Transcendental Meditation helps kids with ADHD
Interviewer: Part of what we’re doing here is we’re going to teach kids who have ADD to meditate and see how it helps. So, I want to get a sense of how ADD effects you. You have ADD? 
Scott: Yes. Interviewer: You know you’ve got it?
Scott: Yes. Interviewer: How can you tell?
Scott: Well, when I get frustrated, I get overly frustrated sometimes when I can’t do my work I shut down too easily and I sometimes just have problems overall working and just keeping my anger under control.
James: I can’t sit straight, like, sit there for a while and not fidget and I can’t concentrate for a long time and I can get distracted easily.
Ian: Sometimes it’s harder for me to read and pay attention in class.
Interviewer: Ok. And is that true at home too, when you’re trying to do homework? Ian: Yeah, trying to do homework is kind of tough too.
Interviewer: Let me ask you, do you know what stress is?
Taylor: Yes. Interviewer: Do you feel stressed, pressured, or tense?
Taylor: I have a lot, I always have a lot. Interviewer: A lot of stress? Tell me about that, when do you feel stressed, how do you feel stressed?
Taylor: Mostly when I’m doing homework, like I said, when I do something wrong, I could say I’m a lean, mean stress machine.
After 3 Months of T.M.
Practice Scott: It’s helped me with my schoolwork, not getting as frustrated with my friends and just not getting so angry with my parents, doing my homework better, not getting in so much fights at school, not getting people angry. Stuff like that.
James: It’s kind of easier for me to focus and concentrate my inner energy on one thing then be like going in trying to work and one thing and then fidgeting and trying to stop that and then listening to the teacher at the same time.
