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Beating Your ADHDer Down
Why ADHDer's wont learn to change or control their behavior.

Preclinical Hypothyroidism
Subclinical or preclinical hypothyroidism is often “inadvertently” found during screening for general diseases and more specifically when a person has very mild symptoms of depressed thyroid function.

Screening for Cardiac Problems Advised Before Treating ADHD
The American Heart Association has recently advised children and adults should be assessed for possible cardiac problems before starting drugs for ADHD treatment.

Tattoos and ADHD
Most parents and spouses of ADHDers dread the possibility their ADHD teens and adults will end up with a tattoo sooner or later.

Sunscreens and Preventing Skin Cancer
More than one million persons in the United States develop skin cancer every year.

Prehypertension and High Blood Pressure
Prehypertension is another of what I call the "Pre" diseases.

Pre-diabetes and Sugar
Pre-diabetes is an “early detectable condition” involving metabolic changes in our body occurring just before a person develops diabetes mellitus or “sugar diabetes”.

Dealing With ADHD and the End of the School Year
The last two months of the school year can be very frustrating for teachers and parents of ADHD kids, as well as the affected students and other students in classes with ADHDers.

Treatment Resistant Depression

Personal Success Means Starting the Year with the End in mind
The number one reason a lot of people fail at what they wish to do is: they never start.

How to avoid post-holiday depression
About 25% of us will suffer such a letdown...


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