Guest guest Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 Dear friends: For those persons and that received an earlier version of this material I wish to apologize in advance for the redundancy involved. This is a much improved document to one that I sent out to a few parties and this past week, and most of the Conclusion of this document is new (original material). Although it is no real excuse for this mistake of " posting before my best effort was ready " , I am stuck with " library only " computer and Internet access for the time being. I am simply doing the best that I can without having a home computer and a " home office " in which to work from. For those persons and that have not seen any of this material before, I welcome you to enjoy my son Willy's rather heartwarming ADHD and childhood bipolar recovery story. Sincerely, Allen Darman Willy's amazing ADHD & bipolar recovery continues! My son Willy Darman just gets better and better month after month. He may represent one of the most profound ADHD and childhood bipolar recovery stories in existence. The gist of my son Willy's rather amazing ADHD and bipolar recovery story is as follows: Willy was on Ritalin for about four and a half years for an ADHD diagnosis. He also exhibited classic bipolar disorder symptoms as young as six years old. (At six years old Willy expressed thoughts about suicide, and he would often talk non-stop at a very rapid pace for over an hour, despite four other people being with him in a car.) In addition to this, Willy was a small, physically weak, and rather sickly child throughout his entire childhood. When Willy was in seventh grade (2003-2004), he one of those very compromised children that seemingly would not ever catch up to his peers in either academic achievement or mental and physical health. Willy appeared to be one of those kids that " just did not have a chance " . Such is not the case today. Willy did not only catch up to his peers academically, his health and wellness for a child his age (16) certainly seems to exceed " the norm " . How did Willy's profound turnaround in health happen? For the past thirty months (beginning in August 2004) Willy has used nutritional supplements and other natural measures (and no medication whatsoever) to overcome his lack of wellness. Out of necessity, Willy self-administered these nutritional supplements and other natural measures to himself. (I am a non-custodial parent, and my ex-wife did not play an active role in Willy's natural healing. Although I may have taught Willy much of what he needed to do in order to become well, I was not there at home to help him.) Beginning at age thirteen, my son Willy, a learning impaired child, took full personal responsibility for his own health. And he learned what he had to, and did what he needed to, in order to " cure himself " . Last June (2006), at the completion of ninth grade, Willy won the Principal's Award (the most prestigious award given), as well as three other academic awards. Willy also made the Honor Roll last June for the first time in his academic career. He repeated making the Honor Roll in November. Although Willy just missed making the Honor Roll (by less than a point) this past January, he did get a 98 on the only mid term NYS Regents Exam that he took. And the best news to me is that my son is now reading books! at home with some of his free time (something he NEVER did as little as a few years ago.) The facts of Willy's physical recovery are even more profound than his academic progress. In a thirty month span of time Willy went from almost the weakest child in his grade (of about 200 kids) to almost the strongest child in the entire school (of about 600 kids) that he attends (New Hartford High School in New Hartford, NY). To explain this, in the summer of 2004 Willy could barely bench press 60 lbs. four times. Willy can now bench press almost 300 lbs. (295 lbs. is his latest maximum). Willy can also leg press over 400 lbs., and do " the maximum " weight on most of the machines at the health club he goes to as well. He recently showed me that he can do one hand pull-ups (three with one arm and one with the other). Amazingly, Willy's tremendous gain in physical strength came from him working out at home and in a health club perhaps an aggregate of only four or five hours a week! (Willy currently weighs 175 lbs. and is sixteen years and five months old.) The best part of Willy's recovery is that he no longer has any ADHD or bipolar symptoms whatsoever!, after a long history of very serious symptoms of both throughout his childhood (from age six onward). He overcame his lack of physical and mental wellness by gaining a little bit of knowledge (it amazes us both how little knowledge was needed), and by the use of nutritional supplements and other natural measures (such as some food allergy avoidance, regular probiotics use, and some digestive enzyme use). Conclusion I am very disappointed in a medical model that continues to prescribe " drugs and only drugs " for bipolar disorder and ADHD. The medical model apparently leaves it to those persons affected by such illnesses (or their parents or other loved ones) to find " common sense " answers such as that which my son Willy used to become so profoundly well. Thankfully, my son Willy has stumbled on to what may be found to be " the healing idea of the century " some day... that of " very broad based nutritional supplementation taken all at once " . This " common sense answer " (nutrients work in synergy with each other, of course!) has generated one of the most profound mental and physical health recoveries on the planet. This " common sense answer " , in one version or another, will inevitably generate many more profound health recoveries similar to that of my son. And this " common sense answer " does not just apply conceptually to bipolar disorder and ADHD. It also happens to apply conceptually to depression (it is destined to make all antidepressants obsolete), substance abuse (from alcohol to heroin), and many other physical (degenerative) and mental illnesses as well. Although it may take decades to occur, I cannot help but feel that millions of persons will inevitably be thankful to my son. The problem here of course is that modern medicine only makes money from the prescription of drugs. Out of fiscal self interest (involving many tens of billions of dollars) modern medicine has to summarily ignore my son Willy's amazing ADHD and bipolar recovery and all of the invaluable lessons that it may have taught us. The only hope for forward motion of my son Willy's breakthrough discovery of " very broad based nutritional supplementation taken all at once " may have to come from private parties that are outside the confines of drug oriented medicine altogether. Hoorah! for you Willy! Son, I am so proud of what you did. And I expect to be proud of what you will do in the future, as you continue to learn more, and then apply this knowledge, in regard to becoming " the best doctor of your own self " . Sincerely, Allen Darman [My son's original recovery story (one that I wrote last June), and two updates that I also wrote (one in early December and one in late January) are readily found on the Internet. Simply google Willy Darman to find them if you wish, or you can find them in my 360 blog (a totally non-commercial site) at http://360./allen_dar ] ______________________________\ ____ Don't get soaked. Take a quick peak at the forecast with the Search weather shortcut. http://tools.search./shortcuts/#loc_weather Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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