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Hey there, I'm sorry to give the impression that I think you and those like you should suffer without treatment. I really don't. And I don't believe ADHD is

Hey there, I'm sorry to give the impression that I think you and those like you should suffer without treatment. I really don't. And I don't believe ADHD is a myth or anything like that. Quite the opposite. I just believe we can do better that what the medical profession currently offers. I mean, don't you think it would be a shame if we couldn't? Don't you think it would be great if we could come to fully understand mental illness at a fundamental level, then develop treatments that gave you even better health than what you've already experienced, without the need for stimulant drugs? There is likely to be no higher reason for ADHD and depression to exist. Not wanting to labor the point on a topic that's clearly sensitive to you, but in short: evolutionary theory says there must be a reason why these traits are so widespread. I'll leave it there for now.

tomhoward 11y ago
I should add, in reference to this comment: Countless studies have shown that medication is much much more effective than any form of behavioural therapy (and that BT has an extremely high failure/"relapse" rate). Yes I can accept that. Behavioural therapies tend to be formalised ways of telling patients to "just try harder". They fail because the real issue is below the conscious mind (where "trying harder" works), in the subconscious mind and in the physiology (organ function, gene expression). My personal experience is that there is a highly effective approach to treatment that works both on a physiological (all the way down to gene expression) level and a subconscious emotional level. It may not be widely known or adopted yet, but it is attracting growing interest among ordinary people looking for better answers, if not mainstream science researchers, yet (due, I think, to the perverse economic incentives that prevail in that field, and the professional disincentives to pursue unconventional theories). But from what I can see, it's just a matter of time.

tomhoward 11y ago

I should add, in reference to this comment: Countless studies have shown that medication is much much more effective than any form of behavioural therapy (and that BT has an extremely high failure/"relapse" rate). Yes I can accept that. Behavioural therapies tend to be formalised ways of telling patients to "just try harder". They fail because the real issue is below the conscious mind (where "trying harder" works), in the subconscious mind and in the physiology (organ function, gene expression). My personal experience is that there is a highly effective approach to treatment that works both on a physiological (all the way down to gene expression) level and a subconscious emotional level. It may not be widely known or adopted yet, but it is attracting growing interest among ordinary people looking for better answers, if not mainstream science researchers, yet (due, I think, to the perverse economic incentives that prevail in that field, and the professional disincentives to pursue unconventional theories). But from what I can see, it's just a matter of time.