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...artificially manipulating the very chemicals responsible for feeling and thought. Adderall is the perfect answer for adhd, provided you overlook the fact that it's a stimulant like Dexedrine. Oh, yes, you also have to overlook the fact that the Adderall has left Andrea with such side effects as weight loss and sleeplessness, and both drugs are being poured into a young brain that has years to go before it's finally fully formed. Still, says Andrea, "I'm just glad there were things that could be done...
...Monica was 6, simply collapsed her alternating depressed and manic moods into a single state with sad and wild features. By the time she was 8, her behavior was so unhinged, her school tried to expel her. Next Monica was switched to Zyprexa, an antipsychotic, that led to serious weight gain. "At 12 years old she had stretch marks," says Hatten. Now, a year later, Monica is taking a four-drug cocktail that includes Tegretol, an anticonvulsant, and Abilify, an antipsychotic. That, at last, seems to have solved the problem. "She's the best I've ever seen her," says...
...does any kind of psychopharmacological meddling do, not just to brain chemistry but also to the acquisition of emotional skills--when, for example, antianxiety drugs are prescribed for a child who has not yet acquired the experience of managing stress without the meds? And what about side effects, from weight gain to jitteriness to flattened personality--all the things you don't want in the social crucible of grade school and, worse, high school...
Carrying That Weight...
...During the summer, he was constantly shuttling between the weight room, the track, on-ice training camp and summer league games,” Fried said. “[But] he never complained and always had fun with workouts. During team sprints, he was always at the head of the pack...