Scattered Minds
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Scattered Minds
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From renowned mental health expert and speaker Gabor Maté, MD, Scattered Minds explodes the myth of attention deficit disorder (ADD/ADHD) as genetically based—and offers real hope and advice for children and adults who live with the condition. In this breakthrough guide to understanding, treating, and healing attention deficit disorder, Dr. Gabor Maté, an adult with ADD and the father of three ADD children, shares information on: · The external factors that trigger ADD/ADHD · How to create an environment that promotes health and healing · Ritalin and other drugs · ADD in adults …and much more Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD/ADHD) has remained a controversial topic in recent years. Whereas other books on the subject describe the condition as inherited, Dr. Maté shows how our social and emotional environments play a key role in both the cause of and cure for the condition. In Scattered Minds, he describes the painful realities of ADD/ADHD and its effect on children as well as on careers and social paths in adults. While acknowledging that genetics may indeed play a part in predisposing a person toward ADD/ADHD, Maté moves beyond that to focus 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 both an ADD sufferer and the parent of three diagnosed children. Providing a thorough overview of ADD/ADHD and its treatments, Scattered Minds is essential and life-changing reading for the millions of ADD/ADHD sufferers in North America today.
Scattered Minds
Scattered Minds explodes the myth of attention deficit disorder as genetically based – and offers real hope and advice for children and adults who live with the condition. Gabor Maté is a revered physician who specializes in neurology, psychiatry and psychology – and himself has ADD. With wisdom gained through years of medical practice and research, Scattered Minds is a must-read for parents – and for anyone interested how experiences in infancy shape the biology and psychology of the human brain. Scattered Minds: - Demonstrates that ADD is not an inherited illness, but a reversible impairment and developmental delay - Explains that in ADD, circuits in the brain whose job is emotional self-regulation and attention control fail to develop in infancy – and why - Shows how ‘distractibility’ is the psychological product of life experience - Allows parents to understand what makes their ADD children tick, and adults with ADD to gain insights into their emotions and behaviours - Expresses optimism about neurological development even in adulthood - Presents a programme of how to promote this development in both children and adults
Healing ADHD and the Scattered Mind: Esoteric Remedies for Restless Attention in an Overstimulated World
Healing ADHD and the Scattered Mind is a practical field manual for restless attention in the age of modern overload. It reframes ADHD traits not as laziness, weakness, or moral failure, but as fast life-force without stable anchoring: plenty of movement, not enough ground. The goal is not to become slow. The goal is to become coherent: fast, but focused; sensitive, but not shredded. This volume offers a layered approach that can sit alongside diagnosis, medication, therapy, coaching, and accommodations without shame or purity tests. It combines clear nervous-system logic with clean esoteric tools that stay sober, grounded, and safe. There is no forced breathing, no breath holding, and no occult theatrics. Instead, you get simple practices that reliably calm the system and train return: soft, unforced breathing with a slightly longer exhale; a short mantra for gathering and settling; a smooth stone anchor for instant re-entry; and a sand-timer focus rite that teaches your mind to begin without a fight and stop on purpose. Inside you’ll find: a state-based map of attention through body, breath, and “spirit” (in plain language); food rhythm and warm-meal strategies that stabilize focus without extremes; gentle movement sequences that discharge restless energy before work; a 72-hour stabilization plan for flare-ups; a 30–90 day rebuild program for lasting traction; and a practical diagnostic tool called the Five Doors of Scattered Attention (Body, Breath, Environment, Meaning, Relationship) so you stop using the wrong fix for the wrong problem. You’ll also learn spirit-field hygiene for fast minds—boundaries without paranoia—plus sleep and dream protocols for “open tabs” nights, family-script repair for inherited shame, and clean symbol work that turns meaning into stabilizing technology. Every chapter ends with quick wins: a one-minute action, a ten-minute practice, one environment adjustment, and one simple metric that tracks progress without obsession. The message is blunt and kind: you are not broken. You are intense, and you need structure. This book gives you that structure, and teaches you the skill that changes everything—return—so your attention can finally serve what matters.
