Where did Attention Deficit Disorder originate?

Answer 1

ADHD was first described by Dr. Heinrich Hoffman in 1845. A physician who wrote books on medicine and psychiatry, Dr. Hoffman was also a poet who became interested in writing for children when he couldn't find suitable materials to read to his 3-year-old son. The result was a book of poems, complete with illustrations, about children and their characteristics. "The Story of Fidgety Philip" was an accurate description of a little boy who had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Yet it was not until 1902 that Sir George F. Still published a series of lectures to the Royal College of Physicians in England in which he described a group of impulsive children with significant behavioral problems, caused by a genetic dysfunction and not by poor child rearing-children who today would be easily recognized as having ADHD.1 Since then, several thousand scientific papers on the disorder have been published, providing information on its nature, course, causes, impairments, and treatments. The previous history was not easy to find albeit found in the National Library of Medicine. However, this history is not detailed regarding what I believe to be the truth about ADD (AD/HD is the hyperactivity included but not the same). Having suffered from it myself when young, but never diagnosed, my problem happened not from birth but later after my first two years in grade school. I lost interest in academics and sports became my métier then. I did not develop a love for academics until I was 21, some fourteen years after realizing I had ADD. But my mind was racing not my physical body. Hence, I started doing transcendental meditation at 18 that helped some but increased one's natural nervousness neurosis. Not until I found Paul Twitchell (The Eckankar founder) did my ADD problem completely become controlled. I say controlled because ADD only is a problem if the attention dynamic cannot be switched from unhinging the academic focus to a more illogical, "spaced-out" state. In other words, poets and musicians need the latter in order to dementalize. In other words, metallization is not the sole mode of existence and if it were we never get anything done nor have great art. Not to say that illogic contributes to fine art, but feeling and spirituality must have the dynamic state in one's balanced behaviour. Humour is mostly illogical and where would we be without it? Hence, ADD only is a problem if the person cannot control their attention. One needs a meditation-like practice for solving the problem. Only the teaching of AKATHA can provide the solution www.akatha.com. Introspection is good provided one closes the eyes, at least for thirty minutes per day, but without certain sound mantras, the solution is not perfected. Thus, ADD is a problem not only as of nutritional imbalances, but society becomes so noisy and aberrated along with academic lack of detail that the individual shifts his attention from it. Give some truth and detail and see how quickly the kid's attention increases. A friend, years ago, had a child that supposedly had ADD. I started speaking in Sanskrit (sounds like child's gibberish) to him and he raced towards me knowing that someone was doing something different and interesting. He was very small for his age and I suggested that once he got taller, the little bundle of energy would balance-out and sure enough he did. Thus, give the children something interesting like detailed truth and stop the nonsense Propaganda like CNN-like stuff, network nonsense TV, and advertisement. Coupled with proper introspection, the world could be an ideal place in which live.