Well definitely help him check out Strattera, if he doesn't like the twitchiness of Ritalin or the other stimulants. My husband hasn't had ANY side effects with his current dose, but he did have trouble with sleeplessness at his prescribed dose.

For us, my husband wouldn't consider meds until he heard it from a psych. nurse. Neither his school counselor, our therapist (at the time, a social worker) nor I could talk him into it. The psych. nurse at the clinic explained it in scientific rather than psychological terms, and he seemed to buy into it more readily that way. Thank the stars, I might add.