I've been struggling with adhd for 10 years now. This is the first time EVER (along with the other parts of the lecture) that the disorder has been explained to me properly by someone else. I've consulted all manner of professionals, none gave me something remotely close to this. Nor have my parents or my close ones made any effort of actually listening or understanding when I, having done my research, explained it to them. As best i could. I find it incredibly infuriating that the best explanation ever given to me has come in the form of a youtube video i randomly found.

I wish my mother knew i had adhd. I wish I knew sooner i have adhd. I wish i knew sooner my child has adhd. Generations of parents not knowing how to parent children with adhd. There is hope now for me and my child thanks to this video series. Grateful.

@rickspalding3047

2 жыл бұрын

Most parents don't actually parent

@bennydaz1214

Жыл бұрын

It didn’t start with them, but it can stop with you - you’ll do great 😊

@Millie_dread

Жыл бұрын

Same. My parents still deny adhd and that I have it. It very sad and very very frustrating

@mikewilliamson2899

Жыл бұрын

The irony of my parents telling me as I grew up that “ADHD is just an excuse for bad parenting”

@Mar-dp9kf

Жыл бұрын

ADHD tends to run in the family. Your parents may have ADHD themselves and not understand that there is another way to handle it. All parents are doing their best with what tools of understanding they have. Every new generation comes with new hope. We can't fault the generations that came before us for not having what we have, just move forward with this new knowledge :)

My problem with task completion after a distraction isn't always that the other item/distraction is more compelling. I call it brain splitting- something gets broken in that chain and I often don't know how to return to the task. Or, it is literally fatiguing to try to return to the initial task.

@rickspalding3047

2 жыл бұрын

Same

@d-.-axx

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly Sharon, the way you summed that up just gave me the chills...

@emmab4441

2 жыл бұрын

I'm not so sure he means that you prefer the distraction in terms of your personal taste. I think he means that your brain will treat it as if it is "more attractive", regardless of how attractive/interesting you actually find it...if that makes sense. Every distraction you encounter will be treated with equal or more priority than your current task. So the brain will dump out some of the working memory to store info about this new thing. When you attempt to return to your task you've lost some of the working memory required to return immediately back to what you were doing. That is why it's frustrating to find your way back to the mental state you had pre-distraction. You have to refill your working memory with what you lost before beginning again.

@WildernessReader

Жыл бұрын

Exactly!

@robertunderdunkterwilliger2290

Жыл бұрын

I would call it de-railing of focus, but you summed it up really good.

It was hard not to weep in watching this. I exhibit every bit of this and find myself struggling in my career. I struggle to keep my thoughts in. Once expressed, I often forget those thoughts. When I’m distracted from a task, it feels impossible to come back to and complete.

This video hits like a freight train. I paused the video and immediately started taking notes after 45 seconds in. He says things that floored me. I had to pause the video and blow my nose as he started to get into the diagrams section. I didn't even realize I was crying. I truly felt seen for the first time when it comes to the inner workings of my own mind. I cannot wait to return to this videos and the others that are posted here to continue my notes. Thank you all for posting this. Oh what a world, haha :)

@christicepeda1264

4 ай бұрын

I can totally relate to what you're saying. I hate that others have to go through this! But I'm so grateful to know I'm not the only one to be this way! I definitely had problems with relationships because of not being able to control my emotions! 😢

I remember a fragment of a dream from my 20's, where I was talking to someone (I think my boss at the time) who said "Life is a journey." I distinctly remember retorting "Yeah? Well so far I've been trying to get through a dark, misty forest with no map or compass." I think my subconscious was trying to tell me something... "Persistence towards the Future." It would explain a lot. I don't think I have ever, in my nearly 40 years, been able to plan ahead any further than a year or two. Despite being "gifted," my peers have undoubtedly surpassed me because they could actually *see* ahead of themselves in time. I just don't seem able to, at least not very well.

@rickspalding3047

Жыл бұрын

I was like this until I read my Bible. Whatever you want to call it add, adhd, there is no time sensed. Guess what God works outside of time, and chasing the rat race until your dead isn't that important. I suggest read your bible for 30 minutes a day and I guarantee you will have a transformation

took me 3.5 hours to watch this video.

@leohonigman1862

4 жыл бұрын

And you succeeded.

@paolophachey59

3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations. Nicely done.

@felicityduijkersloot6043

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@kathvg

3 жыл бұрын

That’s how you know it applies to you

@themyrker9055

2 жыл бұрын

Speed it up to 1.75 😄

Who’s here from tiktok

What a relief to hear this as it has helped me understand myself so much better after you explained the executive function. I have battled with this all my life & had no understanding let alone frustrating people around me. I went for help in my mid 60's only to have this realised as I have suffered from clinical depression all my life. Felt my life has been wasted as I never reached my potential. I would rather switch off or daydream than tackle tasks to completion. Hope it is not too late to get it together. Ritalin & anti-depressant has helped immensely & cope with the day a great deal better. Am told I shall have to take them for the rest of my life but at least I can function. Being female & not as active & disruptive as males in class, we are below the radar to pick up any problems. This was not known those decades ago. Thank you for your wonderful talks.

@jerlovski

Жыл бұрын

Reinvent yourself it's never too late I believe in you.

@MelusMay-tn6zs

3 ай бұрын

True but did you know it’s been known at least in the 17 0r 1800s by a German doctor or scientist I can’t remember but it was called something different. So for people who think it’s a myth it’s not.

"this is a problem with persistent toward the future"

@giaomgia1779

3 жыл бұрын

1. I can relate! 2. If you make the best of the present every day, you shouldn’t worry about the future.

i’m currently procrastinating my assignments to watch this ..

Taken me 49 years to get to 30:00 in here...been diagnosed ADHD 16 years now, and nothing really helps. Tried Adderall, Ritalin, vyvanse. Seen lots of therapists. I work all the time, but I'm homeless. It sucks. I've always had a problem fitting in. I did real well in school til I went to college, then....wish I cared enough to do something or quit properly

@stevearnold8265

6 ай бұрын

40mg adderall is the max dose where I’m at. It doesn’t seem to be enough.

@ladytabernacle

2 ай бұрын

Gary Brecka on KZread, TikTok and Insta... Talks about ADHD deficincy in dopamine's base nutrients your body needs. I am trying that. Though the script for Automoxitine did help, the need to up my dose over a short time doesn't fit for me. I am gonna try to find methofolate and other metholated vitamins to help my body create the dopamine it's missing.

I'm 8 years late but just discovered this great lecture. Can you please set it up so people can translate it to other languages? I'd love to add the Spanish subtitles so I can share this with a whole community that can't access this knowledge in English.

I am so happy I found this channel!! I am trying to educate myself about this disorder and I think I found the golden ticket here. Wish I was a psych major in college. Fascinating stuff!

Lol. ADD forces me to refocus repeatedly. One word or phrase and my mind is gone down the rabbit hole. I have to recognize I am doing this, and pull myself back. Watching this video was no different. I simply learned how to make this "deficiency" work for me.

I agree with the ultimate goal aspect of what you are saying. I think that having adhd we seek immediate satisfaction with our actions and when we don’t see it we don’t continue. This is the time development which I find very relatable. I think time is a massive component of adhd and it is often overlooked in diagnosis. When people think they don’t have time for anything they have adhd for sure

i wish more parents to become aware of this, so that they wont be so frustrated at their children anymore. mine were convinced that if they punished me harder, i would learn to behave properly. they were ignorant and not very bright. if you are a parent and your child is having trouble focusing, dont let some overworked underpaid teacher tell you how to "manage" your kid. take some extra time to figure out what the problem is

@stevearnold8265

6 ай бұрын

Yeah mine were told I had Add and did nothing about it. “I don’t want you being all hyper on medication.” Aka she didn’t want to be personally inconvenienced with how she thinks I’d act on the medication vs me getting help focusing in school. I dropped out of high school because I couldn’t pay attention.

I think I have adhd, this video explains so much and why simple things are so complicated to get done some times.

I LOVE THIS MAN

The placement of the issues really makes my head banging for mental release understandable, finally, to me. I start medication on Monday, for the first time. I never wanted to take a medicine for the rest of my life to be “normal” but it is just getting too difficult to live in this world. So I’m giving meds a go. These lectures by Dr Russel Barkley are so informative. But as I was telling my husband about it, I couldn’t remember what Dr Barkley called it. Typical, lol. Executive Function Disorder, thank you for seeing it for what it is! I wish I had anyone in my life as intelligent and as compassionate as you, Dr! You are a rare breed 🙌💕

@stevearnold8265

6 ай бұрын

Did you get the medication and how is it going?

I started crying at 30:48 😭💔

@stephaniepoehling6132

2 жыл бұрын

I am so happy I am not the only one. When I have really bad days I feel myself not thinking or making choices. Not at all.

I've always wondered if I had ADHD, and hearing it rephrased as Executive Function Disorder sounds better. I'm 32 and have had 14 jobs and have "gone back to college" seven times. What I HAVE learned about myself, though... So far- Is that when I have external positive reinforcement or praise for a specific behavior or achievement I've done' whether by praise from another, or by seeing tangible results myself, I am glued and attracted to that path, behavior, or practice for MUCH longer. I began to think I'm just an egotistical person for requiring acknowledgement for my doings, but then... I realized we are all like that. It's just human nature. And the rest of the world just accepts it more easily because they see life from a different perspective. Perhaps there is a study on ADHD and its relationship with self-awareness and self role in social value? Perhaps the people who experience ADHD simply aren't interested in what they're doing because their subconscious doesn't accept or value the result from sticking with that action? The "reward" simply isn't there as it is for most. Their/our subconscious knows it.. And understands it before we have a chance to respond properly to the gi en situation. Instead, we react by investing our attention to something else. Why is that bad? We are just dismissing "staying on track" as those words hold value to society because we already know the end result in our involvement is boring or misaligned with our vision or purpose. Either that, or our brains are subconsciously avoiding discomfort in the actions we know we need to execute in order to manifest our dreams. Because the push forward of our vision isn't stronger than the pull back of our fears and insecurities. I don't believe in ADHD for 99% of provided diagnoses. I feel we are just human. And we just want the time and space to realize our own, unique potential. Society says we must obey rules and work 9-5, etc. What if ADHD isn't what we think it is? What if it's just "us" disagreeing with how the world works?

@SvayaG

Жыл бұрын

I've worked for multiple supervisors and the one I worked the hardest for was the one that would give me a genuine "you did a great job today, thank you" Dude said it all the time but he at least felt genuine vs how some of the others would say it. I'd be all happy like a golden retriever like "REALLY?! YOU'RE WELCOME I'LL KEEP DOING A GOOD JOB THANKS" 😅 felt dumb in a way but I apparently need that metaphorical "pat on the head" to keep doing a boring f-ing job

@michelleburstrom2548

Ай бұрын

So well said.

I’m so glad I turned my IPad on instead of doing what I told myself I would get done today. But don’t you think this is more important learning about myself? This video bin pointed everything!!!!! I will watch the other ones but I’m 6 hours and a day late for my chores. Lost for words: emotionally crying happy tears😂❤️ I’d like to know if a head injury could be a cause for it to drop down? Was wondering why I use to be so organized, and everything else etc.Then,, inch by inch,,,step by step. At the best I am so relieved now. To celebrate I’ve decided the chores can wait. Thank You🌹💥

Hi. Priceless video. Is there any chance that you allow to add subtitles in different languages. spanish would be the ones I swould like to do. I think you need to activate some settting option about community contributions. Thanks!

Thank you for sharing this lecture from this amazing insightgul professor. The way he speaks whilst using corect language and terminology but in a way it gently enters the ears my brain feels like it welcomes it in.. I get it, I undersand it and finally after years of not understanding why I think different and act different its my inability to regulate my emotions proportionately. If I could learn or change one thing It would be the ability to teach everyone around me what and how this man has just changed all I thought I knew! Take care all.

Good Talk. That leads up to the end redefining the... solution and "problem"... Make notes....

I love the neuroanatomy portion of this it's very informative and eye-opening especially concerning the cerebellum. The concern I have is that it doesn't really address the treatment of it as much other than peripherally regarding medication and direct intervention for communication/language concerns. I would love to see an update to this on how to best address these in treatment

@bennydaz1214

Жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/kaikpI97aKW-m5M.html hope this helps.

25:30 long term projects failing due to lack organization or smaller to larger thoughts and subsequent required behavior planning

The dumbest thing I’ve done because of adult adhd was forgetting to do my testosterone injection for 3 weeks straight when I’m supposed to do it twice a week. I had no libido, bouts of random confusion, insomnia, anhedonia etc and had no idea why😂

It's crazy to think that the only reason I'm learning about myself is because of access to information. I'd be screwed if I were born a decade early

And with all of this information and I still can’t even get the chance to try to address my adhd problems.

Could the acquired ADHD cases be those caused by complex PTSD? Hence more helped by treatments like Ketamine and IEMT / EMDR?

This was uploaded 8 years ago and adhd is still treated like adhd ppl are lazy, dumb, don't care enough etc. Some doctors and many therapist don't believe in adhd abd see it as false diagnosis (in germany) I sit here crying bc I now know that I have a f* spectrum disorder... I used to deny that it was a spectrum disorder bc I desperately want to do my best to be normal MY WAY! My head hurts with my knowledge that my occupational therapist colleagues don't really believe in adhd and know almost nothing about it... I am shattered right now... Bc they can't speak nor understand English well enough to educate themselves on this topic. In germany adhd is explained as lack of attention and physical restlessness. If you try your best looking for other information it will not be further explained as it's a dysregulation of dopamin. That's it!!! It's hard to find neurobiological explanations in german! I don't understand why germany is so far behind..

Thoughts on the name choices. I feel we should stick with executive function disorder instead of self regulation disorder. Self regulation has the same connotations as attention deficit, where self regulation and attention are generally seen as things that one has responsibility and can take blame for. I.e the classic line of "just focus" or "try harder" to focus applies in the same way to self regulation. Executive functioning disorder refers to a function of the brain being in deficit and doesn't have that connotation. You can't "try harder" to make up for a biological deficiency.

The original link with the full video doesn’t work - dead page. Can you please update it ? Also, is there any way to get the slides used by dr Barkley? I have ADHD and this seminar is really helping to understand what’s wrong with my brain

this is wholly unrelated to the topic but I'm REALLY interested to know whats going on with that "switching system between public/private self" in, like, "pdf files". People who offend vs people who don't, for example. INTERESTING REGARDLESS, thank you for posting these videos!

I am a carrier of the gene for the agenesis of the corpus callosum. I wonder if there is a link between that and my ADHD and Tourettes?

I ended up homeless because i chose to go to college

@williamclark6352

4 жыл бұрын

What do you mean by that? Can you please explain? Thanks

@badmonkey91

3 жыл бұрын

@@williamclark6352 I assume he means he has ADHD, took out massive debt to goto college. Failed out of college because of the challenges caused by ADHD in a college environment. And it crushed him financially.

So. Is it possible that ADHD can lead to migraine headaches?

I've been sent selective pieces of this guy's speech multiple times now, thru effing TikTok from my friends with ADHD. None of those people thought to go watch this guy's whole speech. PEOPLE WATCHING PARTS OF THIS GUY ON TIKTOK, FILMING IT, THEN POSTING IT... ON TIKTOK. I swear to gawd, some people who "identify as ADHD," have no desire to fix themselves, but completely happy to explain to everyone else why they are who they are and for everyone else to "deal with it." I've watched all 90 minutes of this speech, there's a lot of information here. Stop accepting your situation and do whatever you have to do. It might take years, might take a lifetime, but if you value life, spend the time and try to figure it out. Stop sending select videos on TikTok, this guy is truly trying to help. I have epilepsy onset as an adult. I have complex partial with secondary generalization that causes me to completely lose consciousness and fall to the floor between 90 seconds and 5 minutes. I do not convulse, it looks like I've dropped to the floor dead. It's scary for everyone. It happened in a restaurant with my kids and I thought I'd never see them again. Anyone could do anything to me while this happens. I could die in a swimming pool. The drugs are horrible, I've switched 4 times. It took three years to figure it out and how to live a normal life, and it's a ticking time bomb.

Dr. Ogden Wernstrom from Futurama?

@king92502

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahha I had to look it up. Just missing the pony tail.

Is there one for autism

I have motor ticks and occasional verbal ticks developed after a very intense illicit drug induced traumatic experience. They cleared up, except when under exceptional stress. I have ADHD and now have balance problems. I hope BDNF boosters like Ketamine, omega 3, ALCAR, lions main mushrooms, with therapies like IFS, IEMT, EMDR, specialist CBT will help.

i watch this in 1,25 speed(wish they had 1,35 speed(with 1,33 speed i could(i could watch stanfords(wow so in ...(anyway))))), good stuff here!!... oh yeah! watching them in 1.25 speed to not get destracted... i dont have!! erm.. fok... anyway really good stuff here!!!

A few years ago I came across some material or person espousing the concept of "acquired ADHD" . Does anyone know, if there's any basis for this theory?

@ProducerGio

8 жыл бұрын

+Wayne Royce AADHD is based on injury to any of the parts of the brain he explained. And the injury is severe enough to give you adhd like symptoms, symptoms you never had previous to injuery. Ergo it is acquired and not innate.

@wayneroyce8085

8 жыл бұрын

+Giovanny Jean, it seems to me, from all the evidence available, that most instances of ADHD are congenital. The genetic evidence that continues to emerge, confirms that inheritance plays an important role the disorder. Geneticists often state that there is a very high indication that epi-genetic triggers or switches play a major role. For example, there seems to be some correlation between maternal exposure to certain chemicals which increases the risk of their newborn child having ADHD.

@doomguy9049

7 жыл бұрын

Gio yes exposure to certain chemicals or blunt trauma etc can cause ADHD symptoms among many others by organic means. Lead exposure can cause attention and impulse control problems for example(as well as lowered IQ and other cognitive impairments).

@doomguy9049

7 жыл бұрын

Wayne Royce I had a genetic test basically to determine my ancestry then later ran it through a database of the most currently known and released info about genetic variants with effects on health, inherited traits etc and i had hundreds of gene alleles associated with ADHD among others.

@Justin-jj4zq

6 жыл бұрын

John Hall how does one get this genetic testing? Just from places like Ancestry? They just gave you all the raw results and you were free to compare them to these lists? Or you paid them to do that as well?

Acquired #adhd 😮

"EF TD & cash RDD"

i just have one issue with considering adhd a disorder. i observe animal's allot and it seems to me that most animal's are all practically adhd... especially if you observe monkeys or even cats. animals always seem to be distracted and shift there attention to some new variable that presents itself (usually noise or movement) that will catch there attention in some way and make them either curios or allert, and usually forget completely what they where doing before(a new priority popt up) animals are mostly reactive. there is no score system in nature of artificiale deadlines and money. animals always live the moment and thier planing(like buildings nests) is inate(hardwired in) wich means mostly subconscious and not really planed. for me this is not a difect but instead a survival habit/urge to always keep the individual allert about ones soroundings. i consider this the monkey mind or the primtive type mind, which i actually consider more adapted for survival within the old way of life (better sutted for survival having constant attention switching towards potential danger or opertunit of prey) when i observe people who can super focus on things, i also notice that they become completely unaware of there sroundings and tunneld visiond, which makes them really easy pray/targets. its always really easy to sneek up to these kind of people. whiles sneeking up to animal's is realy hard, most are always alert even when sleeping. i believe that people who seem to be able to ignore there sroundings better(the people that we seem to consider "normal functioning") for me these people where only able to develop and evolve into what they are because of the protection and benefits of what society and our collective effort provideded. threw the safety of structure and routine. in society, soruonding avernes isnt that beneficial anymore, instead super abilty to focus and specialisation without distraction is actually more advantageous now. this is why i seem to observe that citizens seem to be better planers, but are completely crapy at survival (they never seem to notice any sutle noises or movments that could mark the difrents between life and death in the wild)(animals are much better than citizens at individual survival) humans nowdays only survive because of collective effort. i have had the chance to meet many kinds of people and have noticed that people who have adhd seem to have minds more adapted to the old way of life(maybe they even tend to be more sporty) siting at a desk for hours is by no means normal in my view. i myself was diagnosed with dyslexia at a yung age and have an extremely bad working memory(its really bad) i have always been really bad at school (worst student) even drawing was hard for me because of my bad short term memory, which when i looked at the thing i was supposed to draw and then looked back at the canvis i would already forget what i looked at, and so when i draw im constantly looking back and forth very quickly just to refresh the memory. but, for some reason when i started gokarting(age 10) i became the best within my peers and older even tho i had the same exact problem of always forgetting what i saw! basically my quick constant looking around and double checking my soroundings is what made me good! i never relide on memory for too long and would never trust my memory much, this behaviour of mine is what i give credit to my success in karting because i was always 1st in the races and was the only one that would never have accidents., i would observe the crashes coused infront of me by my peers and i would notice that they would always turn into each other because of them never checking there soroundings and relying too much on their memory and flawed judgement. wiles my stile in driving was extremely risky and i was called crazy a few times (mothers of my friends wouldn't allow their children to race when i was in the race because they would freakout when they saw the speed i whent at and the risky maneuvers i would make,) even tho i karted all day every weekend for 3 years, and all i accumulated was a total of 0 crashes do to human error... 2 crash because of technical problems. (my hand weel came off when i was going full speed and about to turn, wich coused me to directly impact agiants the tires at full speed, wich then caused my kart and me in it, to sumersult/front flip forward and luckily the kart landed flat on its bottom...) anyway i digressed i just wanted to state that, i belive adhd at least for the genetic version, to just be a different kind of mind suited for different kinds of things, which is probably not the best adapt for society life stile, but probably could be more adapt to a different kind of environment. in society the norm is established by the mass, conforming to the mass is what people try to do to not be judged and picked on. the mass could be a bunch of morons wich could potentially condition some non moron to comform to the morons just to be considered ("normal") and so not targeted. we as a society force each other to conforme to the current public opinion standerds. in nature, any animal is allowed to diverge and evolve into something new and different, as long as its able to survive within its current environment. something that was adept in the past, probabily isent adept now. something that is adept now probably isnt adept for a past environment. what matters in nature is that you function somehow and find your niche in a constantly changing environment. no one is normal

@dareelantonio.3056

Жыл бұрын

You’re absolutely right. People with adhd tend to be more aware of their surroundings and environment. I read somewhere that we would thrive in the hunter gather days and also why we feels such a deep connection with nature and wanting to be outside. You see us people (adhd) often feel trapped or overwhelmed by the way society works because honestly it’s not meant for us , it’s not meant for how our brains work. Which is why is important you find something that works for you.

@s.danielleross1187

Жыл бұрын

A different type of mind for a different set of things is extremely dismissive of how debilitating ADHD can be.

@lanfear45

Жыл бұрын

@@s.danielleross1187 I concur. Try being unable to bathe, prepare food, brush your teeth, be on time, perform chores, and make those around you feel important (even if you do find them important), and tell me this is advantageous. No. I have problems and I literally cannot fix them right now. Maybe with enough training and therapy i can overcome my issues, but that is NOT healthy by default. Everything has a line, being more scatterbrained and able to absorb new info quickly is awesome for some things, as often said! These people might be those mentioned by Dr Barkley, those with ADHD symptoms, but not clinically diagnosable. Or those who function and take well to organization and habits. There are MANY of us whom don't fall in this category, where even the most basic of things everyone else takes for granted is simply impossible in day to day life.

@jake384100

3 ай бұрын

​@@s.danielleross1187 yes. A state of "functioning" is decided by the expectations society places on you. Not being able to function is an inability to do these things. I know ADHD can stop you from doing personal stuff too--- I have it--- but my point still stands. Any difference in neurological function can be better suited to different environments. ADHD is very hard to study, but even if the primary, chemical effects of ADHD are completely debilitating (which I don't believe, I think it has tradeoffs, just weird ones.) Processing information and your environment with this difference in neurological function can lead to a unique way of thinking or perspective.

Hey everyone I have adhd and I'd like to know a few things I don't think I understand, 1 can ADHDers hyper focus? 2 do I need meds? 3 is depression and anxiety ever gonna go away?

@Just.Jayson

Жыл бұрын

Yes - during the assessment period which my employer supported me through Hyper-vigilance was a symptom picked up for myself - strangely the more chaotic my workload more I feel as ease and remain productive its just a balance of ensuring it doesn't cross over into overworking and overloading which I tend to do when I the deregulation kicks in and I think I am letting people down or failing at life lol I would also say be careful some people take advantage of this symptom or ability and allow you to perhaps remain hyper focused if it benefits them - I could stay up for days if something new got my full attention like when finding a new artist which I have to know the whole story - pre story - life works and all the bits in between. :) oooops sorry for the essay!

I am 29 and have adult ADHD and find it difficult to function. As a child I was not symptomatic and nobody had the faintest idea that anything was wrong. I did well in school. When I got into middle school in sixth grade, something happened and I had constant, severe chronic headaches with pain primarily localized in the regions by the temples, and this persisted for 6 years along with symptoms like photophobia and phonophobia. At that point my school performance plummeted and my ADHD symptoms were masked by those headaches which people believed were responsible for everything until I was 18 on the verge of dropping out of high school (a specialized high school, marking my general good performance in-class and on tests; homework was forgiven on account of said headaches.) I had to pause the video at 5:32 and stare when he started describing the first region of the brain to talk about the first region of the brain affected. It's the site of my headaches. My headaches were thought to related to a condition involving the blood vessels (and I would go on to have blood-vessel related dysautonomia, namely POTS), but now I'm wondering if something about that blood flow and the headaches in some way affected the development of my brain. If it was related to the apparent sudden onset of my ADHD at that point of my life. It could be entirely unrelated, but... I can't help but wonder. My father also has ADHD, but he also reports having severe headaches for 2 years around that point in his life. He clearly had ADHD earlier than that in his life but... I don't know. I doubt I'll ever know. I don't even know what I'd do with the information, but I wish someone would tell me. It feels like my life fell apart when those headaches started and it never stopped. The combination of POTS and ADHD feels like too much too much to overcome. The ADHD demands that I strictly schedule myself and the POTS destroys my attempts at scheduling with symptoms that display inconsistently and can be debilitating.

@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago

Жыл бұрын

Have you ever had an MRI or a brain scan?? Something happened and you deserve to know what and that can only happen if a medical professional looks at your brain.

@TheLordGojira

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@@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago Oh yeah, I saw a looot of doctors in middle school (my poor parents… ended up trying a lot of alternatives too in desperation). Nobody was really able to see anything obvious at the time, unfortunately. Even if I were to go now, I don’t think there’s a real workable baseline to say if anything in particular happened. As Dr. Barkley notes, you can’t see ADHD on a scan for in individual, and even if you could we’d be blindly speculating what was going on before, and there’s nothing to do about it at this point. Thank you for your concern though.

@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago

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@@TheLordGojira I hear you. I was wondering if they could be tumors or lesions causing your symptoms. Just seems odd that something would start suddenly like that. Surely must a cause somewhere. I'm sorry you never found out what. That must be so frustrating. It's really hard not to get important answers to problems especially medical issues. I'm sorry you've had to live with that. I know I've been ADHD on and off since I was young, I did get some brain scans in my earlier twenties but now I'm wondering if they really showed what the technicians said they did. I got one of those fMRI's at a private ADHD clinic where they claimed they could see areas of disregulation. Now I have to wonder if the technology was as clear and indicative as I was told.

after 1 minute I'm on my phone

The irony of me watching this to try to find some answers but being on day 2 of trying to watch this and only being 10 minutes in because I can’t focus 💀

Why cannot the name be changed? Bipolar used to be called manic depression.

Is adhd a symptom or product of a modern society? I.E .... did it stem from vaccines, pesticides, exposure to chemicals from generational work environments, etc,? What evidence is there, that this is a genetic variant within the general human population through time. Could it be created or induced in people and at what stage could it be induced? Fetal, adolescent, adult or any stage.

@rickspalding3047

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Trauma created from child hood, typically from parents. I've fixed ost of my issues by reading the Bible. Sounds odd right? Well that trapped trauma which needs to be released and peter levine and gabor mate talke about parallels repenting in the Bible. I know most won't try it because they lack faith. But I suggest read your bible daily for 30 minutes

This man’s “bedside manner” really irks me.

This gives no indication that orbital and basal ganglia do anything different. Both just inhibit impulses, according to this.

Please do no listen to this BS! Thinking is NOT private action! Thinking and more specifically the synaptic wiring of the right frontal orbital cortex, right limbic system, amygdala, hippocampus, right insula, right anterior cingulate; HPA axis and autonomic nervous system (ventral and dorsal vagal complex) occurs epigenetically in the context of primary caregiver/child dyadic reciprocal affective attachment and attunment. Thinking is ONLY from in utero (esp., the last trimester) throughout the lifespan NOT private mentations but dynamic social-emotional affect co-regulated interactive communications. You are esposing pre 1970's nonsense, more cirminally you know this! If not let me may I be so kind as to offer a slight suggestion, begin reading into the paradigm shift neuroanatomy, neurophysiology developmental psychopathology, and so forth; especially right subcortical brain studies and associated evidence and thinking that dramatically took place in the mid 1990's, Ala, Jaak Panksepp, Allan Schore, Stephen Porges, Bruce Perry, Dan Siegal, Ed Tronick, Trevarthen, et al. Interpersonal Neurobiology, Polyvagal Theory, Interregulation Theory all the foregoing under a little itsy bitsy evidenced based driven phrase, Developmental Affective Neuroscience! You disgust me!

@rv5253

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@neilgs are you saying its aquired? I only know polyvagal theory out of what you mentiomed Could you rephrase your key points into undestandable sentences?

@Neilgs

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@@rv5253 I am saying the vast majority of diagnoses in DSM are fictitious. They serve the purposes of billions of profits in the disbursement of psychotropics on the one hand and insurance cos on the others Have you read, for example, the DSM 5 criteria for children with ADHD? Calling out of turn, squirming in one’s seat, messy organization, difficulty in executing tasks or following simple instructions, etc. How does this constitute a set of genetic-or neurobiological markers. Essentially, it is a wholly exploitative marketable descriptive analysis. There are different ways of learning, different ways of interacting. Human characteristics are not homogeneous but heterogeneous and Neurodiverse. Einstein being one penultimate illustration out of countless numbers of individuals . Having said that the relationship between subcortical and executive functioning is largely if not predominantly epigenetic. We now know that the mothers level of affective stress especially during the third trimester crosses the placenta and can and does affect brain development, ie, excessive cortisol, disproportional to cortisone if under great duress. Then post utero, with respect to healthy versus unhealthy attachment, secure, ambivalent anxious or avoidant or disorganized and insecure. Basically, the neuroregulation of our autonomic nervous system, does the child (or older) neuroceptively and interoceptively “feel” safe with others and his/get surrounding or is his/her autonomic nervous system adaptively sympathetically activated for fight/flight defensive behaviors or worse parasympathetic (dorsal vagas) withdrawal, shutdown or dissociation? All the foregoing affects the qualitative nature of interpersonal relatedness-and-attention and thus the strength, wiring and resiliency of the subcortical (e.g., overactive Amygdala) and executive functioning or prefrontal areas (e.g., decision-making). It is NOT in the drugs and it is not in the genetics.