Potential causes of the ADD Symptoms
What causes Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) behavioral symptoms? Why is it that some people have them temporarily and in others they persist over time? Is it possible that the symptoms are caused by different life events which need to be treated differently? My attempt to answer these questions follows.
My belief is that the symptoms of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) are caused by the perception that the mind is out of control which generates behavioral symptoms that they also cannot control. This out of control mind can be initially caused by any one or any combination of the following:
1. High stress and anxiety.
2. Emotional trauma – Unresolved past trauma or current trauma.
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4. Attitude – A bad attitude can be caused by boredom, or not being turned on to or forced to do certain activities such as chores or school work. Also, not knowing HOW to do the required tasks makes the tasks very distasteful and makes them angry because they see no sense for it. For most students, this traumatizes them every day in school. This increases the stress and anxiety and makes them even more angry and rebellious. The buildup of this stress leads to the Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) Symptoms and other anti-social behaviors.
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5. Communication gaps between the child and parents/teachers, which again increases the stress and the resultant anger and rebellion. For example, most with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) Symptoms have a rather tight Visual/Kinesthetic connection. In other words, what they see, they physically react to and/or what they feel, they try to visualize. If a parent/teacher, tries to talk to them, they do NOT process the auditory information very well since their primary world is either visual or kinesthetic. It is a simple instruction to the communication sender or receiver to overlap the auditory to visual or kinesthetic. Since this does not normally happen, many persons with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) symptoms view their parents and teachers as repetitive, boring, and unwanted advice givers and not to be listened to.
6. Physical reaction -- to large amounts of sugar or junk food or allergies (usually food) or food additives and environmental toxins to which they have a negative physical reaction. For many with the Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) Symptoms, sugar and simple carbohydrates create a high which shows up as hyperactivity and other Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) symptoms followed by an energy slump. Listlessness and apathy occur when the sugar is depleted from the body. Much of this sugar and simple carbohydrates comes from their intake of junk food. The intake of toxic environmental substances also contributes to this physical reaction.
Factor 3 can be helped by going to a good health food store or to a physician or dietician who is knowledgeable about Candida. Books such as "The Yeast Syndrome" or "The Yeast Connection" can also help. Professionals such as Allergists, Dieticians, Physicians, Psychologists and Therapists are equipped to handle factors 1, 2 and 6. Factors 4 and 5 as well as the perception or belief that the mind is out of control can be dealt with by psychologists and therapists and is covered in the book "Rediscover the Joy of Learning" written by this author (www.nlpok.com).
This article was written by Don A. Blackerby, Ph.D. founder of Success Skills, Inc.
Success Skills specializes in helping struggling students of all ages who are experiencing all sorts of different kinds of difficulties. Penn Henthorn currently runs Success Skill, Inc., and the processes that he uses are very different from the normal type of help struggling students receive. He is a personal development coach. He teaches students HOW to use their mind to succeed in school. He teaches them learning strategies that really work. He also teaches them ways to think about school and learning that "turn them on" to school and motivates them to want to succeed.
He also specializes in helping students who have been diagnosed with learning disabilities such as Dyslexia and Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD).
Contact Penn Henthorn today for a free initial interview to find out how he can help by calling him at 1-405-562-6670 or by e-mailing him at info@nlpok.com. More information can also be obtained off of the web site www.nlpok.com.
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