ADHD: Deliverance from homework hell

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ADHD: A Path to Success

By Lawrence Weathers, Ph.D.
APractice limited to children 5-18 and their familiesDHD

Introduction

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Life Through the Eyes of an Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Child adhd

With terror in my heart, I can still remember sitting in emotional and almost physical pain at Palm Elementary School in Beaumont, California. It was fourth grade, and what was going on in the classroom was beyond my attention. That's because my mind had escaped. Looking out the window was my only escape from the endless monotony of the classroom. adhd chapters first free online read chapters first free online read
Being "jerked back" when the teacher called on me, was overwhelming and nauseating. I felt I had missed so much while being "spaced out" that the demands seemed insurmountable. I had no clue where to begin. adhd

Since I felt little hope of being rewarded for my feeble efforts, my biggest desire was to escape on another mental vacation. That is exactly what I did. My mind traveled out the window again — even though I dimly knew that I was digging myself into a deeper hole. As self-defeating as this strategy was, it was my only defense. adhd

My understanding of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is deeply rooted in my own experience. I was an ADHD child. I am now a Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist with a thriving and successful practice. adhd

Parents, there is hope for you and your ADHD child.

Why My Interest in ADHD

Professionally, I have been working with ADHD children since 1971. For the first twenty years I read the books, took courses, and did the therapy as prescribed. As hard as I tried to make it work, the theoretical picture did not seem to fit the children I was seeing, nor did the prescribed therapy approaches prove very useful.

In 1991, I began to develop a radically different approach to psychotherapy for all of my patients, ADHD and others. This led to the invention of a computerized psychotherapy machine, Computer Aided Emotional Restructuring (CAER).

Computer Aided Emotional Restructuring is a new, patented, treatment that sprang from another new therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMD/R). (EMD/R is fully explained in chapter 24).

Unlike traditional therapies, CAER does not depend much on talking. Rather, it taps powerful neurological mechanisms to elicit deep relaxation and vivid mental imagery. When these two effects are juxtaposed, pathology-producing emotions are extinguished through a process called desensitization.

More simply put, CAER uses lights and sound to help the ADHD child enter a relaxed state. Then, the relaxed and calm child, with the aid and supervision of a therapist, imagines an anxiety-provoking situation — such as school. Quickly, the relaxed state erases the anxiety state so that school, or whatever the provoker might be, no longer causes stress in the child.

No drugs are used at all.

Initially I used Computer Aided Emotional Restructuring on my adult patients who had a variety of common problems such as depression, anxiety, phobias and marriage problems. The results were exciting. Many times these problems were eradicated in just a few sessions.

Therefore, I began to extend the procedure to other problems not commonly addressed by EMD/R, including ADHD. Even with my early, primitive CAER machines, the results were striking.

I really did not know why CAER works, but two different sources began to yield insights. By reflecting on my own difficult school history and listening to the ADHD children themselves, my understanding developed. These children were telling me about feelings and experiences that I could remember well from my own school years.

That's why ADHD: A Path to Success is a story of hope for parents of ADHD children. It is a personal story. It is my story. It is the success story of my patients.

When people describe a specific ADHD child, I'm often left with an image of the kid with a clock mainspring spiraling out of his head and gears raining down. If all of his gears and springs were in right, if his broken parts were fixed, he would work and do what we want.

* Names and identifying characteristics have been changed to protect identity.

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