ADHD Treatment: The Shocking Results After 8 Years
You start medication or therapy, things get better, and then a few years later the old struggles creep back in. You wonder if you did something wrong.
This week, Skye Waterson is joined by Will Curb from Hacking Your ADHD for a Research Recap on the MTA study, the largest and most influential ADHD treatment trial ever conducted. Nearly 580 children were followed for 8 years to understand what happened after the initial treatment period.
Together, Skye and Will unpack why the early differences between medication, behavioral therapy, combined treatment, and community care had largely disappeared by year 8. This is not a conversation about whether medication works. It is about what happens when ADHD is treated as a one time solution instead of an ongoing condition that changes as life becomes more demanding.
What You'll Learn:
- Why the MTA study followed nearly 580 children across four treatment approaches
- Why medication use dropped to about one third of participants by year 8
- Why even participants who remained on medication lost their early advantage
- Why ADHD is better understood as a condition that requires sustained management
- What "pills don't teach skills" really means for long term ADHD management
Learn more about Will and Hacking Your ADHD:
https://www.youtube.com/@HackingYourADHD
About ADHD founders for ADHD founders.
Interesting in working together? You can click here to receive a free bottleneck audio session and learn more about what we do. https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/unstuckaudiosession
Diagnosed with ADHD at the start of her PhD, Skye Waterson spent years researching what actually works and writing about it for thousands of founders. The pattern she kept finding: ADHD business owners don't have a focus problem, they have an operations problem, because the whole business runs through their own head. Now she and her husband, former programmer Robert Waterson, work as fractional COOs for those founders. They find the bottleneck, hire the fix, and build the system that holds.
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You start medication or therapy, things get better, and then a few years later the old struggles creep back in. You wonder if you did something wrong.
This week, Skye Waterson is joined by Will Curb from Hacking Your ADHD for a Research Recap on the MTA study, the largest and most influential ADHD treatment trial ever conducted. Nearly 580 children were followed for 8 years to understand what happened after the initial treatment period.
Together, Skye and Will unpack why the early differences between medication, behavioral therapy, combined treatment, and community care had largely disappeared by year 8. This is not a conversation about whether medication works. It is about what happens when ADHD is treated as a one time solution instead of an ongoing condition that changes as life becomes more demanding.
What You'll Learn:
- Why the MTA study followed nearly 580 children across four treatment approaches
- Why medication use dropped to about one third of participants by year 8
- Why even participants who remained on medication lost their early advantage
- Why ADHD is better understood as a condition that requires sustained management
- What "pills don't teach skills" really means for long term ADHD management
Learn more about Will and Hacking Your ADHD:
https://www.youtube.com/@HackingYourADHD
About ADHD founders for ADHD founders.
Interesting in working together? You can click here to receive a free bottleneck audio session and learn more about what we do. https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/unstuckaudiosession
Diagnosed with ADHD at the start of her PhD, Skye Waterson spent years researching what actually works and writing about it for thousands of founders. The pattern she kept finding: ADHD business owners don't have a focus problem, they have an operations problem, because the whole business runs through their own head. Now she and her husband, former programmer Robert Waterson, work as fractional COOs for those founders. They find the bottleneck, hire the fix, and build the system that holds.
Subscribe to our Newsletter - https://unconventionalorganization.substack.com/
Follow us on Instagram - @unconventionalorganisation
Visit our website - https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/
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