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ADHD

Environmental triggers ignored, again

01/09/2021 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

As anyone who has worked with children with behavioural issues such as ADHD will know, specific foods, colourings, food additives, pollens and chemicals can all trigger hyperactive reactions in sensitive children. When not exposed to their triggers these children remain calm and …

Category: Allergies, Behavioural conditions / autism, Conventional Medicine, Environmental Issues, Mental HealthTag: ADHD, ADHD and Tourette's, Association for Comprehensive Neuropathy, BMJ's Graduate Medical Journal, CBT and Tourette's, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Dr James Greenblatt, Environmental triggers in Tourette's Syndrome, Gilles de la Tourette’s syndrome and its impact in the UK, habit reversal training, halperidol, Hyperactive Children's Support Group, Latitudes, motor tics, Natural Treatments for Tics and Tourette’s, OCD and Tourette's, Parkinson's Disease, Sheila Rogers Demare, Tourette Association of America, Tourette syndrome, Tourette Syndrome: Stop Your Tics by Learning What Triggers Them, vocal tics

Children and Psychiatric Drugs

04/03/2011 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

Still on the subject of excessive medical intervention, an article in this morning's Natural News by human rights investigator, Monica Young, on the over-medication of boys for behavioural problems make horrifying reading. She suggests that, in the US,  what used to be seen as …

Category: Alternative/Complementary Health, Conventional MedicineTag: ADHD, bipolar disorder, Drugs/vaccinations, Monica Young, Natural News, psychicatric drugs

ADHD, genes – and diet….

30/09/2010 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  1 Comment

The publication today, of a new study claiming to have found a genetic cause for ADHD has prompted a rash of 'Don't blame bad parenting for ADHD – it's all in the genes' headlines – and a torrent of criticism from other ADHD experts and medical journalists - see BBC medical …

Category: Food, Food/Health PolicyTag: ADHD, Behavioural conditions, Feingold Association, Fergus Walsh, Hyperactive Children's Support Group, Ritalin, Tim Kendall

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