Comments on: What you don’t know will hurt you!

By: Dr Charles Parker

Dr Charles Parker — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:00:54 +0000

Bryan,
As you well know, many of us are singing from the same hymnal! And the good news is… we are singing to the same timing.

Cadence counts. No toes are stepped on.

My own take on the pain of ‘what we didn’t know’… it drives us to further, deeper understanding, and, as with your good work, to the strength and courage to tell it from the mountain. Pain is the ultimate teacher.

Final analysis: ADHD is predominantly a contextual disorder, occurring in the context of changing reality… and if our challenging realities didn’t change, we wouldn’t arrive at these new conclusions – we would die in suffering and ignorance, as many have.

Hard to see ADHD if you are only working to pick cotton, or drive a combine.

Reality, over in medicine land, is changing dramatically, and your story punctuates the complexity of change in our past system of labels and simple description.

New technology, new measuring systems in the laboratory, and the functional brain scans, do provide much new information for those willing to listen.

Regrettably, as you know, some have either simply not had enough pain, or didn’t understand the complexity of what for years seemed like a simple childhood problem.

My take on that issue: the public will tell the docs what works for them, if they have specific targets, and understand the specific trajectory of the weapons we are firing. The docs do want to hear what works on that pain, but themselves are confused about multiple research findings that often don’t apply to office practice, to the trenches of life.

Thanks for the mention, – I do hope my book will change the landscape you document so well.
cp

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:43:20 +0000

Lieve,

Very, very, very good point in context. When I was in Flensburg a few years ago, the weather was miserable and we wanted to drive over to Denmark for the day and spend it at the beach… well, we didn’t expect things to turn out that well because of the weather; however, when we got to our destination the sun was out and it was very warm, it was beautiful. Such a nice surprise!

Children have the wonder of the world before them, with many fantastic surprises in store for them – I always love opening my birthday presents, even to this day and I love to be surprised with wonderful new presents! Yep, still a kid at heart.

The caveat is in the context of the surprise.

By: lieve

lieve — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:38:35 +0000

What you don’t know will hurt you?
Perhaps
Or is might brighten up your day
for what you don’t know is yet to be discovered
and on every thing that is negative
there is a positive otherside

By: Ron sorensons

Ron sorensons — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:54:05 +0000

This is what I have been telling us all this adhd is a GREAT BEAUTIFUL BLESSED GIFT dont miss it go inside learn abuot you yourself and see with your heart taht you are much more than SMART.

NEVER stpo learning about yourself its awesome and it makes you grow and flow.

PEACE explre the gift ………….