Jane Fendelman, MC
Posted on 08/01/2006 8:32:42 PM PDT by Flavius
PHOENIX, Aug. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Family counselor Jane Fendelman, MC, has valuable information for parents with school-age children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD). She has a track record of helping families with children who would be considered worst-case scenarios -- without the use of medications like Ritalin, Adderall and Concerta..
In her book "Raising Humane Beings" she writes in depth about what her clients call the "magic cure." In fact, within 3 to 5 sessions, with Fendelman's help, clients see issues resolved for good.
"I call ADD and ADHD the multimillion dollar medical myth," says Fendelman. "Why are diagnoses of ADD and ADHD on the rise in children -- and even in adults? Because we have invented this catch-all name for what is an adaptive response to our fast-paced, highly stimulating modern world. And what's more, drug companies have created medications to suppress this response so we think we have a solution."
Fendelman explains that drugging children is not the same as curing them. In fact, most drugs prescribed for ADD and ADHD contain dangerous amphetamines which are narcotic drugs known to contribute to stunted growth, eating disorders, suicidal ideation, increased risk of diabetes, strokes, cardiac arrest and death.
In fact, no definitive test for ADD and ADHD exists. There is only a list of indicators, as found in the DSM-IVR, the diagnostic manual published by the American Psychiatric Press. Indicators are not definitive.
Fendelman does not argue with the fact that the issues exist. "It's not really a problem in the child, it just shows up in the child," said Fendelman. "That's why it is so easy to cure it in 3 to 5 sessions."
"It is my mission to tell as many people as possible and help parents get their children off of medication once and for all," said Fendelman. "We are drugging our children unnecessarily and missing out on the creativity and ingenuity of an entire generation. It is as sad as it is dangerous."
For more than 15 years Fendelman has successfully delivered her life-changing, drug-free solutions for children diagnosed with ADD and ADHD. As a result of her methods, Fendelman has seen an entire generation grow up drug-free.
ADD is a catch-all diagnosis for: lack of discipline, lack of respect, staying up late, watching TV, and lots of other things. I think its also due to the anti-male attitude of many of the feminist NEA teachers.
But IMHO the main reason is poor diet and too much sugar! You don't know how much sugar we consume until you try the Atkin's diet and check the carbohydrate amount on the package. This parallels the epidemic of obesity we see everyday.
You can't undo bad child rearing.
It does exist. I was also an undiagnosed case because I didn't act our in class. I drifted, daydreamed, drew pictures, and it was rarely that I didn't try to pay attention. The way it is for me is like trying to grab and hold onto oiled nylon ropes, it would just slip away from me. In college this hurt bad, eventually I left wondering why I couldn't hack it in a class room. In my adult life I believe this has led to me going from job to job and always looking for the next horizon.
Now thatI have identified it, I am using strategies to help me focus. Knowing is a lot of the battle.
I guess if you have to blame somebody, might as well be bad parents... Because we all know that good parents only raise perfect angels for children. *rolls eyes*
I find it troubling when a medical issue becomes the plaything of a political ideology, in this case conservatism. Smirks from know it alls who do NOT know it all are not a viable approach to medical issues. The condition exists and I know the histories of kids who are very much affected by it. These kids' parents would have given their right arms to cure the condition in 5 easy lessons. It's not that simple.
The condition has nothing to do with discipline and has likely existed through out mans history but was not a problem as sensory stimulation was not as it is today. The problem is the sensory triggering events {bombardment} were not prevalent up until the past two decades. I would take any child who exhibits ADD ADHD or learning problems for testing. BTW my sources on this do not come from mental health related sites but rather sites related to Vestibular Disorders. IOW no skewing from Big Pharm. Audiologist and Speech Pathologist can not prescribe any medications :>}
Sometimes the Dr. needs to go beyond the normal "patch" tests for allergies because it's more systemic than superficial. The results I've seen are remarkable...and it just takes adjusting the diet a bit.
Could you repeat that, I wasn't paying attention. Seriously, good post with first-hand knowledge.
It does exist. . . Now thatI have identified it, I am using strategies to help me focus. Knowing is a lot of the battle.I feel the same way, just knowing that there is a battle to fight helps.
The neuro-normals among us have a hard time accepting that some people's brains are just different.
I like your analogy, although my favorite is that living life with ADHD is like playing tennis with a pickaxe.
Now I can stop and enjoy life. Spending time with my kids, sitting on the porch in the evening, reading... I can finally be the man I've always wanted to be. Methylphenidate has been one of the best things that ever happened to me.
Only a "classic liberal" would make such a statement. It is learned early on in Liberal Basic Training that responsibility is something to be placed elsewhere. If you are overly impulsive, I am sorry to hear that, but what pill or shot or holistic treatment is going to make you better able to control yourself? I submit none! Maybe if mommy or daddy or the guy mommy was shacking up with had put a boot in your A$$ when you were growing up you would have learned some self control. Good luck with the pills, do they have anything to help me balance my checkbook?
over 80% of the kids prescribed ritilin are boys.
I know I'm probably going to get flamed or have some people roll their eyes, but I truely believe its part of the "vaginization" agenda of public school system in the US where everything is about empowering girls and everything is about making sure the girls succeed and boys are supposed to just shutup, stop acting like boys, and act like robots.
Any display of normal male behavior, the parents are called in, told the boy has ADD, and get him on ritilin or he'll be put in special ed.
Subjects that will trigger boatloads of uninformed hoo-hah on FR include:
Pit bulls (it ain't the animal, it's the person that raised it); reporters and "automatic" weapons (hey, the AP got an esoteric fact wrong on a rare weapon, so the whole report is biased; circumcision (it's barbaric and kills all sensation...and gives the "victims" of it something to bitch about their whole adult lives); and of course ADD and ADHD (it ain't the animal, it's the person that raised it).
Even if there were scientific and medical evidence proving the existence of these conditions (as there is, by the way), 80 percent of the people here discount them out of hand--as a conspiracy from the MSM, the NEA, Big Pharm and Big Med (where do they meet, to work out the details--and do they ever get into squabbles, with other, overlapping conspiracies?).
Why can't this be a reasonable assumption: the conditions are real, but sadly they are much overdiagnosed in our society. Didn't anyone here every have a brother, uncle or cousin who "just couldn't stay with anything"--couldn't keep a job, friends, often didn't finish things? For those of you who say, It's the way the parents raised him...uh, why were his sisters and/or brothers successful, and he wasn't? Did the parents raise three kids right...but dropped the ball on this one? A lifetime of failing gets hammeered into a person over years, and soon enough, he lives right up to everyone's low expectations.
I checked out the expert from the article--she seems incomprehensible to me.
I'll leave you all with two thoughts:
If the condition doesn't exist...why the hell is she curing it?
How is that so many people on this forum can be reasonable and intelligent one moment, but the second that their particular trigger-issue comes up, they turn into knuckle-dragging ignoramuses?
No flames from me, I couldn't agree more!
I'm not necessarily denighing ADD, but what about children with problems in controlling themselves and part of it being biological/chemical problems?
I knew a guy about 19 or so who could not control himself at work. He would just constently talk and swear without any control over what he was doing. I was told later from another friend he had ADD or ADHD and that he refused to take his medicine. When he would, he had much more self control.
"In fact, no definitive test for ADD and ADHD exists. There is only a list of indicators, as found in the DSM-IVR, the diagnostic manual published by the American Psychiatric Press. Indicators are not definitive."
Correct, it's all synthetic standards and subjective opinions from people with purely economic and political motives.
I was diagnosed at 30. The medication did help me to concentrate and complete tasks, and helped me alot in social interactions. But after 9 years of taking medication, I decided to deal with it myself. I've been off the medication for 8 years, and really appreciate feeling like my own self. I'm not one to give advice alot, but after you realize how the medication makes you react differently to your world, in the future try not taking it for a while, and see if you can deal with the problem yourself. As one who has been through it, I mean this sincerely. I remember the feeling of being able to "stop and enjoy life" once I got help, but trust me, you will be able to enjoy life in the same way without the meds.
Good Luck
It's not my fault, it's my parents. Is there a pill I can take for this condition?????
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