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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The breakthrough guide to understanding treating and healing attention deficit disorder from renowned mental health expert and speaker Dr Gabor Mat

With a new preface by the author

From the bestselling author of When the Body Says No and The Myth of Normal Scattered Minds explodes the myth of attention deficit disorder ADD/ADHD as genetically basedand offers real hope and advice for children and adults who live with the condition In it Mat who himself is diagnosed with ADD

Demonstrates that the condition is not a genetic illness but a response to environmental stress and how distractibility is the psychological product of life experience
Explains how ADD/ADHD can arise when circuits in the brain whose job is emotional selfregulation and attention control can fail to develop in infancyand why
Allows parents to understand what makes their children with ADD/ADHDtick and helps adults with ADD/ADHD gain insights into their emotions and behaviours
Expresses optimism about neurological development even in adulthood
Presents a program of how to promote this development in both children and adults

and much more

Mat gives voice to the painful realities of ADD/ADHD and its effect on children as well as on careers and social paths in adults Moving beyond genetic riskhe focuses on the things we can control changes in environment family dynamics and parenting choices He draws heavily on his own experience with the disorder as someone diagnosed with ADD and as the parent of three diagnosed children

Providing a thorough overview of ADD/ADHD and its treatments Scattered Minds is essential and lifechanging reading for parents and the millions of diagnosed adults in North America today