Okay, so I resubmitted it and hopefully it doesn't get rejected. We'll see!
Here is what I wrote in response:
To politely disagree with your reference into my personal life, as I have ADHD as well and have handled it through treatment without medication aka behavioral therapy. The majority of the time, Neurofeedback uses a combination of the patient being put on medication until positive results are seen or the patient is already taking medication to begin with. Plus, approximately 75% of patients only reduce their medication intake and do NOT completely eliminate taking medication. And ADHD is NOT curable by any means. There are plenty of facts to support this. It's wonderful that you and your son may have seemed to completely eliminate the symptoms of ADHD, but it's NOT curable. This is a fact too, supported by plenty of research. My degree is in Psychology, I have already completed the required areas for the major, just finishing other upper level credits needed by the university. This is a field I am extremely interested in, as it's always been a part of my life.
As far as the article, the items needed list- Those were intangibles, yes, I understand, but when handling mental health subjects- most of the items needed are intangibles. I added the list back. Please reconsider these, as they are needed too. These items are essential when a parent is trying to handle a child with ADHD. Parents tend to forget these things, so a little reminder for them, should they read the article is a good thing. I have even seen other ehow articles with these intangibles included in their list of items needed, especially for mental health subjects.
Behavioral therapy is a type of psychotherapy which contains several forms of treatment geared towards other mental health conditions. Also, another type of psychotherapy is social skills therapy, but that's included in the training through behavioral therapy. Behavioral Therapy targets the behaviors of not only the child, but the parents as well. It can just target the child, but it is best to target the family together, as a whole.
In saying this, there aren't really any other options that are completely medication free. This is the option where a person goes into it completely medication free, because they want to avoid the medication.
So, in the overview, I added this to my sentence to identify it as behavioral therapy:
Adjust these factors and avoid medication using behavioral therapy.
I erased it from the tips section, as it is no longer needed there.
But, seeing as I already mentioned that other treatment forms include the use of medication and the topic just calls for treatments without medication, I did not change anything else.
Thank you. Have a great day!
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