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I'm writing this review while I'm only 40% done with this book. As an ADHD sufferer, it has understandably been a difficult read. What I've read so far has been profoundly revelatory. I have seen my life exposed and just laid out by Dr. Maté. There hI'm writing this review while I'm only 40% done with this book. As an ADHD sufferer, it has understandably been a difficult read. What I've read so far has been profoundly revelatory. I have seen my life exposed and just laid out by Dr. Maté. There have been times I've found myself in tears as I read descriptions about myself and my life in great detail, written by someone who has never met or even heard of me.
In the past few chapters I have been able to grasp the depth of ADHD, what can be the many causal factors around it, and how those factors often cannot have been foreseen at the time. I can see how some who read this book might tend to blame themselves or others for theirs or their children's ADHD, but it's clear that we are a product of the sum total of our experiences and not just one or two of them.
At 59-years-old and nearing retirement age, I look back at the path of destruction ADHD has left in my life... the lack of retirement planning... the lack or any planning at all. The years of anxiety and depression and the long episodes of reminiscence and rumination slowed and even stopped my ability to move forward in life and in work. It's a wonder I made it through college (I crammed four years of college into seven) and it's a wonder I am able to find myself a successful father, grandfather, and software engineer.
I am excited about the prospect of finding healing and reading the chapters to come. This book speaks to me clearly and directly and it's so refreshing!...more
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