Stimulant drugs would make my son's ADHD worse - I'm sure!!!

[eilenej1]

As I mentioned in an earlier journal, I'm reading Healing the New Childhood Epidemics by Kenneth Bock.  In it, he states that the main reason stimulants fail in certain ADHD kids is that those types of drugs "push up the activity of the stimulating neurotransmitter dopamine, which is associated with attention and energy."  He goes on to say that it fails in some kids because they "already have a relative excess of dopamine, and an excess of dopamine hurts their brains just as much as a deficit does."  I already know from neurotransmitter testing that both of mine have excess levels of dopamine. 

Whew, makes me feel much better about my decision not to medicate with conventional ADHD meds.