ADHD Related to Trauma?

Echo Malibu Youth Treatment Center has made a rather unusual discovery. Many of the young people who come to them with ADHD have suffered some sort of past trauma. As the trauma is treated, their ADHD symptoms improve.

"According to Dr. Jeff Nalin, a Clinical Psychologist and Co-Founder of ECHO Malibu Youth Treatment Center, '...The syndrome of behaviors that make up the diagnoses called ADD and ADHD are really primitive defense mechanisms related to these traumas.'"

The belief is that, as the past traumas are uncovered, confronted, and the child begins to heal from them, the need to "remain defended" decreases significantly, as do the ADD or ADHD behaviors.

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