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Language ‏ : ‎ English
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A celebrated speaker and bestselling author, DR. GABOR MATÉ is highly sought after for his expertise on a range of topics, such as addiction, stress, and childhood development. Dr. Maté has written several bestselling books, including the award-winning In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction; When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress; and Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder. He is also the co-author of Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers. His works have been published internationally in more than thirty languages.

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M. Barclay

Before you medicate your kids, READ THIS BOOK.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 23, 2023

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Gabor Mate himself has severe ADD. He explains the true source of the ADD and ADHD behaviors and how best to manage them either as an adult or a parent. Powerful content! PS- No judgement for parents that have no alternative but to seek pharma support for ADD. The struggle is real.

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Gisele Njoh Njoh

VERY INFORMATIVE,,WISH I HAD THIS BOOK YEARS AGO,

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 28, 2023

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MY DAUGHTER WHO HAS ADD IS 28 YEARS OLD,,WE ARE READING THIS BOOK TOGETHER, EACH DAY WE TAKE TURNS READING A PAGE,SHE READS ONE I READ ONE,,AND SHE IS TAKING NOTES.MUCH INFORMATION GIVEN,,SHE CAN SEE THAT THIS BOOK IS EXPLAINING WHAT SHE KNOWS ABOUT HERSELF TO BE TRUE,,MUCH HOPE GIVEN.

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David Armstrong

Terrific

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 11, 2023

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An extraordinary and invaluable book for families w ADD and human beings in general

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Told me everything I never knew about my life

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 28, 2023

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Cannot recommend this book enough.

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Derek E Clark

The best book on AD(H)D I have read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 4, 2022

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Beautifully written, ahead of its time, and aligned with the latest research on trauma, and attachment. It helps provide a lens to destigmatize this misunderstood condition, and a way to begin to release shame to begin to heal. As a licensed clinical social worker, this book rings true throughout from my professional experience treating clients with AD(H)D, as well as my own experience with the diagnosis. This book is not about blaming parenting, it is about understanding how secure attachment, interpersonal trauma, and stress impact people's ability to focus, find intrinsic motivation, and connect to others. This is a must read for anyone who is curious about understanding the human condition, but it is especially helpful if you have been diagnosed with AD(H)D, or know someone who struggles with the ability to focus, stay motivated, and/or connect to others. If you take the leap, it is vital you keep an open mind, and stay present with curious compassion. I hope others find love and healing through this book.

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Shanna

Wow. WOW!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 11, 2022

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What a wonderfully well written, informative book. If you, or someone you love suffers with ADD/ADHD, this book is a must have resource. Gabor Mate is extremely relatable and empathetic and has a way of phrasing things in a way that makes it so easy to understand and see in ourselves. This has completely changed the way I view ADD in general. I very highly recommend.

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Elle Caso

Attractive cover.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 18, 2022

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I've only read 10 pages in two weeks. I can't seem to focus. Originally I bought this to help my kids but I think I may benefit as well if I can ever sit down long enough to concentrate.

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IT IS TRUE. ADD or AD(H)D is caused by Trauma: Here's why

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 14, 2019

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ADD or AD(H)D is caused by Trauma. What both Maté and Bessel Van der Kolk ( author of The Body Keeps the Score) have found is 100% true.
it doesn't matter that conventional psychology hasn't yet found a 'cause'.
The DSM defines mental illnesses by identifying common behaviors that are found grouped together and calling them a disorder. This is like Columbus landing in the Caribbean, seeing a group of people who seemed to him to be "Indians" and so concluding that the land he had reached, was in fact, the West Indies, and so the people he was looking at were in fact, Indians.
Without a concept of the bigger picture, logical assumptions only become circular. Without a clear answer, the circle functions as the answer.

The DSM does not mention definition, a cause or a cure. If you're ever left with asking yourself, "Yes, but what is it really? Where does it come from, what does it do to my brain and how can i reverse it?
This book will give you all of your answers. Trauma distorts the brain in many, different ways. it is the cause of many mental "disorders.'
instead of this modern pathology, that doles out pharma drugs but no answer,
Maté can answer exactly HOW you got ADD, exactly HOW it has changed your brain, and exactly HOW you can work on your behaviors to slowly reverse the changes in your brain.
ADD, luckily, it is easier to recognize, isolate from your psyche, and work to reverse old patterns.
After unraveling your individual history and clearing away the fog, you can see your ADD self vs. your healthy self. You can then recognize when you find yourself tuning out, and tune back in. When you find yourself forgetting about time, float back to the present.
Reading this book will make all the difference.

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PeeJay

This is a book every parent of young children should read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 22, 2023

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This is book is a must read for any parent truly interested in bringing up their children so that they are emotionally healthy and naturally confident. Reading this helped me to understand my own unhelpful behaviours and I so wish this book had been published when I was parenting my children when they were so young. The late poet, Philip Larkin, once said, "Our parents f*** us up, they do", this book explains why indirectly.

Written with such eloquence and carefully explained throughout it is a fascinating and highly educational read.

A friend explained he has ADD, and with what I know about him, this book completely explains why. And his description of himself made me realise that perhaps I have it too. And I now understand why, it makes such sense now.

That the author has such deep knowledge and insights is remarkable, Gabor Mate writes with clarity and an underlying passion for the subject of ADD, which he has himself.

Highly enjoyable, I am so grateful that we have people like Gabor Mate in our world to help us.

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jornfin

Brilliant for ADD resulting from trauma - not for other cases

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on March 11, 2022

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Gabor Mate sees ADD (ADHD with or without the hyperactivity) as resulting from two factors: an inherited hypersensitivity and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), which give the hypersensitivity its (seemingly directionless) direction – away from the present, away from emotional pain.

In other words, a child is born with extreme sensitivity written into its genes. He or she then is exposed to, for example, rejecting parents, emotionally, physically and/or sexually abusive parents; or maybe just stressed out, hence explosive and out-of-touch parents; or possibly divorcing parents (where, as the author points out, the problem is not the divorce per se, but the years of tension and arguments preceding the eventual break-up); or abandonment due to sickness, war, natural catastrophe, etc. All these are ACEs.

As a consequence, the child’s brain will not develop normally. He/She learns to tune out, and becomes dependent on positive stimulation to an excessive degree. ADD symptoms emerge.

In choosing this perspective, the author puts ADD on a continuum with complex PTSD (developmental trauma). This explains such issues as weak self-esteem, attachment issues and addiction(s).

Mate often refers to himself or his patients, to provide examples. The problem here is that this approach can lead to cognitive distortions. Chapters about self-esteem and relationships (i.e. attachment) read exactly like similar chapters in literature about complex PTSD. This raises the question, whether a confirmation bias kicked in at some point during the thinking about / writing of this book. Does it make any sense to connect issues to ADD, when in fact they result from underlying trauma? Should this book have been called “attention-related issues resulting from ACEs and developmental trauma”?

Also, it’s been 20+ years since the books first publication, and new perspectives on ADHD have come up. Applying Mate’s approach to looking for examples in the home, I find two very different cases of ADHD. Both my wife and myself have been diagnosed with ADD. Having grown up in a broken home myself, I have also been diagnosed with complex PTSD, too. All the self-esteem and attachment issues are in place (or were, pre therapy). Yet my wife grew up in a loving family, unable to detect any ACEs in her childhood. She has a healthy self-esteem, no abandonment fears or attachment issues (and has, in fact, been able to keep our marriage together, whenever it was threatened by my trauma-induced patterns of thinking and behavior).

While not having any ACEs in her background, my wife does, however, have strong hyper-mobility (that’s not in any way related to hyperactivity, but means an overextendabilty of joints). Recent research has found ADHD to be common among people with hyper-mobility, and in these cases, both conditions have been related to a weakness of the nervous system.

ADD is also a highly common comorbidity of Tourette’s syndrome (estimates ranging up to above 50% of cases), yet Tourette’s has not been linked to ACEs.

Which leads to my main point: There are apparently a number of quite different roads leading to the same destination, ADD. This book is invaluable for anyone suffering from ADD, who also has memories (or knowledge) of ACEs (as described above) during their early childhood. This, as I said, includes me. The book was a brilliant and enlightening read, even if, in parts, in seemed to repeat what I had read about complex PTSD elsewhere. My wife, on the other hand, did not find it helpful.

There is a danger in leading anyone with ADD to believe they must have suffered during their early years. Research from the two decades after the publication of this book would indicate that a person can wind up with ADD without encountering ACEs in their earliest years. And if they don’t, much of the supposed ADD traits described in this book will not apply.

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Bettie

ADS als mögliche Kehrseite von Hochsensibilität

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on June 19, 2019

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Von allen Ratgebern zu ADS, die ich bisher gelesen habe (die Anzahl bewegt sich im zweistelligen Bereich), ist dieser hier für mich der aufschlussreichste.

Grob verkürzt:
Vielen Menschen ist bewusst, dass sie hochsensibel sind. Hochsensibilität ist ein anderes Wort für Reizfilterschwäche. Reizfilterschwäche ist wiederum Bestandteil von ADS.
Bis zur Erkenntnis, dass man selbst ADS haben könnte, ist es ein steiniger, schmerzhafter Weg, denn
ADS/ ADHS ist für viele Menschen, insbesondere für Eltern, inzwischen ein Reizwort. Man hat sofort die unangenehmsten Assoziationen. Dabei betreffen ADS/ ADHS-Symptome einen beachtlichen Teil der Menschheit.

Wer hochsensibel ist und eine Kindheit hatte, die seiner hochsensiblen Persönlichkeit nicht angemessen war, hat ein gewisses Risiko, beeinträchtigende ADS-Symptome zu entwickeln.
Unter optimalen Bedingungen aufgewachsen, bleibt man zwar sein Leben lang hochsensibel bzw. ungebremst reizoffen, ist aber in der Lage, die entsprechenden Auswirkungen bis zu einem gewissen Grad zu kompensieren.
Jeder hat seine eigene Symptomatik, und man kann durchaus auch Hochschulabsolvent oder gar Professor und trotzdem betroffen sein. Wie Gabor Mate selbst.

Gerade dass Gabor Mate viel über sich selbst und seine Familie schreibt, finde ich wertvoll. ADS freundet sich mit ADS an, heiratet ADS und zeugt ADS. Deswegen kommt man auch nicht so leicht auf die Idee, dass man ev. anders tickt als der größere Teil der Menschheit - schließlich sind die Liebsten um einen herum einem selbst so ähnlich.

Im Gegensatz zu anderen Büchern dieser Art, fühle ich mich nach Lektüre dieses Werks aufgefangen und nicht am Boden zerstört. Ich finde das Buch extrem hilfreich und tröstlich. Ein großes Dankeschön an Gabor Mate! Wie schade, dass es keine deutsche Übersetzung zu geben scheint - dieses Buch könnte so vielen Menschen helfen.

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Rinnen

so important to become aware

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 21, 2023

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This book is excellent. It makes a lot of sense. Understanding ADD is the first step towards healing, and Gabor Mate explains it very well. The best book I have read so far about adult ADD. He also offers solutions to overcoming it. The next step in our society will be to provide affordable support to put these solutions in place.

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Kel Moronto

Oozing with compassion yet lacking hard data and therefore unproven pracitcal usefulness.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 6, 2021

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Author is a very kind compassionate person and we can all learn that from him. Not sure about ADHD help though.

What he describes as causes and consequences of ADD are only weak correlations that are woven into convenient and satisfying to read narrative. It appears more of the case study of "Narrative Fallacy" cognitive bias than science.

Distractibility runs in my family and some of us were officially diagnosed. As a quite distractible person myself - someone who was unable to pay attention to college lectures, who needs to watch YouTube on high speed to prevent my mind from drifting away and who never finishes the book end to end I can say that authors description of ADD and both causes and implication is only 60% accurate. I would say it this number is so low that may as well be a coincidence.

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