Excerpts
from:
ADHD: A Path to Success
Life through the Eyes of an Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Child
"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.
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.
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."
My understanding of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is deeply rooted in my own experience. I was an ADHD child. I am now a Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist.
Parents, there is hope.
Why My Interest in ADHD
Professionally, I have been working with these 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. 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
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.
