But as the article made clear, the drugs were reducing her performance at school! This is one area where I think the ADHD community has pulled ahead, good doct

But as the article made clear, the drugs were reducing her performance at school! This is one area where I think the ADHD community has pulled ahead, good doctors will, when someone starts a new treatment, do weekly check-ins[1] with how one's quality of life is going across multiple metrics. Mood, self image, social life, and work/school performance. The fact this isn't done for all forms of psychiatric treatment is shocking and sad. From a non-medical perspective, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is good in that it tries to help people find fulfillment, or at least come to peace with themself. [1] Proper ADHD treatment is supposed to be provided by a psychiatrist and psychologist working in tandem and communicating with each other. Unfortunately the % of times this is actually done is most certainly way under 1%. Not even going to get into the insurance issues around this...