Sleep apnea is one of the most misdiagnosed and underdiagnosed medical conditions because so many doctors just don’t suspect this common disorder when patients present with its troubling symptoms. Read more…
If your child’s been diagnosed with ADHD, you’d better first have a sleep study done on them before you start doling out the ADHD drugs. Read more…
Drugs aren’t the answer for kids and adults whose ADHD is caused by sleep problems, and sleep problems can easily be missed by parents, spouses and the patients themselves. Read more…
There are clear signs that indicate your child was misdiagnosed with ADHD. In fact, ADHD is simply an acronym that merely describes a symptom group, and there is no diagnostic test known that definitively confirms Read more...
If you think your child has ADHD, examine your behavior: Maybe you bully your child and have caused the ADHD. But parent bullies rarely admit they do this. A bullying parent doesn’t necessarily use corporal Read more...
Conditions that mimic ADHD and lead to misdiagnosis in kids Has your child been diagnosed with ADHD, because if so, he or she may have been misdiagnosed. Numerous conditions mimic the diagnosis that is known Read more...
The ADHD symptom checklist seems to grow by leaps and bounds every few years, so that more and more people can be included in the checklist. For this article I interviewed Shane Ellison, a pharmaceutical Read more...
If you’ve been diagnosed with ADHD, you might really have sleep apnea and were misdiagnosed. The symptoms of ADHD mimic the symptoms of sleep apnea. It’s not at all uncommon for people (kids and adults) who’ve been Read more...
Can the answer to the ADHD child's situation really be corrected with drugs? Though many kids are given an ADHD diagnosis simply because they exhibit poor manners, impatience or other annoying traits that, in adults, Read more...
There's so many drugs out there that are prescribed for kids diagnosed with ADHD, but certainly, some of these drugs work much better than others, but which? I posed the question, “What is the best Read more...
Okay, so which is to blame for causing ADHD? Bad parenting or some kind of fluke in the natural wiring of the child's brain? It's easy to blame the brain, right? This gets parents off Read more...
When one child out of several in a family has been diagnosed with ADHD, it's not uncommon for the parents to suspect that birth order had something to do with it. To some parents, it Read more...
A psychologist who specializes in ADHD talks about fidgeting. Many people who’ve been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) would like to know if fidgeting is a behavior that comes with this collection of Read more...
A psychologist who specializes in ADHD comments on leg shaking. For this post I interviewed Dr. Robert Myers, creator of the Total Focus program at Legacy Publishing. Dr. Myers is a clinical psychologist with 25 years of Read more...
Here is what a psychologist says about the connection between walking on one’s toes and ADHD. Where did the idea ever originate that walking on one's toes is a symptom or indicative of attention deficit Read more...
Here’s what an ADHD specialist says about bedwetting. For this article I consulted with Dr. Robert Myers, creator of the Total Focus program at Legacy Publishing. Dr. Myers is a clinical psychologist with 25 years of Read more...
Find out from a doctor if it’s worth keeping your ADHD child away from gluten foods. For this article I consulted with Dr. Robert Myers, creator of the Total Focus program at Legacy Publishing. Dr. Myers Read more...
An expert on ADHD answers the question: Can attention deficit hyperactivity disorder cause bad sense of direction? A bad sense of direction can be evident in children when they ride their bikes or navigate the Read more...
Running up and down a staircase is believed to be a sign of ADHD by many people. And we're not talking about dashing up and down for exercise, either. I was perusing an ADHD forum Read more...
If your child's been diagnosed with ADHD, consider a misdiagnosis; so many other conditions can masquerade as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. "I would say that many of the kids I see come in with that Read more...