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How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It
Maté, who has ADHD himself, argues it is less a genetic disorder than a response to early stress, and that it can be healed rather than only managed.
Writing partly from his own experience of attention deficit disorder, Maté challenges the view of ADD as a purely inherited, hardwired condition. He connects it instead to the emotional environment of early childhood and the stresses that shape a developing brain. Rather than leaning only on medication, he offers a developmental path toward healing, one built on connection, self-understanding, and patience with a mind that works differently.
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