Medications are perceived as safe solutions, especially for various mental health conditions. Usually, when parents discover that their kids are struggling with their mental health, their primary solution is to have their kids take medications. Like two sides of a coin, medications both have its pros and cons. The cons, however, are not entirely acknowledged or made known to patients and parents. Research studies show that 100% of the time, your child will have a side effect from medications. These side effects are usually shown through your child’s irritability, sleep problems, and restricted eating. So, despite many stimulants and psychostimulants, the brain is not going to work in its optimal condition. Thus, there’s a need to open that up for discussion and help you understand the reasons and repercussions why you shouldn’t medicate your child with ADHD, anxiety, or other mental health conditions.Psychostimulants and their side effectsBesides the trifecta, irritability, sleep problems, and restricted eating, there are many other side effects to medications, including psychosis, which nobody always wants to talk about and say is rare.These psychostimulants are not going to enhance brain functioning. It's not going to improve the behavior. Using ADD stimulant medication is like tying your foot on the gas panel and just saying “Go!” You don’t have a lot of control.Often, parents get very frustrated because they’re not coming in with new learning, and they don’t know what they are doing differently, which usually causes side effects.100% of the time, some of these side effects are perceived as mild while some of them could be as severe as psychosis, cardiac problems, seizure, and other things.Also, some of these medications are contraindicated for other conditions, which is the second reason why you shouldn't medicate your kid with ADHD.What’s the most common misdiagnosis?50% of the time when doing a QEEG brain map, the person's primary diagnosis is not ADD. In fact, they might not have an ADD brain at all. Rather, they have attention deficits that result from another primary condition. But what else could it be? It could be learning disabilities. Kids with dyslexia are always diagnosed with ADHD, and they have executive functioning issues. But it doesn't mean that they have ADD. They could have autism and other common ones, such as head injuries, birth traumas, or physical and emotional traumas. There are many possible things. There’s really a high risk of being misdiagnosed especially during the pandemic, as people who have no history of focus problems think they have ADHD. Could it be stress? Could it be that you are working from home managing your kids? Maybe. There are many possible reasons.We don’t want to jump to ADD medications as psychostimulants can hurt the brain.It’s easy to get medication because people think it’s safe and there’s no possibility of harming the brain since it’s washed out of the system. However, that’s not entirely true. In fact, that’s going to be our third reason why you shouldn’t treat medication as a primary solution.Don’t jump into ADD medications considering that ADD medications are psychostimulants that can hurt the brain. We know through research that it can create structural changes in the brain, and that these changes are associated with long term negative behaviors. Imagine being given medication by your trusted physician or a pediatrician who has very little training in children's mental health, and you're taking it assuming it’s safe. You’ll most likely have long-term damage in your brain. We know that many psychiatric medications with long-term usage shrinks the frontal lobes, and that's where it's supposed to be helping. So, they're not as safe as you...