On Oct 18 07:19 96, Jane Kelley of 1:138/255 wrote to Regina Finan:
JK> Nope.  ADHD is thought to be a severe form of alcoholism or the bipolar
JK> disorder or an offshoot of one or the other.  It will not go away.  Both
JK> alcoholics and bipolars do not handle stress very well and neither will
JK> folks with ADD. They need to understand what they can do to optimize
JK> their systems to be able to handle the stresses of modern living.
The idea that there is a linkage between alcoholism and bipolar mood disorder 
has pretty much fallen out of favor in the last 15-20 years.  Because 
alcoholics experience mood swings, there was a belief that they are related: 
but the underlying biology is different, and current thinking is that it's 
alcohol that produces the mood problems, not the other way around.
I have never heard that ADHD is related to either of the others.  What treats 
one doesn't treat the others (with the possible exception of whatever it is 
that you were discussing, you didn't say what's in it), and the underlying 
brain chemistry is not related so far as I've read.  I'm pretty sure that if 
PET scans or the like showed any such thing, the news would have caught my 
attention.
Jerry Schwartz
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