Can ADHD be taught out - educated out of a person?

Can ADHD - ADD be taught out of a person?

yes and no.

A person can be taught how to control it TO A DEGREE, and how to live with it without medication

but they will always have it- it is just the way their brain is hard wired- its in the way they think - from first moment of the day to the last

can you be successful without ritilin- YES
BUT it is a long hard road.

can't be "educated" out. there is a non-drug cure, however.

Prior to 1960, 100% of child ADD/ADHD cases were successfully cured by the repeated application of a leather belt or hickory switch to the patient's rear end.

The number of treatments varied from patient to patient, but all experienced a full recovery and no longer had any ADD/ADHD symptoms.

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Yes, I think so, but not with conventional schooling. I think it takes a lot of patience and play. Kids have a lot of energy because they're kids and they are supposed to. remember that before you try to medicate them.

I really think you have to be creative to keep their attention, especially when they are really young. With science, do lab experiments. In English, if they are reading a specific book, help them act out the scenes they don't understand. If they don't understand how to diagram sentences, make note cards with each word of the sentence written on it. Diagram it like that, using labels for each word.

Most people who have been diagnosed with ADHD and ADD just don't do well at paying attention, find something to keep their attention, no matter what it is.

Yes, I think in most people it can. Honestly, I think most of the people who are diagnosed with those disorders are really just a product of our "now, now, now" society. Kids especially - most kids now consume way too much sugar and processed food and spend too much time playing videogames.

I feel silly referring to South Park, but there was an episode they did once about those disorders that was dead-on, in my opinion. All of the kids starting claiming that they had ADD and one of the teachers finally got sick of it and started really cracking down on them and making them shut up, concentrate, and do their work. I think a lot of times children who are diagnosed with those disorders just haven't been taught/disciplined properly by their parents. I have a friend whose son supposedly has it but if she would make him eat a balanced diet instead of allowing him to live on junk, make him go outside once in awhile instead of living on the Gamecube, and set better guidelines for him, I think he would greatly improve.

I read a study awhile back in which a school (I can't remember what the name of the school was) had switched their meals to healthy foods and removed the soda and surgary juice machines from the hallways. The students complained at first but they saw a big improvement in performance later.


I think that some people genuinely do have the disorders, and in those cases they might not be able to live normally without medication or a lot of therapy, but I think in most cases the people in question really don't have ADHD/ADD.

I think ADHD just effects people different and their ability to cope is different. My boyfriend is 26 and has ADD and at times it is very evident, but yet he is a successful electrician. He has medications, but rarely needs them. I think that he grew up in a very nuturing and loving environment and that helped him a lot. His parents spent time and patience with him rather than turning to prescriptions to shut him up.

nope. t hat never was the case with me.
i've had adhd since i was 6 and i'm 17 now...
you can only do so much to control it,
but it is so worth it to take medication for it.
straight a's for meeee

i think that ADHD is misunderstood, people think it means a hyper kid who yells and talks in class, no, its the kid who cant pay attention, and will walk across the room in the middle of a lesson simply because it fits their interest. see the difference? the ADHD kid is not too disruptive, but the other kid is attention seeking. who decided giving attention whore kids ritalin was a good idea? ANYWAYS, now that im done ranting, it cant.

Truly understanding their problem through reading books and articles about their condition can really help individuals with any kind of mental disorder.