An update on Willy and I

[Guest guest]

Dear group:

 

This material has been long delayed, mainly due to the fact that a

party or parties) unknown to me repetitively hacked my computer all

summer long, an oddity that began soon after my son Willy's

ADHD/bipolar recovery story was widely posted on the Internet in June

2006. In being hacked, I lost all of the data on my hard drive, and I

lost the motherboard of the computer I was using as well. Who hacked

me? Was this just a random event? Or was it a person paid for by

pharmaceutical interests in an attempt to slow me down or discredit

me, as Willy and I represent such a huge threat to their treatment of

ADHD and bipolar disorder? I'll never know who proactively acted to

" shut my writing efforts down " by hacking me so repetitively all

summer long and in such a damaging way. I sure hope that this does

not happen again.

 

Unfortunately, my new computer (an old one that was " fixed up " for me)

shows signs of being targeted as well. I only had my cable connection

installed at 5 PM on November 29th. In the first five days of being

online, my Zone Alarm Firewall says that I have had 2108 intrusion

attempts, 11 of which were high rated. It is now Thursday, December

7th, at 10 PM, only eight days and five hours after I got online with

what was essentially " a new computer " . Zone Alarm now says that I

have had 3071 intrusions blocked, and 16 of them were high rated.

Five days after being online (on Monday), Ad Aware found 47 critical

objects, one of which was a browser hijack attempt. BufferZone

Security (another free security program that I downloaded as soon as I

got online) counted 10,564 " unauthorized changes prevented " in the

first five days of my being online. All of these numbers are

unusually high, for a computer that has only been online for such a

short time and is only being used an average of six to eight hours a

day. I am apparently being targeted by someone. I have had a number

of people that are far more computer knowledgeable than I confirm this.

 

I knew over six years ago that what I had discovered what going to

cost the drug companies billions of dollars someday. With Willy, I

now know that number is tens of billions… and that this day is coming

soon. In my opinion, " our twin recoveries " (father and son)

represent the end of the medical model for bipolar disorder. And what

I have known for years would obsolete every antidepressant on earth…

if I ever got some real help in regard to working out the details. No

wonder the drug companies are scared of me.

 

On the positive side, there is much progress to report since I first

wrote Willy's amazing recovery story in June. The following is

Willy's updated recovery story, one that I sincerely hope that you

will enjoy.

 

Lastly, the specifics of Willy's supplement regime and any other

natural measures that he used will be posted to the Internet by the

end of December 2006.

 

Sincerely,

 

Allen Darman

 

From ADHD To The Honor Roll And More… Willy's Story as of December 2006.

 

Every time I see my son, I realize that I am witnessing a miracle.

Willy's recovery from ADHD and childhood bipolar disorder in the past

twenty-eight months (beginning in August 2004) has been no less than

miraculous. Willy has gone from being severely learning impaired to

making the Honor Roll twice. He also went from being nearly the

weakest child in his class to the second strongest. Willy won four

academic awards last June at the completion of ninth grade, to include

the Principal's Award, which is the most prestigious award given.

(Only four children out of over 200 received this award, from a school

system that is considered one of the better ones in the US.)

 

My son has certainly come a long way from being a sickly child, his

ADHD diagnosis, taking Ritalin for four and a half years, and failing

the third grade.

 

Although Willy was diagnosed with ADHD at six years old, Willy was

actually third generation bipolar (my mother, myself, and then

himself). At six years old Willy said a few times " I think about

suicide a lot " . And as young as six Willy could talk non-stop for

over an hour with four people in a car, the rest of us hardly able to

get in a single word edgewise. Willy's ADHD diagnosis was a

misdiagnosis; he exhibited classic bipolar symptoms, just as my mother

and I did for decades. (I became well naturally from bipolar disorder

in the late 1990's.)

 

However, none of this matters now! Not only did Willy overcome ADHD,

he overcame bipolar disorder in himself as well. He now exhibits no

ADHD or bipolar symptoms whatsoever, after having done so for about

seven years prior to his using natural therapies. No more mood swings!

Willy is one happy, stable, and content child. A teacher asked him

last year " why are you so happy all the time? "

 

The beauty of my son Willy's recovery story is that " he essentially

cured himself " . I may have taught Willy what he needed to know, but

as a non-custodial parent, I did not have the liberty to apply

alternative medicine to my son, nor bring him to an alternative doctor

for the same. I had to teach Willy beginning at age thirteen what he

had to do to become well. However, he had to apply this knowledge to

himself, with no one in attendance to help him while he did so.

 

In regard to Willy's physical health, there have been many remarkable

changes in the past two years. During his childhood he exhibited both

" easy bruising " and chronic spontaneous nosebleeds, as well as had

very soft teeth. He no longer bruises, nosebleeds are rare vs.

common, and his teeth are much healthier. Willy's ability to avoid

getting sick, his ability to tolerate cold temperatures, and his

ability to heal from an accidental cut he might get are all remarkably

better as well.

 

Willy was also a very small child throughout his childhood vs. others

his age. This is not the case today. He has grown about six inches

in height in the past twenty-eight months and has gained about 60 lbs.

as well. He has also gone from a sickly child that could barely bench

press 60 lbs. in August 2004 to being able to bench press 240 lbs. in

May 2006, 250 lbs. in June 2006, and 280 lbs. at the end of September

2006. Willy can also leg press " over " 400 lbs. today. (Willy told

me told me that 400 lbs. is the exercise machine's maximum. He also

told me that he can do this leg press four times, which means that the

maximum weight Willy can for this exercise would actually be something

" over " 400 lbs. Willy also told me that he exceeds (can do) the

maximum weight on other exercise equipment besides the leg press

machine at the gym he goes to as well. Yet he is only 5'6 " tall and

only weighs only 175 lbs. himself (a gain of about 24 lbs. of healthy

weight since June).

 

Willy is much stronger than most grown men, despite the fact he just

turned sixteen on September 18, 2006. Never in my life have I seen

such a weak sickly child gain the degree of health, physical strength,

and stamina that my son has, or come even close. And Willy did so in

such a short time (beginning in August 2004), with no parental pushing

of any sort, but rather by his own free choice and by using his own

self-discipline to do so.

 

I did question my son a few days ago on how much time he actually

spends lifting weights. Willy said he goes to the gym about 3 or 4

times a week, and stays for only about 45 minutes or so. Willy also

has a weight set at home, which he said he usually spends about 15

minutes a day on. Willy is certainly not a kid that spends all of his

time in the gym or at home lifting weights... that's for sure. Like a

typical child in America today, Willy spends the bulk of his free time

on video games, computer games, or watching TV. He is not working out

all the time, or being pushed to work out by either of his parents.

Willy just does what he wants to, as most teenagers do... but he also

gets his homework for school done on time.

 

A few months ago I questioned Willy on " what do you normally eat for

breakfast, and he said " a bagel and cream cheese " (to which I said

" Ouch! Can't you do better than that? Breakfast is supposed to be the

most important meal of the day " .) And he is eating a standard

(nutrient deficient) American diet (SAD) at home for the most part

(other than more fresh fruits and vegetables than most his age), as

well as he is eating standard (nutrient deficient) school lunches at

school.

 

Only recently (in October and November), after Willy had bench pressed

280 lbs., did I get him any " standard weight lifting supplements " such

as creatine and glutamine. Willy's amazing gain in strength, health,

and wellness has come from probiotics taken daily, some reduction in

allergic food exposure, some digestive enzyme use, baggies of

supplements that he takes every other day or so, a multivitamin and

some of the other baggie nutrient components on the days in between,

and his own self directed exercise program at home and at the gym.

Willy does skip taking baggies of supplements every day due to cost...

as he knows that I just can't afford to " supplement him and heal him

all the way, if money was no object " . (What a lesson the world is

losing here, as the result of a lack of a few dollars that I just

don't have.)

 

Willy is admittedly still somewhat reading impaired. However, this is

steadily improving, and it will hopefully no longer be an issue soon.

Despite being reading impaired, Willy made the Honor Roll twice (the

last two times he received his grades last June and this November),

and he got an 89 and a 91 on his two New York State Regents Exams last

year.

 

How did all of this happen?

 

It may have helped that I was Willy's father. In being his father, I

was able to visit Willy often enough on weekends to be able to teach

him what he needed to know in order to cure himself. As a

non-custodial parent I could not control his diet, monitor his

digestive or bowel health, or give him the supplements that he needed

to take. The only way we could succeed is that I had to teach Willy

to " become an effective doctor of himself " . (I estimate the total

time I have used to teach Willy was about 50 hours in aggregate in the

past two years… mostly given in snippets of conversations on the

weekend while I was driving somewhere, usually on a " woods or creek

adventure " , with my son. Much of the time I spent teaching Willy, I

was simply continually harping on hidden food allergy and other common

problematic gut issues, and teaching Willy how and why to cope with

them over and over again.)

 

I had another serious roadblock in my way in regard to helping my son

Willy to become well. Due to the fact that my ex-wife staunchly

believed in the medical model and I had no legal say in my children's

health care decisions, this meant that for Willy and I to begin to use

alternative therapies we had to sneak around my ex-wife to get away

with this, or I could be taken to court. This situation sure put a

restriction on how things are normally done supplement-wise. My son

insisted at the beginning that we only use one supplement period

(regime) a day. He was as scared as I was of being caught, as he knew

how adamant his mother was against my suggestions to use nutritional

and natural supplements. So we decided in late July of 2004 to do

something very unusual supplement-wise. This was to combine over

sixty capsules or tablets of a few dozen different supplements into a

small plastic bag (we call this a " baggie " ), and take them all at once

in order to minimize the risk of his being caught. In truth, Willy

" invented the baggie " , not I.

 

About five months after Willy and I began working together, Willy did

get caught. Thankfully, by the time this happened Willy had already

become so much better that my ex-wife wisely decided to let me

continue to work with my son without any further interference.

 

From almost day one Willy knew that the baggie of supplements that he

requested and that I put together for him in the summer of 2004 was

extremely helpful to him. He clearly felt better on the days he took

his baggie vs. those days he did not.

 

Almost half of the capsule count in Willy's baggies involved fourteen

grams or so of broad spectrum (over 20) free form amino acids, to

include one gram of tryptophan, one and a half grams of glutathione

precursors, and some taurine.

 

Willy's baggie also contained the key " brain braking " nutrient

combination of L-carnitine and phosphatidyl choline, in order to cover

the single neurotransmitter (acetylcholine) that amino acids don't

make. (I personally feel it would almost invariably be a big mistake

for a bipolar person to take the amount of broad based amino acids

that Willy and I do without taking carnitine and enough phosphatidyl

choline as well at the same time. I also feel that it would be a big

mistake for a bipolar person that is recovering naturally to ignore

the tremendous therapeutic power of broad based amino acids, or to

ignore the therapeutic power of certain individual amino acids as well.)

 

Willy's baggie had an " off-the-shelf " multivitamin in it, one that

contained many minerals as well. Additional capsules of vitamin B

complex, vitamin C, vitamin E, calcium, magnesium, and zinc were added

to boost the dosages of these essential nutrients, even though they

were all in the multivitamin. (I felt the dosages of some nutrients in

this multivitamin were inadequate for my son's needs.)

 

Willy's baggie also contained capsules of the " good oils " of fish,

flax, borage, evening primrose, cod liver, and coconut. In addition,

it contained digestive enzymes, super blue-green algae, chlorella,

spirulina, grape seed extract, quercitin, milk thistle, and later (as

I continued to improved the baggie ingredients over time) alpha lipoic

acid. (Willy's specific supplement regime will be widely posted to

the Internet in December 2006.)

 

Nutrients definitely seem to work in synergy with each other. As

Adelle Davis alluded to decades ago, " give the body the full range of

nutrient tools it may need to heal, and let the wisdom of the body

(God? Nature?) do the rest " .

 

Besides using baggies, Willy has been taking quality probiotics almost

daily from August 2004. Probiotics were, and still are, a critical

intervention for him.

 

I am absolutely awed by my son's mental and physical wellness, and how

relatively easy it was for him to effect such wellness on himself over

the past few years. Willy sure seems " to set the bar " (the standard)

for bipolar and/or general health recovery worldwide. And yet he

tells me in regard to his recovery " Dad, what I did was so easy " (both

of us are amazed at how easy it was).

 

Willy belongs on prime time TV... what a story he (or he and I) could

tell. Willy does not even have to say a word and he shows wellness...

his aura is one of health and happiness for sure.

 

Perhaps some day the world will appreciate what my brave son Willy did

in regard to taking as many supplements as he has in order to cure

himself of ADHD and bipolar disorder. Thank You Willy for trusting me

when I told you that the baggie of supplements that I concocted in the

summer of 2004 would be helpful to you. And Thank You Willy for

accepting my guidance throughout your remarkable recovery journey to

much better health.

 

Unfortunately, Willy and I now realize that there exists a very

substantial prejudice in most people at taking as many supplements as

we regularly do all at once. Willy and I both know that this

prejudice is in error. Taking many nutritional supplements at once is

not harmful (assuming they are adequately balanced).

 

This prejudice against taking many supplements all at once will

probably be overcome in a little time. The truth here is that drugs

affect people in small amounts (a tablet or two), while nutrition

needs much greater physical mass to have adequate therapeutic effect

(and thus sixty or more tablets or capsules may be needed to get " the

healing job done " , as is the case with both Willy and I).

 

For both Willy and I taking baggies is by far the most helpful

approach in regard to us " curing ourselves " and staying cured (getting

well and staying well). I cannot help but believe that some day it is

perhaps inevitable that millions of persons will be saying the very

same thing…. that " their baggies " of broad based nutritional

supplementation have helped them tremendously in regard to their

recovering their physical or mental health.

 

However, please remember that supplements cannot do it all, especially

if you continue to eat your allergic foods, you have too much candida,

etc. poisoning you, or you lack an adequate amount of digestive

enzymes in order to digest your food intake well. When dealing with

ADHD or bipolar disorder, even if you use an alternative doctor to

guide you, it is wise to learn all you can about the common

malabsorptive issues of (1) hidden food allergy, (2) intestinal

dysbiosis (candida, too many " bad bugs " , parasites, etc.), and (3) a

lack of digestive enzymes, as these are the three most common

malabsorptive issues that actually cause ADHD or bipolar disorder in

the first place. Other health issues " that you can learn to fix in

yourself better than any doctor can " such as leaky gut,

detoxification, acidosis, hypoglycemia, environmental allergens, liver

cleansing, kidney cleansing, possibly low stomach acidity, inadequate

hydration, etc. may all also be worth learning about as well. (Sherry

Roger's books, found on www.prestigepublishing.com, may be a good

start as far as this learning is concerned. But don't just read her,

many other alternative health authors have written great books as well.)

 

Don't fall victim to the drug companies, due to the fact you lack a

little bit of knowledge that you could learn by yourself. And don't

fall victim to medical doctors that do not understand the therapeutic

use of nutrients, hidden food allergies, intestinal dysbiosis, why and

how to use digestive enzymes, etc. These parties summarily either

promote or prescribe toxic medication for the sake of lining their

pockets and keeping their jobs. And don't fall victim to alternative

medical doctors that say you need a lot of expensive and marginally

useful laboratory tests (some tests may be wise, but many are not).

Educate yourself, like my teenage son Willy did. (At age fourteen,

after only a few dozen hours of my teaching him, Willy knew more about

how to " cure himself " of a lack of physical and mental health than any

medical doctor that had ever treated him.)

 

God forbid I ever have the luxury of living with my son. Willy has an

even higher level of wellness to show the world, as I teach him " hands

on " how to rather readily effect such on himself at home, with no

medical doctor either present or necessary. Willy continues to learn

more over time in regard to what he needs to in order to become " a

more effective doctor of himself " . There is more that I hope to teach

him if we live together some day.

 

Lastly, Willy has generated one of the most remarkable childhood

bipolar recovery stories in the entire world. (Even though Willy was

only formally diagnosed with ADHD, he was truly bipolar.) As a result

of my son Willy's amazing recovery, one that I essentially

orchestrated with " two hands tied behind my back " (I have not lived

with my son for ten years), I sure hope the world will begin to take a

look at my prior knowledge and my prior written work. As far back as

October 1997 I had made some crucial discoveries in regard to properly

understanding and treating manic depression (bipolar disorder). And

by April 2000, I had developed a revolutionary degree of insight in

regard to how to treat depression (this knowledge has become even

better over time). These discoveries may actually be important to the

survival of the very planet, as mood is such a crucial determinant to

human behavior. Even if they are not, these discoveries are certainly

very important to the survival of tens of thousands of persons that

" die by their own hand " every year (suicide). Yet these discoveries

are still at a standstill, due to the fact that I have yet to get any

of the help or the collaboration that I need. Hopefully, my son

Willy's story will result in my finding the resources that I need in

order to " finish the contribution that I wish to make to the world " .

 

Allen Darman

http://360./allen_dar

allen_dar

[Guest guest]

What a really fantastic story. It interested me more because I have a grandson

who has just, last week, been diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder. Jack

is 8. We've been trying to get help for him since he was 3 years old. For

the past year Jack has been taking Omega 3 chewables and has made some progress.

He has no problems at school, and has gone to the top in nearly all of his

subjects, except anything physical. He is clumsy, falls, hurts himself, doesnt

feel pain (even when he fell in some bushes and split both of his knees on glass

and needed stitching).

 

Jack is a lovely boy, and a pleasure to take anywhere, has very good manners,

then its as though something changes in him and he throws a tantrum where he

screams, swears, calls anyone near the most horrific names, including his Mum &

I, and as quickly as it starts he calms down and goes back to being lovely

again.

 

At home, he is the same. He can be quite happy doing something, and his

brother just needs to walk into the same room & he screams & accuses him of all

sorts of things. We've watched him, and they are nowhere near each other!

Again he calms down the same way as he started.

 

Its not knowing where or when he will start that is the awful part, and we

were told by the Consultant that he will only get worse !!

 

I admire what you have done for your son, and it cant have been easy. Thank

you for sharing this with us.

 

With regard to your pc. I too am on and have had the same problems. I

am an assistant manager of a site which passes on information regarding health

mistakes, cons*ira*cies, etc. and I can wait anything up to 10 mins to get

connected, if at all, on broadband. My web pages take forever to load, and

often just disappear with no warning.

Ive had up to 2,000 Spyware from my ISP in the same day. Speaks for itself.

Ive tried changing ISP and they wont let me. They give me my MAC CODE, then

when another supplier contacts them, they get told " this asset is not

recognised " and its knocked back.

Its obvious we arent meant to tell the truth about them. Im in UK.

 

Maggie

 

 

 

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.....

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Your description of Jack's behavior sounds a lot like Tourette's Syndrome.

Was that diagnosis also considered?? Just curious. I have two close friends

with family members with this condition.

 

Linda Michaels

Gambier, Ohio

[Guest guest]

My son has Tourette's and ADHD as well. He is on conventional medications but

would love to read information on how the two syndromes might be cured without

those meds. I read this update on Willy and I with great enthusiasm and look

forward to the posting in the end of December with the total information in it.

 

MeKaren

 

Linda Michaels <michaelsljc wrote:

Your description of Jack's behavior sounds a lot like Tourette's

Syndrome.

Was that diagnosis also considered?? Just curious. I have two close friends

with family members with this condition.

 

Linda Michaels

Gambier, Ohio

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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