What is ADHD?
Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder or commonly known as ADHD, is one of the most common mental disorders affecting children. The affected children usually exhibit symptoms such as inability to focus, excessive movement which are not suited to the circumstances and impulsive actions.
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Conventional treatments involved prescription of medications, behavioral therapy, etc.
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However, according to Gabor Mate, a Canadian physician, ADHD is NOT a disease. When facing stress or emotional difficulties, one would usually respond by flight or fight mode. But in the event that these options are not available, for instance, in the case of a child with stressed out parents, the child absorbs the stress and he or she tunes out. The tuning out is then programmed into the brain and the prolonged tuning out leads to ADHD when in actual fact, it is a coping mechanism that is no longer working.