Dr. Sharon Saline
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first heard Feb 2019
last heard Aug 2024
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They're tired.
They're tired of struggling.
And so my barometer over the years for medication is how much is your family and is your child suffering?
Because
You know, I'm I'm a psychologist, I like to help people and one of my reasons for becoming a psychologist and growing up in a family with someone who had untreated, unmedicated ADHD was um that there was a lot of struggle that we could have that I think we could have avoided and my brother
Could have
reduced if he had had access to medication that might have helped him and also therapy that um understood ADHD.
So I I feel like you know just giving people medication it does not really solve any I mean it helps make them more available to learn.
um the skills they need to learn, but in and of itself it's not gonna solve
all the problems.
It's medication makes you available to learn what you need to learn and it might improve your your processing speed and make your working memory be a little bit better, but you're still gonna need cues, you're still gonna need some systems.
And you're gonna need support.
Well, that's an excellent question.
I I think that it's a sometimes
Answer.
So um for younger kids, you know, it's easier for parents to do a top down, but my general
philosophy and my approach is that I want to include kids in this process.
Ultimately you as parents have a final say.
But one of the ways that helps kids even consider why medication would be useful is to explain to them on a very fundamental level what's happening in their brains.
And so I, you know, I'll draw a neuron and I'll talk about like how there's like a little river between a space between the neurons that's like a river and the ferries that are taking the the cargo from one neuron to the next.
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