The increased frequency of these problems in our culture demands that we look beyond what pharmaceutical science has to offer. The use of more holistic therapies is not even mentioned in the article. In conventional medicine, diet, trauma, somatic imbalance, environmental and stress variables are not considered as co-causes. It saddens me that we’re not looking at—let alone treating—the causes of these conditions.

But some professionals do get it. In another article in the New York Times, Dr. Ronald Pies, a professor of psychiatry at Tufts and SUNY Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, comments on the depression diagnosis creating “a bogus epidemic of increasing depression.”

In my practice, I have seen many patients “cure” themselves of depression and ADHD using non-traditional therapies and lifestyle changes. It can be much like getting in shape: at first there is a lot of work and little benefit, but after awhile, the benefits are self-sustaining. The first step is to decide what model of depression you will use to define your condition, from there you can determine your next step.

As a former suffer of Asperger’s Syndrome, dyslexia and ADHD, my healing demonstrates you can go beyond medicating the symptoms to healing the condition(s). Many people will tell you these conditions are not curable, and they’re not—if you use pharmaceutical treatment. But sing bodywork, holistic nutrition, homeopathy, energy work such as acupuncture, and release of emotional trauma and stress, it is certainly possible to be “cured” of depression, bipolar disorder or ADHD.

Are Drugs the answer for Depression and ADHD? is a post from: dyslexic 2

Speaking what is missing

One reason dyslexia works for me is it gives me a different prospective on people. During elementary school, I learned quickly that I couldn’t do most of the things other kids did, so I had to find a way to cheat the system. I had to discover a way to think out of the box. I first learned to not just listen to what people were saying, but also to what they weren’t saying.

I began to picture what was not being said, what was being left out. Initially that was a problem – I became the child who said the emperor had no clothes. Eventually I learned to keep my mouth shut. As an adult, I unlearned keeping my mouth shut. Now I speak directly to the “missings.” One thing about being an adult, you get to say what you think. Not that others will listen, but at least you get to speak.

Today I train people to develop the skill of seeing and hearing what is missing, than speaking what is not said. As you know, many don’t like what is being avoided acknowledged. Yet, once out in the open the relationship, work and life can move on. After the stress of speaking the hidden, the stress of the relationship becomes less. People begin to relax. Life becomes more fun and productive when we don’t waste energy hiding our thoughts.

What is yours?

Give us one or more of you gifts that dyslexia gives you.

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I created this blog to inspire us dyslexics or aspiring dyslexics to share our gifts.

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