WHAT MY CLIENTS SAY

I am writing this to inform any one that has had an experience like I did with my daughter.  My child was diagnosed with ADHD when she was in the 3rd grade which was 10 years ago.  (She repeated the 3rd grade because of this situation).  Ten years ago their was not a lot of studies and information on ADHD.  So our route was to medicate her with Adderall that helped her to achieve well socially and academically.  We were all happy well, that is for a while.  When she reached the 11th grade her medication had reached a large dosage (30mg twice a day of Adderall).  One day she just hit the wall.  Had a total melt down and crashed.  At this point I had not even heard of neurofeedback.  However, God had a plan for me and my daughter in a way that I only wished I would have known or had the choice earlier in her developmental years.  God answered so many prayers in a very real and direct path for me that weekend in regarding to  her melt-down.  After talking with a  Christian friend which  referred me to another friend who had experience with neurofeedback my discoveries unfolded quickly before my eyes.  I was lead by God to call a Phd  out of the blue on a Sunday at 1:00pm in the afternoon that was listed on the Web under Neurofeedback.   She spent several hours with me on the phone explaining different options but began to confirm to me that neurofeedback was probably going to give me the results that I was wanting for my daughter.   She gave me Margaret Gallagher's number.  My husband and I decided that we were going to  trust God in the leading into this new information.  We contacted Margaret Gallagher, aNeurofeedback specialist which got us into her office that Monday morning.  That morning I was in her office with my daughter (which I will say at this point was at her lowest of the lowest), she was very depressed, crying continually, and extremely anxious and to top it all off she was also having severe panic attacks.  When I entered Muggs office 'The Better Brain' I saw the plaque hanging on her wall that had the scripture Jeremiah 29:11  God states,  "For I know I have a plan and a purpose for your life declares the LORD."  I knew then this was the correct decision and God was going to take care of my little girl.  Prior to going to Muggs I had already called her school counselor and made arrangements for her to be out of school for at least 1 week or more.  She also was very involved with other school activities in which I had to make arrangements for my daughters absence. 

Muggs evaluated my daughter and began the first session of Neurofeedback.  I didn't really know if it would even effect my daughter because she was still in such an emotional state that I really didn't see how one session would even begin to help.  After she sat through the first adjustment of her brainwaves my daughter got up and said Mom I think I want to go to school.  My jaw dropped down to my knees and all I could do was to praise GOD.  She did return to school that day and made it through fairly well.  However, she had to go back in two days.  When we first started Neurofeedback my daughter needed it about every other day because she was so depleted from taking medication for so long and because the medicine that she had been taking was a disguise for what some of her real issues that were going on in her brain.  We actually discovered that she had been suffering from agitated depression for many years which gave off the symptoms of ADHD.  The Adderall was stimulating the Central Nervous System which allowed her to perform in school but it was not helping her brain deal with the agitated depression which is why she had her crash.  Her brain could not cope any longer.  We started going to Neurofeedback 4 times a week, went to 3 times then 2 times a week then once a week.  During this process she reduced her Adderall to 20 mg then to 10mg.  She got to the point where she would take her Adderall and say I "really do not like the way this medicine makes me feel".  She stopped taking it all together.  Her grades have stayed good and she is in so much more control of her life with her emotions and her focus on the activities that she is involved with.  She has a full load being a Junior in a very highly competitive prep school, taking AP classes, preparing for the ACT and the SAT test, being captain of her Cheerleading squad and doing her competitive cheering squad and teaching private lessons.  She has been able to balance it all and move forward everyday without the burden of the side-effects of Adderll. She is a very 'normal-functional' individual all because we chose to trust Gods leading into Neurofeedback.  I truly believe that this is Gods answer to helping anyone with any type of disorder in our brain without being medicated.  I am not saying medicine is wrong but there are other ways and this is Gods way. (Mother of a junior in high school)