Attention Please (2018) User Reviews

What garbage. Watch The Disrupters instead *spoilers*

[Malibukitten · 11 March 2023]

I tried to watch this, but I was obsessed with why NO ONE NOTICED the typo of PSYCHOACTIVE (in the film, spelled PYSCHOACTIVE). I'm sorry, but HOW MANY PEOPLE were involved with this project and NOT ONE saw the typo? And why people should take their advice when they can't even catch a glaringly obvious mistake? From what I actually saw, and the reviews here confirm it, these people are saying that diet, exercise, schedules, etc will help your child succeed WITHOUT any rx, NOPE. Fact: I was eating healthy, worked out daily and took kickboxing 3x a week, took my vitamins....but I STILL was "spacy", "lazy", forgetful, tired, caffeine didn't work, etc. I just thought that this is how I was made. When I found out I had ADHD so late in life, I was relieved that I knew why I was like that. But then, I was v depressed because I realized that because of this condition, my life was HARDER than a 'normal' brained person. If you think your child has ADHD, don't deny them a "kind of normal" life with medication. It's a chemical imbalance in their brain, would you deny a diabetic insulin? Deny a poor sighted person glasses? No. And not all ADHD medication is a stimulant (not that there's ANYTHING wrong with a stimulant, it's how I can function instead of not doing simple things like laundry, grocery shopping, school pickups, etc.), some build up in your system and help with anxiety. Either way, if your child needs help and that means meds, HELP THEM. ALSO, look into PANDAS, it's a disorder that happens after a child gets the strep virus and causes a chemical change in their brain, totally related to ADHD..

More people should investigate and know about this

[gymark-57757 · 10/10 · 11 September 2020]

Gives a great insight into the process and treatment, if only more people would look into this as it moves away from the whole prescribing drug. Drugs are just putting a band aid over an injury rather than investigating why you have the injury in the first place and how to fix it.

Film POV feels very ableist and negative

[Smartiebell · 2/10 · 23 August 2022]

Asd and adhd are more than just their external presentations. Whilst I don't doubt that some sort of physical manipulation is beneficial I'm nowhere near convinced that it's due to the reasons they describe in this film.

There's zero mention of emotional regulation, styles of communication, hyperfocus, hypermobility etc...

One little boy who was clearly very fearful of all things (sound sensitive, restrictive diet) before treatment, was described after treatment as now being confident and popular at school, as if people who are adhd and/or asd can't be confident and popular at school

Nothing about this film seems to be data driven (other than some stats on labelled people in prisons and how much adhd costs the US)

I'd like to see some autistics involved in studying this theory, the techniques used and their results. I wonder whether is the trauma that's being removed rather than the adhd/asd that's being described.

Preparing to start this program after seeing this!

[michellelcalvert · 10/10 · 12 June 2021]

Update: our son is partway through the process and is now sleeping better, is more cheerful, is engaging with others better, has improved communication, and is doing so much better! We were so impressed that I started researching and decided to try it for myself. My chronic migraines are linked to the ATNR reflex and have practically disappeared. No meds involved, only daily exercises. If anyone wants to learn more about reflex integration and primitive reflexes, here are some key experts: Sally Goddard Blythe (INPP method) Robert Melillo (Melillo Method) Svetlana Masgutova (MNRI method) Harald Blomberg and Moira Dempsey (Rhythmic Movement method) Sonia Story (hybrid method) Bette Lamonte (hybrid method) Bonnie Brandes (QRI method)

Original post: Thank goodness some sweet random grandma suggested this documentary in a social media group I am in. Amazing documentary and we found an American therapist who does this exact therapy and will start working with our son soon! We are on a waitlist for a regular occupational therapist but apparently the waitlists are very long. Then I found this documentary. This sounds more promising!

ADHD is a physical neurological disability

[Cornelus · 4/10 · 28 February 2022]

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.

Everyone should watch this

[charlenekinley · 10/10 · 4 February 2023]

This should definitely be more widely circulated. In it Bob Allen, an alternative medicine practitioner, looks at children and adults who are "on the spectrum" and how it could be physiological rather than psychological. It is evidenced in the documentary how working with Bob Allen, or others like him, could help drastically improve symptoms associated with these "labels" without the need for any medication. It follows the journey of children who have worked with Bob and they're able to function "normally". Very interesting and well worth a watch, his theories and methods should be more widely recognised.

Citation Needed!

[jellyfish5 · 3/10 · 7 May 2024]

To call this a "documentary" is a bold move. It's more like a "making of," the way it's repeatedly mentioned that a documentary is being made despite the contents being of little substance, shaky-cam in the practitioner's office, and the presenter inexplicably being filmed driving in her car.

I would like to know why the practitioner, Bob Allen, was initially reluctant to be included in this short. I am also desperate to know why this short is absent of any scientific data surrounding retained reflexes. It only had stats on ADHD diagnoses in prison populations which the "documentary" makers -speculate- could be due to retained reflexes. An RP accent does not an authority make.

I'm glad this alternative therapy worked for her son, but how are we expected to be persuaded with no evidence? I agree with "labelling the problem, not the child" and that retained reflexes could be responsible for developmental issues that affect reading and socialising. But what is it about the therapy that inhibits these reflexes beyond providing a safe, calming environment for x minutes a week over months or years?

A 2022 scoping review of a similar reflex integration method (the Masgutova Neurosensorimotor Reflex Integration method, or MNRI method) labelled it a controversial therapy after finding a lack of rigorous studies, no randomised controlled study, and "significant flaws in the research." It's not holding up to scrutiny, yet practitioners are making a lot of money from their closely guarded methods.

I'm disappointed by the poor quality of both the film-making and the contents because I want reflex integration therapy to be backed by sound evidence, but none has been presented. Desperate parents will try anything, gullible people will believe anything. I'm glad it worked for some (what percentage of patients? Not mentioned, would you believe it!) but this has not convinced me the therapy is anything more than smoke, mirrors, and a drop of snake oil.

Lifesaving

[smiledaydream · 10/10 · 10 July 2022]

I come from before the time when so many misbehaved children were given drugs. I don't know that it was better or worse but I'm so glad I was not put on drugs when I was a kid. What I do know is treatment for PTSD has helped me. And I still strive now to know why being touched on my back makes me jump. Why I can't have normal touch relationships. And I don't want a drug to make that better. I take a mild drug for OCD but mainly work with tools and therapy. But I know now I have to seek someone about touch. This is my body reacting. Every time I take too much of a drug I lose part of myself. I don't think those of us who love this movie think this is the only movie that should exist on the idea of not taking drugs to help children. But it certainly is one.