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...combination. Mitchell's first reaction was, "I can pray this away. I thought, Listen, nobody in my family is going on drugs. That's an insult. I figured all we needed was family talks." But two years after the diagnosis, Mitchell has agreed to put her child on the ADHD drug Ritalin. She still resists the idea of antidepressants. It's her preteen daughter who's making the case for doing it. "Mama, it's in our genes," Sawateos tells...
There are several other complicating factors. Some psychiatrists believe depression in younger children often appears in conjunction with other disorders. "Many depressed kids," notes Fassler, "are initially diagnosed with ADHD or learning disabilities. We need to separate out the conditions and treat both problems." But there's a chicken-and-egg problem here: antisocial behavior or a learning disability can lead a child to become isolated and alienated from peers and thus can trigger depression. And depression can further interfere with learning or bring on antisocial behavior...
...There has been intriguing work to suggest that at least some children with ADHD may respond to nutritional treatments, including the addition of certain fatty oils or the elimination of other foods from their diet. But in a phrase that was repeated so often last week that it could become a registered trademark, panelists concluded that more research is needed...
Lawrence Diller's Running On Ritalin is the book most people are talking about these days, but it's hardly the only one out there. In the past 18 months a flurry of ADD and ADHD books have hit the shelves, each with its own view on whether to medicate or not to medicate...
...Preliminary evidence suggests that the brains of children with ADHD are somehow different from those of their unaffected peers. But no one knows for sure whether that is due to normal variation or the result of a true biochemical defect...