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Think of ADHD as sitting at the centre of an onion. Poor sleep, sleep apnoea, low vitamin levels, allergy, ongoing pain, untreated anxiety or low mood all sit in layers around it, and each one makes the centre look worse than it is.
This explains something that otherwise looks strange: treatments that do nothing whatever for ADHD can still make a real difference, because they…
There is no single treatment that covers all of this. What works looks more like five things running alongside each other, and understanding the condition comes first.
Each piece reaches a different part of the day. Medication does something the environment cannot, changing what a room asks of someone does something…
The stack goes: understand it, medicate where that is right, change what the adults do, change what the day asks, and keep arguing the child's corner. Each layer does a job the others cannot.
None of them stands in for another, which is why swapping one out leaves a gap rather than a smaller plan. Medication does not reorganise a…
Behaviour work for ADHD is mostly about changing what the adults do. The child's behaviour shifts afterwards, as a consequence.
Consequences live in other people's responses, and a child who cannot yet hold a reward in mind across three days cannot supply them for themselves.…
When a child with ADHD and a parent get stuck in daily rows, the rows themselves start doing damage. Getting the ADHD properly managed early takes some heat out of those exchanges before defiance settles in as a habit.
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The chain people worry about runs from constant friction at home to entrenched defiance, and from there to difficulties in the teenage years that are…