will medication help or what medication can help?
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If by NLD you mean nonverbal learning disorder, there is no medication. NLD is not a medical condition. It is a descriptor of your brain's natural wiring...and how it learns. \n\nIf you have NLD, you have difficulty "seeing" patterns, sequencing picture stories, putting together puzzles, etc. Math is probably a royal headache for you. It is just the way you are "wired." You are probably VERY strong in other skills (perhaps non-academic, but still, they are SKILLS).\n\nThe best way to improve your ability to see patterns, as with anything else, is to practice. Get VERY simple jigsaw puzzles and work them. Play pattern-solving games (such as arcade or puzzle games) on the computer (www.pogo.com has some nice ones for Club members...I like Penguin Blocks, myself). When you read a book, practice stopping every little bit and asking yourself what you think will happen next. Then read ahead to see if you were right. When you watch a movie, try to catch mistakes the director has made in costuming, makeup, and background (e.g. the actor's earring is in the left ear for one second, then in the right ear the next second, etc.).\n\nFor schoolwork, get individualized tutoring in the areas of difficulty (such as math). The teacher should be someone who can identify EXACTLY where, in the problem-solving process, you get stuck or mess up. Then, the teacher should explain to you how to deal with that one step, and give you some practice time just for it (such as breaking apart tens-column values into ones for regrouping). If you are receiving special ed help, does the teacher do this? If not, take the first step and say..."I can get to here, but now I don't know why it messes up." This is called "task analysis." If your special ed teacher doesn't task analyze, and gets cranky when you do it yourself, ask for a new teacher, or demand immediate training for your current one (yes, administrators will look at you funny). Call a new IEP and demand that task-analysis be included in the instructional modifications.\n\nThere is no medical fix for a learning disability. The only fix out there is to practice hard in that area. It's like when you go to P.E. and there's a kid who has weak muscles. If they work hard, they get stronger, but still may be relatively weak compared to everyone else. The kid didn't chose to be born smaller and weaker. He/she just is. But they can improve...if they aren't worried about comparing themselves to everyone else.
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Try this. It might help.
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Both might be helpful.  I'd start with a psychologist and see if that helps, but if you are diagnosed as depressed, both would really maximize the benefits.  PLEASE do not feel like only very mentally ill people need medications.  Plenty of well-functioning people become anxious or depressed, and feel better with some medication.  Don't be ashamed, a lot more people are unhappy than you think-it's just not something that people generally talk about with one another!!
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yes, i have both and i take meds for both. it helps.
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A good doctor will prescribe the medicines you need, but NOT ones that you only "think" you need.\nIf you have a genuine problem that can be treated with medication you will have no problem getting a prescription. Otherwise, maybe you need to think about why you think you need a certain medication, and consider getting help for addiction. Pain medication can be very addictive, so if you think you have a problem there are many organizations that help with that sort of thing. \n\nGood Luck
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Medications only do so much.  You need to get counseling/therapy, too.  No one can help you become enthused about anything if you don't want to.
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I take paxil CR...it helps big time...good luck...
649447
Most meds have the chance of becoming ineffective. Stay in touch with your doctor. Maybe your dose is not right yet or your medication needs to be changed. Good Luck!
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Not at all. It depends on you diagnosis, but everyone is different and responds differently to drugs. Tricyclics are old school, but still effective. It's whatever works for you.
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This is something to speak with your physician about don't listen to half the people in these posts.  Sometimes the meds do help though.  Because there are chemical embalances in your brain and the right drugs can weigh it out.  Speak with a physician or find a new physician if you don't like your current ones answers.  Things always get better bud.
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Definitely.   These days, our medications are so advanced that there is a pill that can virtually target any sympton in the body.  The past 10 years for medicine has been the biggest breakthrough decade (partly due to the internet).  ADHD is actually sluggish brainwaves and as a result, many distractions come into the brain because nevers aren't traveling back and forth at a fast enough rate (totally opposite of what most people think).  And there are medications that can go exactly to those nerves and speed them up causing more focus which automatically calms a kid.  Truly amazing.   I am not saying I'm an advocate of pills at all, but if someone's quality of life is suffering,,,,maybe it's an option.  The question was about being helped so I answered accordingly!!
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yes medication helps gout, It helps the acute symptoms and it helps preventing relapses in the future.  Furthermore what you need is a list of foods to AVOID from your Doctor.
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Medicine already does to some point.  Different medicines react with the chemistry of the brain helping people that have difficulties with certain aspects of reasoning.  They can help boost the chemical signals the brain uses transmit information or increase the blood flow to areas of the brain.  I am sure it will not be long before newer drugs make larger impacts in memory (Alzheimer's drugs already do this)
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depends on the type meds. the best thing to do would be to ask your doctor.
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Are you on medication?  If not, you may want to check into it.
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yes but there are meds to help control it also some therapies are known to help
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Your Doctor may prescribe med for you to lesson the symptoms or prevent altogether.  There are at least two available by RX now.  One is expensive, other cheap, both work well.  Se the doc, he will direct you.