Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)/MEDICATION

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Expert: - 5/14/2007


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WHY DO STIMULANTS LIKE RITALIN CAUSE MY FACE TO BREAK OUT

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Dear Mary Jo,

I am not a doctor and so would not know why you break out but I do know a wonderful natural product that works well for ADD/ADHD.  It is a nutritional product that specifically feeds the brain and works very well.

Also, it would be really good for you to get your personality profile assessed so that you could see if you could work on some of your traits that could be contributing. I am close to getting a book finished that shows all the symptoms of ADD/ADHD and how personality traits that are natural to many people are considered symptoms when they are actually personality traits.

For example:  Low Concentration, while making it difficult to concentrate on one thing at a time, is actually a gift of being able to change focus quickly.  Each trait has a down-side and an up-side.  The up-side of this trait is that it is an asset in occupations that require you to change focus quickly, such as overseeing a large group of people to be able to catch what is going on. Being a sports coach, overseeing a group of people who are working in a room where you have to quickly catch this person and that person to see what they are doing.  It is also a gift in being able to multi-task easily because you don't get so involved in one thing that you miss other things.

By understanding your own trait pattern you can often find a career or work that actually utilizes these traits that seem like such a drawback.  

I can sometimes do an assessment from good photographs, plus interviewing the client.  

Often, a person is just in the wrong occupation where he is trying to go against his natural order and expects to be like those who are built to do well in it.

I would like to hear more from you.  If you would like to know more about the alternative nutritional product and personality assessment, e-mail me at personalityconsultant1@yahoo.com  Be sure and put the numeral one in there.  

I hope I can be of help.

Sharon Crandall
Life is 4 Living Coach
and Personality Consultant

Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)

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Sharon Crandall

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Behavior and learning challenges are usually caused by personality traits such as Restlessness, High Physical, Low Concentration, Wide Tolerance (spaciness), Force (anger), Aggressive, plus others. I can help in either area.

Experience

25 years experience working with families, teaching them how to work with traits so they work for you, rather than against you. As mother of seven grown children and grandmother of 19, I have seen first hand the beauty of recognizing talents and potential in a child who is difficult to raise. I could not have raised my last daughter, who had a very strong personality, without this knowledge. Besides working with families, I have worked with individuals and businesses. The challenges are always the same--learning how to work with your own traits, plus learning how to handle trait differences between yourselves and others.

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