When I talk about “optimizing medication” in my presentations on Adult ADHD, some faces in the audience look puzzled. That’s not surprising, given the stories I’ve heard for years of careless prescribing patterns that result not only in unnecesary side effects but also sub-sub-optimal positive effects. Often, I’d vent my frustration via e-mail to Dr. Charles Parker.
Now, I can’t take credit for Dr. Parker deciding to produce a long-awaited comprehensive guide, ADHD Medication Rules: The Meds For Paying Attention, but no one is more thrilled than I am to have this as a resource. (It’s an e-book, complete with hyperlinks and search function. Very handy!) Readers of his Corepsychblog have long appreciated his breadth and depth of knowledge (in posts as well as video and audio and podcasts), and now they can benefit from his comprehensive strategy for the medical treatment of ADHD. Read the rest of this entry »
emotional baggage but also physical baggage — sleep debt, adrenal exhaustion, off-kilter hormones, allergies, and more. Yet, in our specialist-dominated healthcare “system,” finding a physician who can assemble all the puzzle pieces is a challenge.
“I have a patient with 2 PhD’s and a Master’s Degree, about 55 years old [two degrees in physics, and the other in another field of science] – he simply can’t think when the variables become unpredictable and, in the context of time, too abundant to manage in a give time frame. He is wonderful in the context of mathematics, but simply can’t take the responsibility of working socially with the unpredictable variables present in management with a team.
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