Newer approaches using NeuroCare Pro and the CARE approach (Comprehensive Adaptive Renormalization of EEG) do not have these side effects becaue they do not push the person into a particular state. Rather they promote stability that allows desirable states to be accessed and maintained.
see www.TheBrainHaven.com
If you read no further, read this: Do the Neurofeedback training, you will not be disappointed. For information see:
www.TheBrainHaven.com, To find a trainer see: www.eegdirectory.com Try to find a trainer using NeuroCare Pro but if you can't, then find someone you like.
My son had this training. My son, 14, is on no medication and is a B student. Likes school. He does his homework without being asked and finishes it in a normal amount of time. (no more 3 hour homework sessions for 20 minutes worth of homework). He remembers his assignments and is able to get them from school to home and back again. He pays attention in class. He was completely unable to do any of this before Neurofeedback training, even while on any number of different medications. He used to constantly fidget and was always bothered by something in his environment. No more.
First, lets be clear about what a diagnosis of ADD or ADHD means. It means that a person has a set of symptoms that cannot be reliably attributed to some other disorder. Period. It is a non-disease. That is why there are so many different drugs out there that a doctor will be willing to try for ADD or ADHD (stimulants, tranquilizers, anti-psychotics, anti-depressants, you name it) because frankly, every person is different. I'm not anti-drug, but the side effects can be devastating as you found out.
It does not suprise me that your child developed tourettes type symptoms from taking a drug for ADHD. This is why: ADD and ADHD are signs that what is really a perfectly good brain, is not operating very efficiently. The brain is unstable, like a car that needs a tune-up. The brain gets "stuck" in non-efficient operating modes. Tourettes symptoms, too, are due to a brain that has trouble with resilency and flexibility and where the communication within the brain is mis-timed.
What does resilency mean? It means that someone can move into a state and stay there without getting pushed into some other undesirable state. That means I can focus without getting distracted, or I can relax without getting an anxiety attack, or I can go to sleep and stay asleep. That I can become upset without a migraine. Flexibility means being able to move between states easily. I can go from playing at recess (for those schools that still have recess) to concentrating on a lesson. I can go from playing a video game to eating dinner without falling into a black pit of anger or acting like a zombie. I can go from wakefulness to sleep or sleeping to wakefulness. I can easily move from being upset to realizing that whatever upset me is really not a big deal. I can be irritated by a noise (a smell, a thought, a light, a tag in my underwear, the seam on my socks) and forget about it immediately (oh God wouldn't that be Great?)
So what does all this have to do with Neurofeedback training? Neurofeedback training teaches the brain to be more resilient and more flexible. As the brain becomes more resilient and flexible, symptoms of instability disappear. The person is able to focus, anxiety disappears, irritability and anger disappear, suddenly the person is able to organize their lives, sleep is normal and restful, little cahnges or irritations stop being a big deal. I am not kidding. It is almost like a miracle.
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Newer approaches using NeuroCare Pro and the CARE approach (Comprehensive Adaptive Renormalization of EEG) do not have these side effects becaue they do not push the person into a particular state. Rather they promote stability that allows desirable states to be accessed and maintained. see www.TheBrainHaven.com
Neurofeedback training is no more like an experiment on a brain than exercise is like experimenting on our muscles
If you read no further, read this: Do the Neurofeedback training, you will not be disappointed. For information see: www.TheBrainHaven.com, To find a trainer see: www.eegdirectory.com Try to find a trainer using NeuroCare Pro but if you can't, then find someone you like. My son had this training. My son, 14, is on no medication and is a B student. Likes school. He does his homework without being asked and finishes it in a normal amount of time. (no more 3 hour homework sessions for 20 minutes worth of homework). He remembers his assignments and is able to get them from school to home and back again. He pays attention in class. He was completely unable to do any of this before Neurofeedback training, even while on any number of different medications. He used to constantly fidget and was always bothered by something in his environment. No more. First, lets be clear about what a diagnosis of ADD or ADHD means. It means that a person has a set of symptoms that cannot be reliably attributed to some other disorder. Period. It is a non-disease. That is why there are so many different drugs out there that a doctor will be willing to try for ADD or ADHD (stimulants, tranquilizers, anti-psychotics, anti-depressants, you name it) because frankly, every person is different. I'm not anti-drug, but the side effects can be devastating as you found out. It does not suprise me that your child developed tourettes type symptoms from taking a drug for ADHD. This is why: ADD and ADHD are signs that what is really a perfectly good brain, is not operating very efficiently. The brain is unstable, like a car that needs a tune-up. The brain gets "stuck" in non-efficient operating modes. Tourettes symptoms, too, are due to a brain that has trouble with resilency and flexibility and where the communication within the brain is mis-timed. What does resilency mean? It means that someone can move into a state and stay there without getting pushed into some other undesirable state. That means I can focus without getting distracted, or I can relax without getting an anxiety attack, or I can go to sleep and stay asleep. That I can become upset without a migraine. Flexibility means being able to move between states easily. I can go from playing at recess (for those schools that still have recess) to concentrating on a lesson. I can go from playing a video game to eating dinner without falling into a black pit of anger or acting like a zombie. I can go from wakefulness to sleep or sleeping to wakefulness. I can easily move from being upset to realizing that whatever upset me is really not a big deal. I can be irritated by a noise (a smell, a thought, a light, a tag in my underwear, the seam on my socks) and forget about it immediately (oh God wouldn't that be Great?) So what does all this have to do with Neurofeedback training? Neurofeedback training teaches the brain to be more resilient and more flexible. As the brain becomes more resilient and flexible, symptoms of instability disappear. The person is able to focus, anxiety disappears, irritability and anger disappear, suddenly the person is able to organize their lives, sleep is normal and restful, little cahnges or irritations stop being a big deal. I am not kidding. It is almost like a miracle.