My 5-year-old nephew was just diagnosed with ADD/ADHD, and his teacher wants him to go on meds to ease classroom management. He and my brother are really hesitant about that.
What’s it like for such a young kid to go on ADD meds? Good or bad idea? I mean, I really wish I’d started back in my teens or twenties (geez, that would have helped), but at five one’s brain is barely finished forming…
Advice?
My dude’s brother and nephew could use some advice if you’ve got it.
So, I’m a masters-level psychotherapist, and I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was 23. A lot of my work concerns adults with ADHD, though I’ve spent some time in multidisciplinary clinic settings that treated kids 0-5 with mental health concerns. Medicating at this age is very normal. I was never medicated as a child, but I can talk some about what growing up with ADHD is like and a bit about what being medicated is like.
I started medication when I was 6. As much as I still have problems now (because ADHD is lifelong and can get worse as you get older) I can’t imagine how much worse I would be if I was unmedicated as a child.
I have very few memories as a kid, but my mother relates how coming back from an overnight girl scout trip, she forgot to give me my meds. I was ….insufferable apparently. Enough that she stopped, and gave them to me.
Twenty minutes later, I can stay in my seat, hold a conversation, and read my book. Like I wanted to do in the first place.
ALWAYS REBLOG WHEN YOU SEE SOMETHING LIKE THIS PLEASE; ITS SO MUCH MORE THAN IMPORTANT TO PEOPLE. IT MEANS EVERYTHING TO SOMEBODY AND EVEN THOUGH YOU MIGHT NOT SEE THIS IN THE SAME LIGHT, SOMEONE MIGHT. INFACT YOU REBLOGGING THIS COULD STOP SOMEONE TAKING THEIR LIFE TONIGHT.
Seriously thank you.
Please reblog. I love every single one of you. You’re not alone.
But as I’m sure you’re aware, we’re not limited to using symbols found in the lore in our personal practices. I was able to find a couple UPG-based correspondence lists that included chrysanthemums using Google. I’m pretty sure this one in particular was floating around Tumblr at one point. Apparently the
chrysanthemum
was a symbol of fidelity in some of those Victorian flower languages.
You don’t need other people’s approval to give something as an offering, though. Sometimes we end up with unusual personal associations because of our individual backgrounds and tastes, and there’s nothing wrong with leveraging that stuff in order to connect better with a deity. Unless you have some reason to believe it would be offensive to the god in question or you’re presenting a personal association as a universal/historical thing, you aren’t hurting anyone.
“A medical professor who has tracked the cost of insulin over the
years says that a one-month supply of a popular version that cost $45
wholesale in 2001 cost $1,447 14 years later, an increase of almost
3,000%. That’s the wholesale price, not the retail price that an
uninsured patient would pay.“
Yeah, that’s messed up.
Wow, it’s really rare I see something cross my dash that’s actually directly tied to my life on a personal level, but yea, I’m Diabetic Type 1 and this is a problem.
I’ve been off insurance for the last three or so years and have been working around through channel I can to continue to obtain insulin and supplies for my insulin pump (of which is currently a problem, fun) for free or at reduced costs.
The Lilly Cares program is one I heavily endorse if your insulin is a Lilly product. They’ve been incredibly helpful to me.
Please spread the word on this. There are a lot of young Diabetics like myself that do not have a support system, do not have insurance, and do not have jobs. Insulin is literally a life-sustaining medication for T1 Diabetics. Please do not just ignore this.
T1 diagnosed over 20 years ago here. Back when I was out of work in 2009 I contacted Lilly Cares and I swear I would not be alive if not for that program. T1s need insulin to live. Daily. Our bodies do not produce the hormone because our immune systems backfired and killed our pancreas’ islet cells.
These days one bottle of insulin costs me approx $600 (before insurance) and lasts 2-3 weeks, tops. Less than ten years ago the cost was closer to $200/bottle. The insulin manufacturers keep “tweaking” insulins like Humalog so the patents can be extended(*), so we don’t even have access to a generic option.
The price gouging on insulin in this country is cruel and damn disgusting.
Please, please boost this info. It WILL save lives.
(*) a fact that even my endocrinologist has confirmed!
Lilly Cares saved my husband’s life when he had no prescription drug coverage. Please, please utilize this program if you can. It’s wonderful.
It’s an electric wheelchair that’s controlled by the levers on the sides (so yes, you do need two hands to operate it, just like a manual). It’s only 40 pounds and can be folded down to fit into any trunk. The creators/managers all seem to be wheelchair users. I personally talked to one on the phone who told me the features he uses.
You don’t understand, I’ve been in New York City for almost four months now and it’s been incredible and in that time, I’ve wheeled my manual chair about 300 miles (there are times I’m going up to 40 blocks a day) and I am so sore and so bruised and so tired and it’s going to s n o w soon and even though the city won’t get nearly as much snow as upstate, it’s still not going to be fun, but I’ve always been afraid to get a big, bulky, electric chair because I don’t want to:
A.) Completely give up my autonomy.
B.) Have a 500 pound electric chair run out of power and have to figure out how the heck I’m getting it and me home.
But this chair, this chair, lads…
This chair can get me all the way from my apartment down the island to Times Square and into Amorino for the world’s best waffles/gelato/hot chocolate before it even considers running out of power. And it only takes 3 hours to fully charge AND if for some reason, something happens, it can be folded up and put into any NYC cab and I’m just so, so, excited. NYC is filled with so many hills that I’ll now be able to go up/down without straining myself. I’ll be able to take the M5 down Riverside and still get to the center of the island without heaving and huffing and sweating. I just really, really, hope it all works out!
Note: Absolutely none of this is sponsored. I’m just really excited about this wheelchair. The Amorino part isn’t sponsored either but seriously, you should all go to Amorino at some point in your lives, I should stop going to Amorino because at this point, I go once a week and that is what we call Unhealthy. But I don’t care because life is short and Amorino is good. And so is this wheelchair (hopefully).
Seriously ya’ll need to fucking stop with this shit. Sigyn is a grown ass fucking woman for fuck’s sake. We don’t talk about any other of Gods or Goddesses being a child-bride. It’s only one person’s fucking UPG that gets held on a fucking pedestal as Sigyn being a child-bride. I don’t give a shit about “age” or “historic” acceptance of child-brides. That shit is fucking disgusting. Period.
It’s also fucking abusive as fuck. Like in any other relationship in mythos or real life that sort of meeting as a child thing and Loki being Her only friend and “grooming” Her to be His wife reflects real life child sexual abuse. God or human doesn’t matter. That’s what that shit is.
Then there’s the issue of it passively demonizing Loki because who would ever want to marry or be with Him. Like it’s making Him seem so awful that of course He’d marry a child. Or because She was only “groomed” to marry and stay with Him. Fuck that shit with a cactus covered in hot sauce.
I have literally never heard of any interactions with Sigyn or Loki, including my own, where this child-bride crap was verified. All this is is glorifying pedophilia and we already have enough of that in our religion as it is.
This this this this this. This is UPG presented authoritatively and I really despise how often I stumble across it. There’s nothing wrong with having a god or goddess appear to you in child form (Hel often appears to me as a child), but depicting said appearance in the context of a romantic and sexual interaction is awful. In Krasskova’s devotional piece, adult Loki purportedly meets Sigyn when she’s apparently a toddler, has an immediate attraction to her, but knows it would be wrong to pursue anything, so gives her gifts and befriends her while waiting for her to get older. (Which is quite literally the definition of grooming.) In this piece, he marries her when she turns fifteen.
I’m fully aware that gods don’t age the same way humans do, blah blah blah. It doesn’t change the fact that this story uncritically presents pedophilia as sweet, and infantilizes my beloved goddess’ side of her relationship to my beloved Loki, and I hate it. And I’d really ask any adults who are particularly drawn to this interpretation to take a long, hard look at why, and why they find it more appealing than other UPGs where Loki and Sigyn meet and fall in love as two adult equals in a balanced relationship.
If you’re having a panic attack, anxiety attack, if you can’t calm down or even if you just need some help falling asleep this can be really helpful! ♥
This is getting on my fucking nerves, so I’m just going to say it here:
Adults who need high levels of support in daily living are not children.
“Mental age” is a concept rooted in eugenics, and it doesn’t actually exist.
No one should be robbed of agency or dignity because of their need for support.
Oh, also, while we’re at it (since disability rights activism that doesn’t tackle age-related oppression is bullshit), kids deserve to be treated with respect too. Shouldn’t be a controversial statement, but it is.
Most people neglect to mention this, but if “being treated like a child” equates to “being robbed of agency and dignity,” there’s something fundamentally wrong with the way we treat children.
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