"The disorganized state that trauma may produ e can closely resemble the distracted state caused by ADD. In recent years, due tot he excellent work of investigators like Judith Herman and Bessel Van der Kolk, we have learned a great deal about emotional trauma. As more and more accoutns appear of childhood abuse, we are finding more and more people who have suffered trauma but have been unable to speak of it. One of the research questions that has yet to be answered is how much of an overlap exists between the population of people who have suffered trauma and developed dissociative states, and those people with ADD." (Hallowell and Ratey 2011)