Psych Assoc.(Once Labeled Being Gay as a Disease) Says Your Sleep Apnea is All in Your Head

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Sunday January 29, 2012 · 6:09 PM PST

2012/01/29 · 18:09

When science intersects with money, science gets tossed out the window. We see this with global warming deniers. The same is true of medical science. There is no medical textbook as politically---and economically---controversial as the DSM---short for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. In its earlier incarnations, the DSM labeled homosexuality a mental illness. In 1986, seventeen years after Stonewall, the “disease” of being gay was removed from the list of psychiatric disorders. In DSM IV, homophobia is now a disease.

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Wednesday January 04, 2012 · 5:28 PM PST

2012/01/04 · 17:28

KosAbility is a community diary series posted at 5 PM ET every Sunday and Wednesday by volunteer diarists. This is a gathering place for people who are living with disabilities, who love someone with a disability, or who want to know more about the issues surrounding this topic. There are two parts to each diary. First, a volunteer diarist will offer their specific knowledge and insight about a topic they know intimately. Then, readers are invited to comment on what they've read and or ask general questions about disabilities, share something they've learned, tell bad jokes, post photos, or rage about the unfairness of their situation. Our only rule is to be kind; trolls will be spayed or neutered.

I have three grown daughters & 7 grandchildren ranging in age from 12 to 5. One of my grandsons, Dakota aka Cody who is now 12 years old, lives with my hubby & I & has for the past year & a half. He lived with us for almost 6 months prior to this most recent stay.

First, a little background. My middle daughter suffers from bi-polar disorder & ADHD & has a problem with taking her medications on a regular basis. My youngest daughter also has ADHD as do I, my eldest daughter does not have ADHD. Vicki, my middle daughter is Cody’s mom. Vicki has a younger son, Cody’s half brother Austin who is 6 who also has ADHD. I have other grandchildren who have ADHD. Cody’s pediatrician has said that many of his ADHD patients have at least one relative who have ADHD. There have been a number of studies that say that ADHD is genetic & I definitely believe it.

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Tuesday April 19, 2011 · 11:20 AM PDT

2011/04/19 · 11:20

Once, when I was eleven, I needed my mother. I don't remember the particular reason now, I only know I thought I desperately needed her. Only she was sitting at the kitchen table working on her recipe box and no matter how I asked her to talk to me, she refused. She told me I could not get her to pay attention to me.

I'll admit I was supposed to be a difficult child. I was ADHD, though I had an unusual diagnosis. Having been born in 1944, the term had either not been invented or the doctor in my small Missippi town had not heard of it. He told my parents the only way he could explain my behavior was that had I been born a horse, I would have been a race horse. Pretty good description, if you ask me.

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Thursday April 14, 2011 · 10:11 PM PDT

2011/04/14 · 22:11

Hello. My name is Adam, and I am essentially a complete slob.

Well, not a complete slob. I mean I shower and all that. But I'm disorganized, cluttered, etc. Some years ago I read a book called, "The Idiots Guide to Getting Organized," or something similar. There was a test in the book that was intended to identify different types of people vis-a-vis their organization "style."

My test results put me split between two categories. I am 50% what is called a "right angler" (I take things that are disorganized but make sure they are in neat piles stacked at right angles) and 50% what is called "Complete Slob" (I swear I am not making that up).

Read on if you so choose.

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When It Comes to Being Organized and Avoiding Stress I Am...

Michael Phelps

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A Strong Swimmer

1 vote

Just keeping my head above water

7 votes

Just occasionally getting a gasp of air

4 votes

Snorkling with no mask

1 vote

Far enough underwater that I occasionally encounter pockets of liquid methane

0 votes

Can't answer right now, I just realized I'm 15 minutes late for an appointment that I thought was next week

5 votes

Understanding Autism and Sensory Disorder (part 1)

FloridaSNMOM for Parenting on the Autism Spectrum

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Sunday April 03, 2011 · 3:53 PM PDT

2011/04/03 · 15:53

Many of our autistic children also have at least one form of sensory processing or regulating disorder. It's also very common in children with ADHD. Sensory processing disorder can affect any of the five senses in a myriad of ways, so the first part of helping your child is figuring out what is affected and how it is affected. There are two basic forms; oversensitivity (hypersensitive) or undesensitivity (hyposensitive). Unfortunately, these can vary within even one sense or from day to day. You can be both hyper and hypo sensitive at the same time. Most people have some sensory processing issue in a very minor way. People are commonly bothered by shirt tags, for example, or a certain sound, or even bright light, or we rock when we're upset. We cut out tags, avoid the sounds (or wear ear plugs), and wear sunglasses. It's minor, and annoying when we can't do these things, but it isn't disabling for most people. Now multiply that by 1000 and you have what it can be like for an autistic child, a child who often also has trouble communicating their distress.

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Thursday March 03, 2011 · 10:17 PM PST

2011/03/03 · 22:17

I recently wrote a KosAbility diary about my experience with ADHD, explaining my background as a woman afflicted with ADHD, and sketching a plan to perhaps try stimulant medication, which basically enhances focus.

I wrote that diary out of exasperation and relief, after 45 years of knowing something was wrong, but not exactly what. When my own son was diagnosed, the penny, as they say, finally dropped. I had it, too. Many terrific commenters chimed in with their own experiences and wisdom.

I've begun taking Concerta, and I want to hear more from you.

This diary is part of the Bright Shiny group, devoted to ADHD

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Anti-scientfic Disinformation Hyperbole Disorder

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Thursday February 17, 2011 · 6:29 PM PST

2011/02/17 · 18:29

You may well have seen all the reports on TV that attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is caused by a genetic difference. This follows a study conducted by Cardiff University published in The Lancet. The CNN piece is typical:

A new study in the Lancet provides the first direct evidence that genetic abnormalities are responsible for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, ADHD.

Except that the study shows nothing of sort. Indeed if anything it shows genetics are not the main cause of ADHD.

The public has again been the victim of the press's own ADHD - Anti-scientific Disinformation Hyperbole Disorder who cause is patently obvious - laziness and lack of professional journalism standards and knowledge.

Even worse in this case, it would appear to reinforce the justifications for what are considered inappropriate treatments in other countries and divert from addressing social/environmental factors in the USA that could well increase the incidence of ADHD.

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Thursday February 17, 2011 · 6:29 PM PST

2011/02/17 · 18:29

KosAbility is a community diary series posted at 5 PM ET every Sunday and Wednesday by volunteer diarists. This is a gathering place for people who are living with disabilities, who love someone with a disability, or who want to know more about the issues surrounding this topic. There are two parts to each diary. First, a volunteer diarist will offer their specific knowledge and insight about a topic they know intimately. Then, readers are invited to comment on what they've read and/or ask general questions about disabilities, share something they've learned, tell bad jokes, post photos, or rage about the unfairness of their situation. Our only rule is to be kind; trolls will be spayed or neutered.

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Thursday February 17, 2011 · 6:29 PM PST

2011/02/17 · 18:29

Yep, a cross post from Furious Seasons.

A series of studies in December's Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry is suddenly getting some attention because it raises serious questions about how ADHD is treated in children and teens, how well treatment works, what really drives ADHD--and whether it makes sense to medicate kids at all. The studies are based upon a cohort of 188 Finnish teens--the research is led by a Brit and an American, the teens have been tracked for several years--considered to have probably or definite signs that the disorder will continue into adulthood.

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Thursday February 17, 2011 · 6:29 PM PST

2011/02/17 · 18:29

I like to write diaries about topics that could help people and in my opinion everything is political so therefore everything is fodder for a political diary. I am not a medical professional but I feel fine about criticizing medical professionals and a medical community in general that props up a pill-for-every-ill pharmaceutical industry mindset and their insurance industry puppetmasters.

So yet another study has come out that reinforces other new studies which show that Ritalin and the like are useless against ADHD and actually stunts children's growth: after all, it's like prescribing toxic cocaine to a child. This new study shows the benefits of change in diet, in particular abstention from milk, which seems to have literally cured ADHD for some children who have metabolic defects. Autism studies have focuses on this same metabolic defects.

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Thursday February 17, 2011 · 6:28 PM PST

2011/02/17 · 18:28

This article really pissed me off:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...

So much so that I first posted this diary here:

http://www.sinisterblog.com/...

Anyway, here it is:

I have ADHD. I was diagnosed at three years old, long before anyone in the media had ever heard of it. I know several things for a fact:

(all of which you will find after the cut)

theKgirls

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Thursday February 17, 2011 · 6:27 PM PST

2011/02/17 · 18:27

My eight-year-old daughter needs to take nineteen pills a day. Nineteen. Every day. But there is only one pill that people feel obligated to question. My eleven-year-old needs to take an injection everyday. She also uses an inhaler and when the pharmacist showed me how to use it I said "basically, I'm teaching my kid how to take a bong hit?" He confirmed that is exactly how to use this inhaler. Yet again, it is the pill she takes that have people concerned enough to openly wonder if I am endangering her.

No one ever expressed concerns that Kgirl1 would become a heroin addict when she began growth hormone injections. No one was concerned she'd start smoking marijuana when she learned to use an inhaler. No one was concerned that Kgirl2 will turn into an addict because she must take several pills each and every time she eats. And yet one green and white pill is certain doom.

My kids have ADHD and I choose to treat it with medication.

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