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Appointment. Confused.
Tue, 10/26/2010 - 19:22Comments
Re: Appointment. Confused.
Submitted by trentonbest on Thu, 2010-10-28 - 06:08
Re: Appointment. Confused.
Submitted by zealot on Thu, 2010-10-28 - 07:32
Trent,
I've been thinking. I believe you are having seizures. They might not be epilepsy, but they sound like real seizures.
Lots of things can cause seizures, like not enough sleep and lots of things can cause not enough sleep, like noisy siblings, sleep apnea, high or low blood sugar (which can also cause seizures), etc.
ADD or ADHD is a terribly overdiagnosed "condition." It is a symptom. Lindsay Lohan is all over the news, just having discovered that she was misdiagnosed with ADHD and given medication for it, which made her really sick.
Make sure that all possible underlying causes are ruled out before you start taking AEDs or other brain medications as they can hurt more than they can help unless you really, really need them.
Please be careful and keep your eyes open.
You don't mention your parents much. How do they feel about all of this?
Baruch Hashem. Hoshia na.
Devorah Zealot Soodak http://psychout.typepad.com/ the zealot needs help!
Trent,
I've been thinking. I believe you are having seizures. They might not be epilepsy, but they sound like real seizures.
Lots of things can cause seizures, like not enough sleep and lots of things can cause not enough sleep, like noisy siblings, sleep apnea, high or low blood sugar (which can also cause seizures), etc.
ADD or ADHD is a terribly overdiagnosed "condition." It is a symptom. Lindsay Lohan is all over the news, just having discovered that she was misdiagnosed with ADHD and given medication for it, which made her really sick.
Make sure that all possible underlying causes are ruled out before you start taking AEDs or other brain medications as they can hurt more than they can help unless you really, really need them.
Please be careful and keep your eyes open.
You don't mention your parents much. How do they feel about all of this?
Baruch Hashem. Hoshia na.
Devorah Zealot Soodak http://psychout.typepad.com/ the zealot needs help!
Re: Appointment. Confused.
Submitted by zealot on Wed, 2010-10-27 - 20:27
Trent,
I'm not really sure you should read the blog if you can't figure out how to get there. All you need to do is click one of the links either to the post or the blog and read the page just like any other.
If you can't see it, maybe your parents have limits set up on what you can see from your account. That's a smart thing for them to do because there's a lot of bad stuff out there.
My blog isn't bad, but it's not really for kids. There's not anything obscene in it, but it is about grown up stuff.
I wish you all the best. Don't let anyone tell you you're crazy because you'e not.
Baruch Hashem. Hoshia na.
Devorah Zealot Soodak http://psychout.typepad.com/ the zealot needs help!
Trent,
I'm not really sure you should read the blog if you can't figure out how to get there. All you need to do is click one of the links either to the post or the blog and read the page just like any other.
If you can't see it, maybe your parents have limits set up on what you can see from your account. That's a smart thing for them to do because there's a lot of bad stuff out there.
My blog isn't bad, but it's not really for kids. There's not anything obscene in it, but it is about grown up stuff.
I wish you all the best. Don't let anyone tell you you're crazy because you'e not.
Baruch Hashem. Hoshia na.
Devorah Zealot Soodak http://psychout.typepad.com/ the zealot needs help!