I required less stimulants. However the ADDult Focus formulae which I then chose to help with study has had the opposite effect where I can not relax and need stimulants constantly. Meditation also helps but takes a large effort. My recommendation is triathlons I never felt better if you can do them to control both lots of symptoms....Anyway all the best Wendy