We get a lot of questions and emails about anxiety disorders and ADD, attention deficit disorder.

One listener asks if ADD is simply a mental disorder or is their sin mixed in here?

And last time in episode 281 you addressed anxiety.

But you wanted to save ADD for a whole other episode, so let's talk about that today.

What would you say about this disorder?

The first thing I'd say when I'm thinking back now that what I said in the last podcast

about anxiety and the use of natural strategies as well as spiritual strategies to both cope

and flourish in our own limitations, that applies here big time as well.

Let's start with the definition.

This is really big and I have some exposure to it personally and I've read some about it.

So this is my best shot.

I'm not an expert in ADD, but here's what I understand it to be.

ADD, attention deficit disorder goes by other names as well, sometimes ADHD, is a brain configuration

that presents unusual challenges because of a combination of deficient focus and hyperfocus.

In other words, adults, their whole books on adult ADD as well as children, we used to

think of it as kids acting out in school in a certain way, but it's a brain condition

that may focus intensely on one thing for hours and be utterly oblivious of a whole bunch

of other things.

So there's a combination of hyperfocus and deficient focus and I would say this condition

in the brain and I suspect it is physiological, I don't know how all that works in terms

of the way the brain is patterned over time as a child, but yes, dimensions of physical

shaping in the brain has all the marks of the fall, like all of our brains and their deficiencies.

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