And if the doctors think drugs are needed, Bess will take them. If it takes medication to do that, then it takes medication to do that. When it comes to treating their kids with ADHD, many parents are balking at Ritalin and other stimulant medications. Some of these methods, like behavioral therapy, are tried and true. But psychologists warn that most of the others have not been thoroughly studied, and some have not been studied at all.
Some dietary supplements can even be dangerous, they say.
It's valid that they don't want to medicate their children, that they want to try other things first. Most often, they are used in conjunction with medication. And we don't know if it's necessary, safe, or effective. They turn other people off. He adds that another study showed that when children learned to change their brain wave patterns to more normal ones, they improved not only in the laboratory setting but also in school.