Product Details

• Actors: Ted Kay
• Directors: Ted Kay
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• VHS Release Date: September 1, 1999
• Run Time: 29 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 188854029X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #333,708 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Yes! This is me and my life!, September 12, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: "OUTSIDE IN"-A Look At Adults With Attention Deficit Disorder [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The video is outstanding, and it leaves me wanting for it to be much longer. Watching it is an experience of self-realization. Yes, that's me. Yes, that's me, too. Yes...

Yes, my wife "doesn't understand me" and charges me with being passive-aggressive, as once mentioned in the video. Yes, I've made my family deeply angry and hurt them, as the son did in the video. Yes, I have always felt my life is a fraud and I am faking everything, as the principal describes hers. Yes, procrastination and the inability to finish things has crippled my life, as mentioned. Yes, I am overwhelmed by paperwork. Yes, I spend inordinate efforts at self-organization; and to little avail. Yes, virtually everything in life is experienced as unmanageable, as described. Yes, the existential actuality of my life is totally different from how other people perceive me. This video hits it all. I only wish it were longer.

The only part I did not identify with was the supposedly hard-driving, successful entrepreneur who tries to say that ADD is a wonderful gift and the basis for his success. I think he is doing a self-promoting con job on us. He is just marketing himself! He'd not be self-identified as ADD if he thought having ADD was so great. Buddy, as Will says, "thou dost protest too much."

This is a video that has been a self-revelation to me. It is also one I can pass to a few people who care about me, to help them understand what my life is like from the inside.

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Booklist, May 15, 2000 Media Review, October 4, 2000

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James Scholtz (glencoe, illinois United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: "OUTSIDE IN"-A Look At Adults With Attention Deficit Disorder [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Adult actor Mariette Hartley, who has been diagnosed with ADD/ ADHD (attention deficit disorder/attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), hosts this exceptionally well produced survey of ADD/ ADHD in adults. Such treatment options as prescription medicines, professional therapy, and lifestyle changes offer hope for those afflicted with this genetic neurobiologic disorder. Interviews with ADD/ADHD sufferers, family members, and medical experts detail symptoms, resultant behaviors, and effects. Hartley periodically summarizes key points and helps ease subject transitions. With superb editing, pacing, and topic coverage, this informative program is highly recommended.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Helpul Video, May 29, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: "OUTSIDE IN"-A Look At Adults With Attention Deficit Disorder [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This video is a little short, but definitely worth your time and money. I have two children who have been diagnosed with ADD and seeing this video gives my wife and I more hope than we have ever had. This is a misunderstood disorder and the more information and the more mainstream we make this to the general public the better served everyone is. Good ahead and make the purchase it's only 30 bucks and you and your family can benefit from this a lot.