ADD / ADHD Awareness

First Elected Politician With The Courage To Go Public With Having ADHD in Canada Or America. Thanks Sarah Blyth!

Billionaire entrepreneurs, Gold medal winning Olympic athletes and entertainers, and pulitzer prize newspaper columnists have gone public with ADHD but up until now no elected politician in Canada or in the US has gone public with having ADHD that I’ve been able to find. I’ve searched the web and asked many people in both Canada […]

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Girls And Women With ADHD Have Higher Rates of Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa And Binge Eating, Here Are Some Reasons Why

Girls with ADHD were 2.7 times more likely to develop Anorexia Nervosa a study in the Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics showed. This post will show that girls and women with ADHD have higher rates of Anorexia Nervosa as well as Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder, and explain some of the reasons why.

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ADHD Awareness Week October 16-22nd 2011 How You Can Make A Difference

ADHD Awareness Week is October 16-22, 2011. Do you think most non ADHD people really understand what ADHD actually is & how it affects people who have it? If not, read what ADHD Awareness week is about and some ways you can help reduce the ignorance and stigma many people have about ADHD, and increase

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Ujjal Dosanjh Liberal MP For Vancouver South Supports Screening Prisoners in Federal Jails for ADHD

Ujjal Dosanjh, from Wikimedia Last Saturday, shortly after I tweeted about Vancouver South Liberal MP and past BC Premier & Attorney General and Federal Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh‘s (on Twitter @ujjaldosanjh ) signs been destroyed or defaced on Twitter, 35+ of Liberal Dosanjh's large 4 by 4 signs have gone missing + another 25 have been

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Of Course. Green Party Leader Elizabeth May’s Answer To My ? Would She Support Screening Federal Prisoners For ADHD

Yesterday I went to two leaders rallies in Vancouver, Michael Ignatieff’s in North Vancouver and Elizabeth May’s in Vancouver At the Green party rally that started at 7.30pm in front of the train station in Vancouver I asked Elizabeth May who’s @elizabethmay on Twitter “Do you knew that 20-45% of prisoners have ADHD?”  Only 5%

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