Scattered Minds Quotes

“La emoción divorciada del pensamiento es peligrosa, pero la vida humana es igualmente imposible cuando el pensamiento gobierna sin la emoción.”
― Gabor Maté, Mentes dispersas

“El cerebro humano es un producto de la naturaleza, pero también de la sociedad y la cultura.”
― Gabor Maté, Mentes dispersas

“Cuando tomé por primera vez un antidepresivo a los cuarenta años, me sorprendió la diferencia. Curiosamente, me sentía mucho más como yo mismo. Fue como si se hubiera evaporado una niebla y vi que durante los años anteriores solo había tenido atisbos periódicos de una vida no cargada de sentimientos negativos.”
― Gabor Maté, Mentes dispersas

“I do not believe ADD is the almost purely genetic condition many people assume it to be. I do not see it as a fixed, inherited brain disorder but as a physiological consequence of life in a particular environment, in a particular culture. In many ways one can grow out of it, at any age.”
― Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

“Es lamentable, pero cierto: nos volvemos mucho más estúpidos cuando llegamos a la edad adulta.”
― Gabor Maté, Mentes dispersas

“«Embriológica y anatómicamente, el ojo es una extensión del cerebro; es casi como si una porción del cerebro estuviera a la vista»”
― Gabor Maté, Mentes dispersas

“podemos hablar de un subdesarrollo de la inteligencia emocional.”
― Gabor Maté, Mentes dispersas

“Todos podríamos volvernos locos. Quizá ya lo hemos hecho.”
― Gabor Maté, Mentes dispersas

“Las consecuencias sociales a largo plazo de la ingesta masiva de fármacos para el tratamiento de la depresión, el déficit de atención y otras muchas afecciones aún no se conocen.”
― Gabor Maté, Mentes dispersas

“que hablan de un alma atribulada para la que la realidad ha resultado dura, tan dura que la mente se ha visto obligada a fragmentarse para dispersar el dolor.”
― Gabor Maté, Mentes dispersas

“«Estaría bien poder descansar de mí misma al menos durante un tiempo»,”
― Gabor Maté, Mentes dispersas

“For a complex developmental problem such as attention deficit disorder, the medical model is inadequate and inappropriate, except in the narrow area of pharmacological treatment.”
― Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

“is dominant in processing emotions and interpreting emotional stimuli. It responds to tone and body language rather than to the specific meanings of words.”
― Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

“implicit memory is the imprinting of brain circuits with the emotional content of early experiences”
― Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

“In everyday thought about especially complex and emotionally charged situations oversimplified generalizations are apt to be actively treasured. — DOROTHY DINNERSTEIN, The Mermaid and the Minotaur”
― Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

“only a mask behind which he hides his vulnerability from himself and from them.”
― Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

“In a minority of cases, especially in girls, hyperactivity may be absent altogether. They may go through school inattentive and absent-minded, but as they cause no trouble, they are “passed through” from grade to grade. While the finding of hyperactivity is not required for the diagnosis of ADD,”
― Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

“ADD is situational: in the same individual its expression may vary greatly from one circumstance to another. There are certain classes, for example, in which the ADD child may perform remarkably well, while in others she is scattered, unproductive and perhaps disruptive.”
― Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

“It is essential to demonstrate to such a child that his very existence is appreciated. The parent may put out this message verbally, but if she does not live the message by a commitment of time and energy, the child will receive mixed signals at best.”
― Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

“sexual abuse later in childhood causes ADD, but that the psychological atmosphere that later will make abuse possible is already present in infancy.”
― Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

“that task depends very much on what stress factors and coping skills they carry within themselves.”
― Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

“significant unconscious stresses which would have made their sensitive child emotionally insecure and interfered with the attunement process.”
― Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

“People can be deeply affected by unconscious anxieties and stresses they have no conscious knowledge of whatsoever.”
― Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

“While the explicit meaning of words spoken is analyzed in the left hemisphere, the right OFC interprets the emotional content of communications—the other person’s body language, eye movements and tone of voice.”
― Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

“People with ADD are hypersensitive. That is not a fault or a weakness of theirs, it is how they were born. It is their inborn temperament. That, primarily, is what is hereditary about ADD. Genetic inheritance by itself cannot account for the presence of ADD features in people, but heredity can make it far more likely that these features will emerge in a given individual, depending on circumstances. It is sensitivity, not a disorder, that is transmitted”
― Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

“Only two units of time exist for the small child: the now and the not-now. The not-now is infinity.”
― Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

“The child can feel secure with a parent whom he cannot reduce to his own level of functioning. When safety is established, growth takes place.”
― Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

“be partial flaws of development, to a greater or lesser degree, in just about everyone.”
― Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

“One of its major tasks is inhibition. It evaluates the myriad impressions, thoughts, sensations and impulses reaching it from the environment, from the body and from the lower brain centers.”
― Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

“One of its major tasks is inhibition. It evaluates the myriad impressions, thoughts,”
― Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder