Gabor Maté

And apply the principles of understanding the child, giving the right conditions.

And then medications becomes maybe yes, maybe no.

Exactly, yeah.

Or stressed in the family.

For example, if a family comes to me with, here's my kid with ADHD, fix them.

I'm going to say to the parents, how is your relationship?

Because if the parent's relationship is stressed, the child is stressed.

And the more stressed the child is, the child's condition is like the canary in the mine.

that allows us to know that there's a problem with the whole family here.

So let's look after the whole family system here.

Not with blaming anybody, but let's just look at the whole family system.

When the parents calm down, when the home environment eases, miraculously, the child is more present and has less need to be as intense.

Especially with sensitive kids.

And these kids are genetically sensitive.

Well, the sensitivity comes from the Latin word, sincere to feel.

The sensitive person feels more.

So that the same external stimulus will have greater reaction in a sensitive person.

That's largely genetic, yeah.

But that's all that's genetic.

Not the ADHD itself.