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Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder (eBook)
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- Print Length: 367 pages
- In this breakthrough guide to understanding, treating, and healing Attention Deficit Disorder, Dr. Gabor Maté, bestselling author of 'The Myth of Normal', and himself diagnosed with ADD:
- Demonstrates that the condition is not a genetic "illness" but a response to environmental stress.
- Explains that in ADD, circuits in the brain whose job is emotional self-regulation and attention control fail to develop in infancy – and why.
- Shows how 'distractibility' is the psychological product of life experience.
- Allows parents to understand what makes their ADD children tick, and adults with ADD to gain insights into their emotions and behaviors.
- Expresses optimism about neurological development even in adulthood.
- Presents a program of how to promote this development in both children and adults.
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Various Retailers have Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder (eBook) by Gabor Maté on sale for $1.99.
Thanks to community member phoinix for finding this deal.
Additional Savings:
Thanks to community member phoinix for finding this deal.
Additional Savings:
- Amazon Prime members can redeem their earned 'No Rush Shipping' credits on this purchase (check your balance).
- Amazon (Kindle)
- Books A Million
- Print Length: 367 pages
- In this breakthrough guide to understanding, treating, and healing Attention Deficit Disorder, Dr. Gabor Maté, bestselling author of 'The Myth of Normal', and himself diagnosed with ADD:
- Demonstrates that the condition is not a genetic "illness" but a response to environmental stress.
- Explains that in ADD, circuits in the brain whose job is emotional self-regulation and attention control fail to develop in infancy – and why.
- Shows how 'distractibility' is the psychological product of life experience.
- Allows parents to understand what makes their ADD children tick, and adults with ADD to gain insights into their emotions and behaviors.
- Expresses optimism about neurological development even in adulthood.
- Presents a program of how to promote this development in both children and adults.
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Written by StrawMan86 | Staff- About this deal:
- Offer valid for a limited time while supplies last.
- Ratings & Reviews:
- Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars based on over 1,030 customer reviews.
- About this store:
- Don't have Amazon Prime? Students can get a free 6-Month Amazon Prime trial with free 2-day shipping, unlimited video streaming & more.
- If you're not a student, there's also a free 1-Month Amazon Prime trial available.
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If you like his theories and takes, more power to the reader but don't let the doctor in front of his name fool you that he's an actual expert in the field. He's writing for a popular audience but no one is citing his work or building on it.
Firstly, no idea why some people are mentioning ADHD - if you have ADHD you likely have NOTHING in common with many of us with ADD as ADHD is mainly a chemical issue that is often preventable and easily correctable and ADD is generally caused by actual brain deformation/damage. To entirely different things but all the ADHD ppl failed to pay attention long enough to differentiate.. I have known MANY ADHD fools and ADD draws NO PARALLEL. ADHD is more of a choice not to pay attention and focus, ADD you actually don't necessarily have the brain mechanism to do so! That is a wildly different symptom! Please do not compare the two or lump them together! 99% they have nothing in common.
As a person with the SYMPTOM called ADD the actual illness that causes mine is an overgrowth of a cerebrospinalfluid filled cystern in the skull. This caused an impact on Cerrebellum size and in order to have proper motor control and such my brain needs to "borrow" processing power from the parts that otherwise could be used for Social brain function. (Social and critical though cannot occur simultaneously it has been found through fMRI)
So while one person pretends it is their disease I am sitting here with it being the symptom of mine, a mild one compared to the PAIN and mobility issues from the actual brain deformation (Dandy Walker Syndrome, ie: CNS Cyst)
That is NOT to say that it isn't a REAL SYMPTOM, it just is not itself a disease. Much like Depression, depression is NOT an emotional state or an illness, it is a composite state of being. You are generally down and out in general, suffered recent major or successive losses, have eaten poorly (this is generally the key, especially in suicide there is ALWAYS L-Tryptophan deficiency in the diet...or at least absorption of it to make Serotonin).
If you read a book like this PLEASE take it with an open mind. If your lawn is covered in leaves you do not have a Leaf Infestation Disease - you simply own Trees, and they do that. Do not view SYMPTOMS as the actual DISEASE if your Doctor cannot think of WHY the condition is present then it likely is a symptom and not the root cause. You will stay sick till the day you die if you view these buzzword "illnesses" (which are really symptoms of greater systemic issues) as true illnesses rather than doing the REAL HARD WORK of discovering how mammalian health actually works. (It is super simple, we are barely harder to maintain than plants)
Bear in mind, most causes of ADD cannot be "healed" - it may be possible to breed the underlying cause out after 2 generations or more but in many cases it's not a thing that can be cured.
If you like his theories and takes, more power to the reader but don't let the doctor in front of his name fool you that he's an actual expert in the field. He's writing for a popular audience but no one is citing his work or building on it.
Never mentioned in "correcting" ADD/ADHD is simply adapting your environment and lifestyle to the way your brain functions. Do you see a dog trying to dance? No, a dog cannot dance so it does not try. Humans think we are all the same and different at the same time, which makes no sense - none two of us are equal. We need to adapt to our inequalities and accept that they are OK and live our lives according to them harmoniously.
What good are views on current events when people still aren't intelligent enough 80-100 years later to comprehend historic events like World Wars and their impacts on the world, mindset, etc? Heck, CURRENT world events are STILL being lead by the World Wars, there is an ongoing issue with Israel (it was stolen land in the 1940s and isn't an actual country) and NO CURRENT VIEW has anything to do with the historic issue coming to light. Same with Ukraine, that is a 100 year old issue and NEW VIEWPOINTS are actually the entire problem.
We want to say Person A is "right" based on current perspectives when if you actually knew your history the opposite viewpoint would clearly be "correct". That is the problem with opinions, they don't necessarily respect the actual data points that are there.
PS - Used Kobo Store since it's a lot more open after some research.
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