BNT: The Short Story of How I Got Involved
Fate. I was definitely meant to cross paths with Dr. Phyllis Books and contribute to getting the message of her work out there.
Plain + Simple: If there's anything out there that doesn't use drugs for medicating kids + adults with issues like ADHD + Dyslexia, let's explore + share those pathways.
Plain + Simple: If there's anything out there that doesn't use drugs for medicating kids + adults with issues like ADHD + Dyslexia, let's explore + share those pathways.
BNT: The Longer Story of WHY I Got Involved
My sister was diagnozed with ADHD when she was around 7 and given Aderol. Most people have heard of Ritalin, and it should make you want to throw up knowing they've given that to kids and still do sometimes. Likewise, Aderol was a mess.
It's a depressant. Some kids are lucky and have psychiatrists and doctors who will also give them anti-depressants. My sister wasn't that "lucky".
She couldn't gain weight. 90 pounds from age 10 to 24. And not even that much change since.
She got her period when she was 15 and it has always been irregular.
I genuinely don't know if she can have kids.
She went off Aderol for 2 months when she was 18 and grew 2 inches!
But the depression was the worst. She had been struggling with it since elementary school and hadn't told anyone. I don't know how she survived all of this. She contemplated suicide regularly. Under the influence of Aderol, she was constantly in a fog, and lost in deep depression.
But grades were important. She thought if she went without the drug, she would fail high school and then college. And adults at the time who didn't understand her struggle also echoed those sentiments.
Then I met Will. 23 year old who had been through something similar. He had been given anti-depressants, but otherwise all of the "side effects" of Aderol were the same. He was most troubled by his stunted growth and trying to function under the fog.
Then there's my dad who has Dyslexia. People hear that word and vaguely understand what it means, but don't fully appreciate it until you've met someone who has it and listened to their story.
My dad is a very intelligent computer engineer. At the age of 16 he would ask me to look over "very important" emails. I also needed to proof read his resume. It's degrading for someone that smart to not be able to trust their own brain to spell out basic words for them.
I've also met adults that found ways around Not Reading for decades. Books on tape. Coping Mechanisms. Grasping for basic concepts rather than looking at details. Asking people to read something, "Oh I forgot my glasses", or "I have a headache, can you just read this for me..."
Then I met Dr. Books. To say she's inspiring is a bit of an understatement. 30+ years as a woman in a field predominantly held by men as an entrepreneur at a time when they were seldom, let alone women. At 72 years old, she's as energetic and focused as me at 31 -if not more. A very intelligent, spiritually led woman who developed a method and a program to address these sort of mental disorders by realigning neural pathways in the brain to the base of the spine. She's helped hundreds of people -particularly kids. It's incredible.
It's a depressant. Some kids are lucky and have psychiatrists and doctors who will also give them anti-depressants. My sister wasn't that "lucky".
She couldn't gain weight. 90 pounds from age 10 to 24. And not even that much change since.
She got her period when she was 15 and it has always been irregular.
I genuinely don't know if she can have kids.
She went off Aderol for 2 months when she was 18 and grew 2 inches!
But the depression was the worst. She had been struggling with it since elementary school and hadn't told anyone. I don't know how she survived all of this. She contemplated suicide regularly. Under the influence of Aderol, she was constantly in a fog, and lost in deep depression.
But grades were important. She thought if she went without the drug, she would fail high school and then college. And adults at the time who didn't understand her struggle also echoed those sentiments.
Then I met Will. 23 year old who had been through something similar. He had been given anti-depressants, but otherwise all of the "side effects" of Aderol were the same. He was most troubled by his stunted growth and trying to function under the fog.
Then there's my dad who has Dyslexia. People hear that word and vaguely understand what it means, but don't fully appreciate it until you've met someone who has it and listened to their story.
My dad is a very intelligent computer engineer. At the age of 16 he would ask me to look over "very important" emails. I also needed to proof read his resume. It's degrading for someone that smart to not be able to trust their own brain to spell out basic words for them.
I've also met adults that found ways around Not Reading for decades. Books on tape. Coping Mechanisms. Grasping for basic concepts rather than looking at details. Asking people to read something, "Oh I forgot my glasses", or "I have a headache, can you just read this for me..."
Then I met Dr. Books. To say she's inspiring is a bit of an understatement. 30+ years as a woman in a field predominantly held by men as an entrepreneur at a time when they were seldom, let alone women. At 72 years old, she's as energetic and focused as me at 31 -if not more. A very intelligent, spiritually led woman who developed a method and a program to address these sort of mental disorders by realigning neural pathways in the brain to the base of the spine. She's helped hundreds of people -particularly kids. It's incredible.