Dr. William (Bill) Dodson
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is having to have somebody that really understands you, accepts you just as you are, so you can take off that mask, relax, be yourself.
What a luxury that is, that for a lifetime of being on guard.
And so the other things that help,
PTSD in particular, are some of the somatic therapies.
EMDR is particularly good.
So, again, it's not medication that helps that.
Now, medication has a profound benefit for the majority, not everyone, but the majority of people with ADHD.
So, to me, it's two ingredients which is bruised.
that people with ADHD have to deal with without an instruction book.
Yes.
I stumbled onto it.
And there's a second group of medications besides the stimulants.
In fact, they're called the non-stimulants.
They really don't have a name to most people.
The medical name is Alpha-2A Agnes.
Again, a real tongue twister.
AHD seems to attract that.
But in the United States and in the United Kingdom, these medications are approved by our
government regulatory agencies for the treatment of ADHD.
So, I mean, they're well-known.