oils for ADHD? Energy Healing can help.

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Hi, I don't always have time to read all the posts everyday, so I don't know

what has been said or not said, and i'm sure that this topic generates a lot

of emotions for some people. I have been working with children with ADHD and

Autism for years, first as a psychologist, and now as an energy healer. I got

out of the therapy end of treatment because it was so slow. The main

conventional treatments are medicine, behavior therapy, and cognitive

restructuring, in that order, and a distant fourth is some sort of family

therapy.

 

Nutritional therapy is usually not on the list at all, and other forms of

treatment are generally considered so outside of the " medical model " that they

are only mentioned in passing, or in an anecdotal fashion. While essential

oils can help, there are a lot of other areas that need to be explored first.

The child and the family are in chaos for the most part, and there usually

need to be a lot of changes, but they rarely happen and the kids and family

learn to manage somehow, but not really " get better " .

 

The first step, is to really understand what you are dealing with, as " ADHD "

or any sort of behavioral or emotional problem is a shape-shifter of sorts,

and evolves and changes in different kids and families, so reading up about

what ADHD is and isn't gives a baseline for understanding.

 

The criteria for diagnosis is in the DSM-IV, soon to be updated to DSM-V,

but there are a specific set or symptoms or criteria that the person who

diagnoses the child is looking for. The second step is reading about treatments,

both conventional and alternative, and keeping an open mind, because what works

for one child or family, may not work for others. There isn't a quick fix.

 

Many times foods contribute to a vulnerability that a child or family has,

and I keep mentioning " family " instead of just " child " on purpose, because

oftentimes, the child and his or her behavior are symptomatic of something

going

on within the family, and a poor diet would be something that the whole

family needs to focus on. Food allergies, food additives, dyes, chemicals are

all

potential culprits, sometimes things that don't bother most people, such as

wheat, eggs, milk or sugar need to be reduced or eliminated from the diet.

 

Essential oils are not really the first thing you would use, although there

are certainly those that will help with focus, concentration, or helping a

child feel calm and relaxed, but these don't really address the underlying

problems.

 

Food is one place to start, another huge one is family dynamics and

behavioral problems. Many times a child is the most vulnerable one in the

family, the

" weakest link " and they start having problems that look like ADHD because

the family is so stressed, due to marriage issues, money or finance problems,

communication problems, or other issues. The family is not able to deal with

whatever the problems are, so the sort of " transfer " their stresses to the

child and then, everyone can focus on the child as the " problem " instead of the

real problem(s).

 

I can't tell you how many parents would bring their child to me and tell me

all the problem he or she had, and want me to " fix " them. I'd do all the

tests, interview those involved, family, teachers, foster home personnel, law

enforcement, probation officers, court personnel (often - children that I saw

were court ordered to get therapy and treatment), and I'd be shocked at the

level of dysfunction in the family. But the family doesn't want to hear that Dad

needs to stop sleeping around, Mom needs to stop drinking and the uncle needs

to stop abusing the kids when he's alone with them. They, and all the other

people involved in primary care want medicine to dull the kid into a stupor.

And since ADHD is now categorized as a disability under federal law, there is

plenty of support for this position and state money to finance it, and it

leads everyone into thinking that all problems and pain should be handled by a

substance, whether legal and prescribed, or self medicated, such as street

drugs or alcohol.

 

I once worked at The Rose School in Washington DC and all the kids were

diagnosed with ADHD. This is an alternative school for kids who had been

expelled

from regular public school, and my patients ranged in age from 6-12. After

12, they were sent to another school and I sometimes couldn't sleep at night

wondering what kind of family lives these children endured.

 

What this taught me, in general, is that the family must be the first place

to begin to make changes, and diet come next, medication is to be very closely

monitored, prescribed for a short term while the other areas are explored.

What happens is that medication is the first and usually the last " treatment "

and explored.

 

What I slowly learned is that energy healing, and there are many forms of

this, some call it Reiki, others have different names, my personal slant is

that i'm a graduate of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, but not matter

what form, energy healing can help the family heal from the chaos and problems

they are experiencing, and the child, and his or her symptoms will change

gradually as the family gets healthier. I am not against any treatment,

medication, therapy, or any other, as they all serve their purposes and are

useful

for some people. But i'm really opposed to the medication first and last that I

used to see so often in practice. (I was also a public school teacher years

ago, when the ADHD epidemic was starting).

 

Essential oils can help, as can flower essences, by working vibrationally,

and this is actually in alignment with energy healing, but be careful about

placing all your hopes for miracle changes on one treatment without examining

all,or at least, many alternatives.

 

Anna White