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Interesting that the article goes down the route of providing more stimulus to help treat ADHD.. wonder if there's also a case for reducing our need for more st

Interesting that the article goes down the route of providing more stimulus to help treat ADHD.. wonder if there's also a case for reducing our need for more stimuli (e.g. with mindfulness or meditation) or whether that's just too against the grain of how we are moving as a society (in to a more digital, multi-tasked world)

ahknight 12y ago
That's a whole different topic, even though to an outsider they may seem related by the stimuli concept. ADHD is an impulse control disorder. Increasing the stimulus levels of positive things around such a person induces a natural focus to those things. Reducing stimuli would alternately induce sleep or painful boredom that will express itself in highly random and chaotic ways after a short time. Sometimes I think it would be a good idea to turn everything off and read a book. When I wake up after trying that I realize how many times I've tried it before and it's at least a few days before I get the idea again...
toodles1234 12y ago
> wonder if there's also a case for reducing our need for more stimuli (e.g. with mindfulness or meditation) A study was done in Australia ten years ago on a type of meditation that encourages you to be more mindful to see what effect it can have on ADHD. Children were able to reduce or even cut out their medication completely after completing the meditation program. http://ccp.sagepub.com/content/9/4/479.abstract http://ccp.sagepub.com/content/9/4/479.abstract http://www.m.sahajayogaportal.org/papers/manocha.pdf http://www.m.sahajayogaportal.org/papers/manocha.pdf (non-paywall link)