Rising ADHD Rates In A Very Busy WorldThe increase in children with ADHD has been astonishing. Over the past two decades the number of children in a typical primary school class of 30 children who have ADHD and are taking medication for it has risen dramatically. You can bet that at least 10% are taking medication and possibly another 10% have been diagnosed with some level of it. At one point the amount of children being diagnosed with ADHD seemed like it was the majority of kids.
Truth be told, this probably is not that incorrect. Our society is filled with so many things to distract us that the chart which is used as a guideline to diagnose it fit almost everyone, adult and child alike. Our world is filled with so many things that we should have done yesterday that we cannot help but have some variation of ADHD.
Look at the differences in our morning routines since the dawn of the wireless internet and cellphones. Previously we would take a moment to stretch and get the kinks out of the back. Wander into the kitchen, half-awake. We would grab a drink, leisurely go out and pick up the morning paper on the front step which we would then casually read the events of yesterday over some light breakfast.
Now we wake up and immediately turn the sleep mode off our cellphone, check the email messages and realize that we forgot to do something important for work the day before. We start our day with worry and anxiousness. While you run out the front door after getting a sugar filled coffee or breakfast to keep your energy up, you would check on the news of the today and find out what happened on the planet while you were asleep, worried that you missed some big event that everyone will be talking about at work or school.
Out in the world, the cars move faster, people rush around doing all sorts of things that needed to be done yesterday, signs and billboards fill our vision of the things we should have, should do or should want.
We reach our school or office and sit in front of a powerful machine that demands we do 10 different things at once with it. We attempt to multi-task to keep up with the demands of the world only to fall further behind on the most important things because we are distracted with all sorts of crap.
Over the days, months and years are brainwaves must adapt as best as it can to this situation. We are literally training our brains to deal with this sort of mass input during every waking moment.
We wonder why when we sit down in the office or in a classroom and have a quiet moment to focus on one task we have such a hard time doing it.
That is where neurofeedback comes in. Since we have spent so much time training our brain to work one way, we require a relatively quick and painless solution, one that is non-invasive, no negative side effects and can make us better. That is why neurofeedback for ADHD, autism and other disorders have become so effective.
Using neurofeedback to retrain our brain to be able to focus on single tasks, reduce the clutter in our brain and show us how to be calm in the face of all this outside influences. It is the modern way to meditate and we all know that meditation is beneficial.
