ADHD and depression for four years, resistant to conventional medicine:
A nine-year-old boy arrived at a therapy camp run by the AUSWEGE Foundation with these diagnoses.
After eight days of treatment, his mother found him to be “completely symptom-free.” Our “HERZENSFONDS” covered his participation costs.
Niko*, 9, arrived at an “Auswege” camp with diagnoses of ADHD and juvenile depression. The cause was obvious: the boy was still suffering greatly from his parents’ separation four years earlier and their
conflict-ridden history. He was “emotionally very distressed,” as his mother, who had accompanied him, admitted – “anxious and depressed, with low frustration tolerance and impulse control.” Lack of concentration, learning difficulties, and disturbed social behavior made it difficult for him to attend school.
And so the mother organized a variety of appointments for her son with conventional doctors and therapists. So far, however, no one has attempted to tackle the root of the problem: healing the destructive family system, involving those primarily responsible, the mother and father. Niko feels torn between them. As one therapist noted, “Niko told me that he always has to spend the whole weekend with his father, which he doesn’t want to do: Dad talks badly about Mom. He says she’s a know-it-all, has bad manners, and stinks.” ‘In the evenings, Dad lies in his bed and cries. (…) It’s his own fault.‘ (…) I asked Niko if he could talk to his dad. He said, ‘No, I don’t want to make Dad sad.’”
One expert opinion probably hit the nail on the head: Niko’s “conspicuous behavior (…) should be understood by us as an attempt to cope, to find a meaningful solution to chronically problematic situations in his life context,” especially in his family life.
The AUSWEGE/WAYS OUT team of therapists was apparently highly successful in finding such a solution. As his mother stated in a questionnaire at the end of the program, Niko was “completely symptom-free” after nine intensive days at camp – without any psychotropic drugs. “He loves the whole team and doesn’t want to leave.” On an eleven-point rating scale from -5 (“much worse”) to 0 (“unchanged”) to +5 (“much better”), the mother gave the highest rating of +5 three times for the changes she observed in her son during the camp: in terms of his general condition as well as his physical and mental state.
A psychiatrist working at the camp was also impressed by Niko’s inner transformation: “During the camp, Niko showed that he is a completely normal and intelligent boy. His learning disability and ADHD could clearly be traced back to parental conflict.”
(* : Pseudonym)
(Harald Wiesendanger)
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