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Probably because they were doing more than laying in one place with a low
body temperature. A big part of the question involves how you define living:
Pumping blood and exchanging gasses or interacting with one's environment in
some meaningful fashion, and risking all the things that being really alive
exposes you to.
Low thyroid is low quality of life generally. Sleeping through most of it is
no fun, whether it was closed eye sleep, or the kind where you're in kind of
a daze but doing things anyways.
>
> While I was beginning to feel embarrassed that taking him off thyroid
> actually helped his behavior problems,
Which also points out another item to be aware of. Just because someone with
low thyroid is treated, doesn't mean (s)he's going to get nicer. It may be
they were mean, just didn't have the energy to show it.
If an ADDHD child is medicated with ritalin, it calms them down. Why were
they that way to begin with? It may be that many kids act up when they are
tired. In some cases, they really need thyroid treatment. But, if you ask the
teacher, she'd rather have them on ritalin because it makes them quiet. Of
course, since discipline in schools is a bit different than when I was in school,
I'm not sure what they can do with misbehaving children other than medicate.
My favorite teachers used to be the ones that used the paddles. If I'm not
mistaken, that now they get positive reinforcement, candy, for being good.
That's a real improvement. Giving sugar to children who may be ADD. But, of
course studies have said sugar makes no difference in children's behavior. Mine
must be unusual.
Skipper
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