If you mention attention deficit hyper-activity disorder (ADHD) at a middle class Nairobi dinner table, you will get mixed reactions; the cynic ‘another disease, another reason to take pills and feed some pharmaceutical company my third world money…. no, thank you’; the psychosomatic, ‘oh my god, that’s sooo me!’ the skeptic, ‘does that really exist?’ and the chronically unaware, ‘Who is that?’ Patrice Penney is a child and family psychotherapist at Karen Surgery here in Nairobi and we caught up for a brief conversation on ADHD. What is ADHD? It is a disorder of self-control.....
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