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justbelieveyoucan said: Hi there, I understand how difficult it can be when you believe you are doing the right thing and they don't get it. I have a 10 year old boy who I have decided to stop medicating and have instead chosen behavior modification and cutting sugar back. My opinion is that sugar is a huge contributing factor to the negative symptoms of ADHD. Every child has varying degrees of ADHD and I believe that it is up to us as Mom's (parents) to follow our intuitive knowing to guide us through these seemingly difficult times. You may want to ask the boys why they believe you are "evil" etc. The biggest question to them might be "What do you need from me right now?" They are old enough to know if the meds work for them or not. They have already begun using logic, reason, analyzing and decision making at this stage of their developement. I am not a licensed professional however, I am a Hypnotherapist, ADHD myself and mother of 2 with ADHD. Know your options (all of them) research, research, research. What is positive about ADHD! I have found in my practice these children and adults to be exceptionally bright. Most have an entrepreneurial spirit. Discover about who they are as individuals and what inspires them. They will tell you if you listen. They simply do not learn the conventional way. Being quiet can be difficult because when they receive inspiration they feel a tremendous urge to share. Love that in them. I hope this gives you some relief. Gina

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Aurora said: Hi this is mi first time on ADDitude, my grandosn is 8 years old second grader, honor student, academic grades that are unbeleivable, but his behavior drives everyone crazy, he has been seen by so many doctors since he was in Pre-K, when he told the teacher in a Catholic school that she was wrong , and teaching kids with wrong information, the problem started there , He is in public school now, he is been tested so many times and evaluated by the child study team, and he fulls everone, during the testing, or evaluation he does great, and behave like a saint, until he gets to the classroom or home, he's been on every medicine that all this doctors can think of, ADD medicine give him a paradoxic effect, they work the opposite with him on the second day or so, he needs to be taken off, because he becomes 20 times more wild and hyper, the institute of child development of NJ, had try so much, he cann't handle meds, so the doctors and phsycatrist, started to give stimulants but after the third or fourth day we had to take him off the meds, because the same thing happened, so as of today he is not in any medicine, doctors want himm off for a long while because they don't have an answer for us, this is a very lovely boy very sweet, the teachers had told me , that he drive them crazy in a very polite way , with good manners, but with a very strong tone of voice, , it has been few times that he call me evil, or bad grandma, and the same with the teacher, he had tantrums in school or outbust, but always screaming saying please and thank you, but he will not stop the crying or acting like a baby, or very defiant. I nedd some help . some advice how do you go about hypnosis, or what do you think about all this.I hope to hear from you, Aurora

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justbelieveyoucan said: Hi there, I understand how difficult it can be when you believe you are doing the right thing and they don't get it. I have a 10 year old boy who I have decided to stop medicating and have instead chosen behavior modification and cutting sugar back. My opinion is that sugar is a huge contributing factor to the negative symptoms of ADHD. Every child has varying degrees of ADHD and I believe that it is up to us as Mom's (parents) to follow our intuitive knowing to guide us through these seemingly difficult times. You may want to ask the boys why they believe you are "evil" etc. The biggest question to them might be "What do you need from me right now?" They are old enough to know if the meds work for them or not. They have already begun using logic, reason, analyzing and decision making at this stage of their developement. I am not a licensed professional however, I am a Hypnotherapist, ADHD myself and mother of 2 with ADHD. Know your options (all of them) research, research, research. What is positive about ADHD! I have found in my practice these children and adults to be exceptionally bright. Most have an entrepreneurial spirit. Discover about who they are as individuals and what inspires them. They will tell you if you listen. They simply do not learn the conventional way. Being quiet can be difficult because when they receive inspiration they feel a tremendous urge to share. Love that in them. I hope this gives you some relief. Gina

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My son is 7 years old and also had terrible reactions to Adderall XR. The episodes at the end of the day were brutal and every name in the book came at me. We changed his meds to Concerta at the beginning of this school year. He seems to have a much slower withdrawal time from it, decreasing the anger and moods significantly especially in the afternoon. We also had no consequence that would work for him until we turned the doorknob around on his door. If he acted out with angry words or physically, we calmly (or as calm as possible) put him in his room and give him cooling off time. Within two days, most of that behavior subsided. My belief is that he had very clear boundaries and knew if he couldn't control what was coming out of his mouth, he would be removed from the situation. The name calling still happens, but the warning of going to his room (which he hates) is enough to stop it at that time. We've tried the positive reward thing, and unfortunately it backfires and is difficult to keep up with. However, praise when you catch them making the right choices is so very significant. Hang in there.

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If you're child wasn't so angry before the Adderall I would strongly consider trying a new medication. Our daughter was on Adderall and went from a child with ADD to a very hostile, angry, screaming I hate you, I want to live somewhere else, trying to run away from home 8 year old girl. When I started talking to other parents and going to a ADHD support group I found SO many other parents who had experienced the same thing with Adderall XR. Some of their children who had never been in trouble before even ended up in trouble with the law after starting on the medication. I googled Adderall and aggression and found a bunch of information. She is now on Vyvanse and is doing better, (Concerta did not cause the aggression either, it just didn't help her ADD). We have also put her on a mood stabilzer and that has helped alot as well.

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