| You have no doubt heard the quote that says if you | | | | smells as bad as it ever did. Graphic? Perhaps, but in |
| give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. But if you | | | | my opinion, it's no less distasteful than treating only the |
| teach him to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. | | | | symptom, when in fact, a treatment for the cause is |
| Biofeedback for the brain, or neurofeedback, is the | | | | available. |
| equivalent of teaching a man to fish. Taking | | | | The real question is this. Given the choice between |
| prescription medicine for ADD/ADHD is akin to giving a | | | | having a significant improvement in your ADD/ADHD |
| man a fish; in order to keep from starving. He will | | | | with side effects and a pill that you'll have to take |
| survive but be left on medication for the rest of his life | | | | every day for the rest of your life, or having the cause |
| and sometimes even become addicted to the same | | | | of the ADD/ADHD taken care of and a brain that self |
| drugs that keep him balanced. | | | | regulates, living free of the symptoms that you had |
| The current drugs prescribed for ADD/ADHD can | | | | experienced before, and not having to take any |
| work seeming miracles for those who have struggled | | | | medication for the results you enjoy each day, which |
| with the issues that typically come with these | | | | would you prefer? |
| disorders. However, with those "miracles" come a | | | | If you opted for the latter, you can consider yourself in |
| myriad of side effects. More importantly, perhaps, is | | | | good company. Men, women and children around the |
| the fact that these medications can only relieve the | | | | world are leaving ADD/ADHD behind and doing so |
| symptoms for as long as you are taking them as | | | | without medications. How? Biofeedback for the brain, |
| prescribed. Stop taking them and you can almost | | | | or neurofeedback. |
| guarantee that your symptoms will return. | | | | I should mention something here. There may be |
| Key Point: The medications prescribed for ADD/ADHD | | | | situations that warrant biofeedback for the brain and |
| are not intended to correct the underlying problem or | | | | medication. Just know that the two can work in |
| cause of your symptoms. | | | | conjunction if need be. And sometimes, this will be the |
| This is where neurofeedback shines. Biofeedback for | | | | case, at least initially. |
| the brain, or neurofeedback, is a treatment that | | | | As a mother I know that many parents would prefer a |
| focuses on correcting the problem responsible for the | | | | non-drug therapy for their child's condition. I am also a |
| symptoms that many find so aggravating and limiting. | | | | natural health advocate, who is always on the search |
| If you take a pile of cow manure, coat it with | | | | for non-pharmaceutical interventions to the diagnoses |
| polyurethane, and paint it your favorite color, it will | | | | and conditions that my loved ones are facing. |
| definitely look - and most likely smell - much better. | | | | Neurofeedback may be an avenue to explore |
| However, the first time you poke it with your finger, | | | | alongside traditional stimulant medication to treat ADHD |
| you find, that, underneath, it's still cow manure, and it | | | | and ADD. |