Comment by niemandhier
4 months ago
The parent is explicitly endorsing stimulants. Those work well to some extend for treating ADHS, but in general evidence is rather weak for then improving academic achievement, while evidence is rather strong for behaviour changes that makes it easier for teachers to deal with kids, see e.g. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38871418/.
Pharmacology is not my main area of expertise but I used to do a lot of work in cardiology, and anything that increases the QT interval in the ecg increases the risk of Torsades de Pointes.
Rule of thumb is 5–7% more TdP risk per 10 ms QTc.
Quite a few adhs meds do this moderately, not enough to make an ecg mandratory.
I still believe that making medications the default for adhs is not warranted given the side effects, especially since in many cases it’s not clear if it treats the condition or just makes the lives of education professionals easier.
I’m reading this as a person diagnosed in their thirties and it feels a bit detached from reality frankly.
I, and millions other people, could tell you that it does immensely benefit with issues like executive dysfunction. Medication quite literally made the problem I had been battling for decades disappear instantly.
Associating adhd just with childhood is in itself an obsolete view that causes issues for people.
Preach it, although now it's crystal clear to me that I've dealt with ADHD since around middle school age and was fully in its throes by high school. Part of me wonders what my life would be like if I'd started treatment then and it was as effective as it's been for me as an adult.
Yeah same here - honestly I’m not yet even at the place where I’ve managed catch up with the issues caused by premeds time.
Lack of trust in delivery speed at work, friendships damaged by unintended slights and so on.
Even building habits that I could never have kept before is a grind. The fact that I now can build habits only places me at a neurotypical starting line, now habits still need to be built.