Comments on: ADD & Loving It Documentary online hosted by Patrick McKenna

By: Erik T

Erik T — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:42:03 +0000

THe link is dead.

By: Kim Cormack

Kim Cormack — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 19:59:35 +0000

My daughter and I just sat and watched the special on T.V.
We watched it and just loved it.

I P.V.R everything watching commercials drives me nuts. Okay except for that cell phone stalking commercial;)
Back to the point, I have A.D.H.D and both my children do to. I have a sixteen year old, and a six year old. You can just imagine my house in the evening.

Point being their came a time in my life when I looked at it as a gift. I write childrens books the ideas I can come up with are limitless. I say thank you to the A.D.H.D fairy for that. My teenage daughter is a talented writer, with amazing new ideas every five seconds.
The T.V special made us check out the site which I also love.
I need a copy of that show to give to family.
It was awesome

By: Betty

Betty — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:28:35 +0000

I thought the documentary was good. Informative and entertaining. My single biggest reservation and what stood out for me was the loyal, dutiful, and seemingly unflappable Mrs. McKenna. Wow….what a wonderful woman. Makes the rest of us look real bad. So, help me understand. Married to virtually the same checklist layered between all the talent, love, humour and the like, she can honestly sit on a couch in front of a camera and sum it up by saying “Don’t sweat the small stuff”. How trite, simplistic and irresponsible. For as thorough as the show was to have the only voice as the loyal caregiver be that is negligent. A purple dining room indeed. Please. If they had to call the police to calm the man down in a public place, imagine the hurt, hysteria and stress at home. Hang on….I don’t have to imagine. I’m not saying it’s all doom and gloom but on behalf of the other spouses, partners and children living with someone with ADD, please. A more balanced representation of life with ADD should have been presented. Maybe that’s another show but don’t sit there and pretend it’s not a big deal. She knows it is and she should have either been scripted or have been honest enough to acknowledge that. I’m not bitter but I am damaged. There can’t help but be residual damage. Mrs. McKenna is either in denial, faking or, perhaps, possesses God like qualities. Either way, not a balanced perspective.

By: M Curtiss

M Curtiss — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 00:13:45 +0000

Thank you so much for this video… It helped my husband and I more than I can say.
I will be spreading “truths” about ADD from now on!

By: Pete McDonald

Pete McDonald — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 08:57:16 +0000

You have explained my situation and life to a tee. I do not quite know where to go with this from here. I think I need to get reading… Pete McD

By: Andrea Shank

Andrea Shank — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 20:09:16 +0000

Thank you so much for making this video. I have ADHD that was diagnosed after I flunked out of nursing school at Johns Hopkins. The professors couldn’t understand why I wasn’t doing very well, because my undergraduate transcripts were so impressive. They said that I must not be working hard enough. On the contrary, I worked much harder than my peers. I am currently experiencing difficulties as a teacher because the administration of my school doesn’t understand why my being organized is so important to my survival. On a funny note, I always elect a “reminder guy” in my class who tells me where I just put my lesson plan that I was following. I would like to purchase the DVD so that I can show it to my administration so that they will understand me better. I can’t use medication because my system develops a tolerance for the medications and they become ineffective, so I am left to combat it on my own.