As a fellow researcher, parent, guardian, nephew, uncle, carer I feel highly uncomfortable with the labeling system that has become a natural part of most societies.

Let us start a fresh with Children with ADHD. Instead of labeling them as 'Children with ADHD' why not call them 'Gifted', or 'Talented' or 'Highly focused', or 'Impressively able to multi task'?

The perspective that you use to look at ADHD will influence greatly your treatment of this biochemical imbalance and also the results that you are likely to get. Note that I use the word biochemical imbalance instead of dis-ease or disorder. Let me clarify that.

A dis-ease is defined by the Webster's dictionary as: a condition of the living animal or plant body or of one of its parts that impairs normal functioning. There are a lot of implicit meanings of the word dis-ease. It usually means that the person who is dis-eased is in some way or another 'not normal'. It implies that dis-ease requires some sort of treatment, and in the medical world that usually means having to take some form of medication. The word also implies sickness (ill health) when children with ADHD are apparently healthy except for their behaviours.

Disorder is also a misnomer because children with ADHD don't have really any part of them that is 'out of order'. Their brain functions may be different from that of other people, they may be hypersensitive, easily distracted, act on impulse but you have to remember that every body is built differently and as such require very individual care. So let us get the naming right, ADHD is at its simplest a condition of biochemical imbalance.

You can see how the use of language itself can greatly change the way we understand a condition as well as treat it. With regards to children with ADHD, the treatment is simply a balancing act (pardon the pun), a biochemical balancing act if you will.

So what are the different systems that maybe imbalanced in children with ADHD?

Here is a brief list