Letters From Clients: ADHD high school student excels on herbal program

My son had his days and we wondered how he would make it through high school.
He is termed ADHD ( Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder).
We were able to keep him off medication through elementary school (after having to change schools once) , by working closely with the teachers and other school staff. His grades weren't the greatest, and we often had flair ups, sometimes out of school for a day or two for consequences, but we were able to stumble through.
When he went to middle school it turned into a nightmare. Moving from class to class, teacher to teacher. ADHD kids have trouble dealing with change, and the situation turned into mass confusion for him, his grades went way down and his behavior was much to be desired for. I asked the school to put him into special education, (emotionally disabled), sought a new therapist, and started him on medication. It broke our hearts and that brought up new problems. The ups and down of medications wearing off, not eating, not sleeping, they wanted to give him sleeping pills. I felt I was turning my son into a drug addict. His grades still weren't that great but he was better able to cope in the mass confusion of the school setting. He became grouchy and irritable, at home there was no talking with him, he would fly off the handle at anything.
Then a friend saw a special on the news about an herbalist that was working with ADHA kids. He said the things they were saying on the special report sounded just like me. So I went to their web site, got the herbalist name, called and made an appointment. You're always skeptical at first but Dawn asked me not to tell her anything about my son that she would tell me more about him that I ever knew. It was amazing when we met her and there was no second guess to take her advice.
The first week was rough as my son didn't want anything to do with the Concerta (ritilin) and went off it cold turkey to the herbs, and the diet changes, suggested by Dawn, but after that he became our son again. not yelling at us, eating like a teenager should, sleeping like he never slept before. His grades have come up and we're looking forward to it getting better.
Now we are confident that he will get through high school and be able to graduate as a confident young man, not the scared confused kid we didn't know how to help.

Lynn,
Michigan

Note: Original letter is on file in Dawn's office