Literally hundreds of adults have come up to me at ADHD conferences, book signings, ADHD support group meetings, or other public events and begun what back in the ’60s we used to call a “speed rap.”
Hmm.. the only speedy talkers I’ve met, are the unmedicated ones. Amphetamines and coffee/other stimulants are meant to have a calming effect to ADHDers. It slows everything down and we’re more able to untangle thoughts, one at a time.
But I do understand that in US there is a problem of over and mis-prescribing.
Thankfully in UK adhd medicine is highly regulated and only prescribed by psychiatrists after proper lengthy assessments and months of titration.
Perhaps it’s not a matter of ADHD people going without needed medication, but having more regulations in place, so there are less misdiagnosed cases and incorrect prescriptions.
Almost sounds like those in the speed rapper category are unwittingly putting themselves into a bipolar situation, with extreme highs and lows. I married into a family with multigenerational bipolar, and understand how harmful the extreme highs and lows can be.
If you pull back a bit the logic of these types of drugs is not there. To prescribe something that is addictive instead of curative seems to be medical malpractice. Yet, we see this pattern over and over again with far too many pharmaceuticals. What lies behind this is a pharma industry based on unending growth in earnings and cash flow. I witnessed this first hand as an investor relations representative for one of the pharma cos selling Ritalin.
There is growing evidence that the so-called Western Diet rich in dairy, meat, and high gluten products is highly associated with ADHD. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20631199/
Hmm.. the only speedy talkers I’ve met, are the unmedicated ones. Amphetamines and coffee/other stimulants are meant to have a calming effect to ADHDers. It slows everything down and we’re more able to untangle thoughts, one at a time.
But I do understand that in US there is a problem of over and mis-prescribing.
Thankfully in UK adhd medicine is highly regulated and only prescribed by psychiatrists after proper lengthy assessments and months of titration.
Perhaps it’s not a matter of ADHD people going without needed medication, but having more regulations in place, so there are less misdiagnosed cases and incorrect prescriptions.
Almost sounds like those in the speed rapper category are unwittingly putting themselves into a bipolar situation, with extreme highs and lows. I married into a family with multigenerational bipolar, and understand how harmful the extreme highs and lows can be.
If you pull back a bit the logic of these types of drugs is not there. To prescribe something that is addictive instead of curative seems to be medical malpractice. Yet, we see this pattern over and over again with far too many pharmaceuticals. What lies behind this is a pharma industry based on unending growth in earnings and cash flow. I witnessed this first hand as an investor relations representative for one of the pharma cos selling Ritalin.
There is growing evidence that the so-called Western Diet rich in dairy, meat, and high gluten products is highly associated with ADHD. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20631199/
But correlation is not causation. A detailed, but rather dense, discussion of the physiological mechanisms is provided in this video https://youtu.be/m6JupL84vY0?si=eZ0y8l32vpAuUXJR
Perhaps we should fix the food rather than throw pharmaceuticals at the problem.
Was prescribed something that started with a Z, but it made me not want to do anything.
Then I was deployed to Iraqi Freedom...
Oh. Unless you discourage it, whenever you bring up "Hunter..." on air I'll open a chat on Substack.