4/10 for seeking a medical professional, but then goes off the rails with an impractical & ineffective half-solution. One reviewer here (and this video) likened drugs to a bandage over a wound, but then diverted wildly to assert the causality & remedy are merely learned behaviors. And yes, I agree that ADHD is an injury that requires a bandage, because it covers a wound and allows scars to heal and the body function to compensate. It's a vastly-documented fact that 75% of adult ADHD patients have 10-30% less prefrontal cortex neuron density than other cortex areas ... in other words, the brain didn't finish "baking" while the fetus was developing in-utero ... while the other 25% arrived at ADHD presentations via Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) or a disruption in brain hormone levels. A correct & regularly-monitored prescription can assist the prefrontal cortex to "keep up" with the rest of the brain's activity, and particularly tone down the amygdala (emotional control switch), just like insulin carries a diabetic across low-glucose lapses. But prescriptions only last for 6-12 hours, and don't shield the person from ALL emotional disregulation, and that's where learned skills like Dr. Bob's can help. 30% of ADHD kids will eventually "grow out" of the condition through brain growth, but for Ted, it's likely his inability to concentrate for long periods, lack of impulse control, and ruminating on any past failures will hold him back from his fullest potential in work & life, whereas a correct & regularly-monitored prescription will give him the bandage he needs so the injury doesn't spill out, affect others, or re-route his attention. Drugs aren't the cure, and patients' lives will drastically improve when the "primitive reflexes" are strengthened through sleep, exercise, diet, and a supportive environment. This video helps show the chronic difficulties of ADHD, but without a prescriptive bandage to focus the person's attention into a single direction, then the patient's emotional disregulation (with the amygdala controlling the patient's impulses), will continue to drive the patient's attention in every direction but straight ahead where they WANT to go.
Review of Attention Please
