Hormones and Medication

I can testify from experience that hormonal effects on people can be profound indeed. Some of the best examples are various kids I have known who have been diagnosed, correctly or not, with ADHD.

Back when I was in high school, I knew a kid who was very hyperactive and seemed prone to goofing around in class; everyone was led to believe had ADHD. He often made loud noises and other disruptions randomly, and he had severe trouble focusing. It seemed his doctors and his parents tried everything, but nothing seemed to help his condition. Then, after about two years or so, he stopped taking the ADHD medications… and his problem steadily fixed itself. It turns out the kid did NOT have ADHD; the medication was what driving him into such wild behavior.

It is scary to think of the powerful effects medication can have on our behavior, because it is through experiences like the one I just described that we can see just how vulnerable our self-control, our hormones, and our minds and bodies in general, can be.