Advice RE: ADHD son with serious struggles

tortoise
Fri, 12 Apr 2013 21:19:10 +0000

momindistress, you mention Prozac, but if your son has ADHD, why isn’t he on ADHD meds? I’m writing as one acutely familiar with the pathologies accompanying ADHD and depression is one of them (which comes when your world is collapsing due to forces entirely out of your control, and all you hear from authority figures are admonishments to “buckle down and apply yourself.”) So is substance abuse (by way of “self-medicating”).